{"id":1019278,"date":"2026-07-07T08:42:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019278"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:23:04","slug":"itv-and-sky-reshape-british-tv-landscape-with-2-1-billion-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/07\/itv-and-sky-reshape-british-tv-landscape-with-2-1-billion-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV and Sky reshape British TV landscape with $2.1 billion deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Comcast&#8217;s Sky has agreed to buy the broadcast channels and streaming service of Britain&#8217;s ITV for \u00a31.6 billion ($2.13 \u200bbillion), creating a British champion with the scale \u200bto compete with global players like Netflix, Amazon and Disney. <\/p>\n<p>Sky CEO Dana Strong said the deal, announced on Monday and confirming a recent Reuters story, was a &#8220;defining moment&#8221;, one of the biggest in the history of British broadcasting. It will now face scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Comcast&#8217;s Sky has agreed to buy the broadcast channels and streaming service of Britain&#8217;s ITV for \u00a31.6 billion ($2.13 \u200bbillion), creating a British champion with the scale \u200bto compete with global players like Netflix, Amazon and Disney. Sky CEO Dana Strong said the deal, announced on Monday and confirming a recent Reuters story, was a &#8220;defining moment&#8221;, one of the biggest in the history of British broadcasting. It will now face scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019306,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019278\/revisions\/1019306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}