{"id":9602,"date":"2026-06-25T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=9602"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:56:02","slug":"sky-close-to-sealing-acquisition-of-itv-assets-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=9602","title":{"rendered":"Sky close to sealing acquisition of ITV assets \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is a complex task<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sky is closing in on a deal to acquire ITV\u2019s broadcast and streaming unit which will see ITV Studios take on Love Productions, the producer of The Great British Bake Off and The Piano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Comcast-owned company is finalising the \u00a31.6 billion offer with lawyers, according to sources close to the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Love Productions could be valued at between \u00a380-120m based on comparable deals, and an earn-out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A deal could be announced imminently, with one source cautioning that the timing could still slip due to final legal complications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Concluding the deal would end a saga that began last year, and became public in November when ITV said it was in talks to sell the unit, called Media &amp; Entertainment, to Sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It has involved the complex task of separating ITV\u2019s channels and streaming platform ITVX, which comprise the unit, from its production business ITV Studios, which will be a standalone company following completion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">ITV and Sky have declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Sky #close #sealing #acquisition #ITV #assets #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acquisition is a complex task Sky is closing in on a deal to acquire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[3467,1679,272,1419,10510,306,15576,6059,2609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}