{"id":720856,"date":"2026-07-31T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720856\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:04:09","slug":"itv-announces-gbp-100-mln-share-buyback-after-sky-deal-as-itv-studios-reports-good-h1-revenue-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720856\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV announces GBP 100 mln share buyback after Sky deal as ITV Studios reports good H1 revenue growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        ITV announces GBP 100 mln share buyback after Sky deal as ITV Studios reports good H1 revenue growth<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-abstract line-clamp-2\" data-v-1e217f04=\"\">\n        UK broadcaster ITV has announced a GBP 100 million share buyback and said it is on track to fulfil its full-year guidance, thanks to &#8220;good&#8221; revenue growth at ITV Studios in the first six month of the year and &#8220;strong, profitable&#8221; digital revenue growth in the Media and Entertainment (M&amp;E) division. The buyback represents an early return of part of the GBP 950 million\u00a0due upon completion of the sale of the M&amp;E division to Sky, which is expected to happen in H2 2027. The scheme will run from 31 July 2026 to n\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV announces GBP 100 mln share buyback after Sky deal as ITV Studios reports good H1 revenue growth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720856","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=720856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}