{"id":2141104,"date":"2025-11-07T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2141104"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:58:43","slug":"itv-in-talks-to-sell-networks-arm-to-comcast-owned-sky-for-2-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/itv-in-talks-to-sell-networks-arm-to-comcast-owned-sky-for-2-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV in Talks to Sell Networks Arm to Comcast-Owned Sky for $2.1 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.K. broadcaster ITV<\/a> has confirmed it has received a \u00a31.6 billion ($2.1 billion) bid from Comcast<\/a>\u2019s pay-tv platform Sky for its media and entertainment unit.<\/p>\n

The shock news \u2014 which would fundamentally change the British broadcasting landscape if it were to go ahead \u2014 would see Comcast take control of ITV\u2019s linear channels and Itvx<\/a> streaming business, significantly expanding its U.K. TV foothold, having already acquired Sky for around $30 billion in 2018.<\/p>\n

According to news reports, the bid from Sky centers on the potential creation of a U.K.-focused streaming giant.<\/p>\n

In a short statement sent Friday morning, ITV said…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.K. broadcaster ITV has confirmed it has received a \u00a31.6 billion ($2.1 billion) bid from Comcast\u2019s pay-tv platform Sky for its media and entertainment unit. The shock news \u2014 which would fundamentally change the British broadcasting landscape if it were to go ahead \u2014 would see Comcast take control of ITV\u2019s linear channels and Itvx […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2141105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2141104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ITV-in-Talks-to-Sell-Networks-Arm-to-Comcast-Owned-Sky.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141106,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141104\/revisions\/2141106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}