{"id":264694,"date":"2025-11-15T17:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264694\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:59:17","slug":"turkish-reality-tv-king-ilicali-eyes-ipo-for-his-broadcaster-tv8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264694\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Reality-TV King Ilicali Eyes IPO for His Broadcaster TV8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Turkish media mogul Acun Ilicali, who built an entertainment franchise around taking global reality shows and adapting them for a local audience, is preparing to test investor appetite for his prime-time empire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tv8.com.tr\/\" title=\"Website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">TV8 TV Yayincilik AS<\/a>, the broadcaster behind Turkish versions of Survivor, MasterChef and some of the country\u2019s highest-grossing talent shows, has applied to the Capital Markets Board for an initial public offering. It plans to sell 35 million nominal shares, equal to about 20.5% of its equity, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/T5QAB7TP3SHS\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">IPO prospectusBloomberg Terminal<\/a>. Local brokerage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/INFO:TI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Info Yatirim AS<\/a> is managing the offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish media mogul Acun Ilicali, who built an entertainment franchise around taking global reality shows and adapting them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[14137,8790,96,218,109302,10028,467,3714,101,391,109301,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-264694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-capital-markets","tag-cities","tag-entertainment","tag-football","tag-info-yatirim-as","tag-ipos","tag-markets","tag-media","tag-sports","tag-tv","tag-tv8-tv-yayincilik-as","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}