ITN

This article is about the television production company in the United Kingdom. For the news programme broadcast on ITV produced by the company, see ITV News. For other uses, see ITN (disambiguation).

Independent Television News Limited
Company typePrivate company limited by shares
GenreMedia Production and News Broadcasting
Founded4 May 1955
(69 years ago) (1955-05-04)
FounderIndependent Television Authority
Headquarters200 Gray's Inn Road,
London
,
United Kingdom
Key people
Rachel Corp[1] (CEO)
RevenueIncrease £135.9 million (2019)
Increase £2.4 million (2019)
Increase £1.7 million (2018)
Total assetsIncrease £39 million (2019)
Total equityIncrease £105.4 million (2019)
Owners
Number of employees
706 (2019)
Websiteitn.co.uk
Footnotes / references
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Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based media production and broadcast journalism company. ITN is based in London, with bureaux and offices in Beijing, Brussels, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, New York, Paris, Sydney and Washington, D.C.

ITN produces the daily news programmes for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 in the UK, and in recent years has diversified to produce a wide range of content including documentaries, sports, advertising and digital material for a range of international clients.

Between 1955 and 1999, ITN was more commonly known as the general brand name of ITV's news programmes. Since 8 March 1999, ITV has used ITV News as the brand name for its news programmes, though ITN continues as the network's news provider. The network's largest franchise owner, ITV plc (through its Channel 3 franchising subsidiary ITV Broadcasting Limited),[2] is the largest shareholder of ITN, owning 40% of the company's shares. Other shareholders are Daily Mail and General Trust, Thomson Reuters and Informa plc, each owning 20% of shares.

  1. ^ "Deborah Turness appointed as ITN CEO". Archived from the original on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b "INDEPENDENT TELEVISION NEWS LIMITED persons with significant control – Find and update company information – GOV.UK". Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  3. ^ Annual Report 2019. Companies House. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  4. ^ Annual Report 2018. Companies House. 11 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Independent Television News Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 20 April 2020.