Independent Television News, also known as ITN, is a privately owned company headquartered in the UK. Founded in 1955, and employing approximately 1,300 individuals, the company reported $183.6M in revenue as of 2025, functioning as a tier 1 media tech buyer. Its main product is media managed services. The company operates under a shared corporate ownership structure comprising ITV plc (40%), Daily Mail and General Trust (20%), Thomson Reuters (20%), and Informa plc (20%). It acts as a regulated third-party news provider for the UK's main commercial public service broadcasters, producing ITV News, Channel 4 News, and 5 News under distinct contract frameworks. Additionally, ITN operates a commercial division, ITN Productions, which generates factual content, sports television, documentaries, podcasts, and digital media for international streaming networks, linear channels, and corporate brands. The company also manages the ITN Archive, a digital and physical moving-image library encompassing over a million historical video assets captured since its inception, which it monetizes through B2B licensing partnerships and direct-to-consumer digital channels.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1955

Headcount

1,300

Headquarters

United Kingdom

Primary Segment

Media managed services

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

3

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Independent Television News (ITN) announced on June 23, 2026, a new initiative to expand its programmatic local linear TV platform by integrating Comscore's advanced and qualitative data into the ITN NXTv Programmatic Hub. This integration, expected later this year, aims to enable buyers to move more seamlessly from planning to activation with greater precision, accountability, and workflow efficiency. Previously, on May 25, ITN unveiled a major expansion of its YouTube presence, launching three new genre-led channels built around its 70-year-old archive and introducing its first YouTube Membership offering. As part of this direct-to-consumer strategy, the existing ITN Archive channel rebranded as Frontline by ITN, alongside newly created channels: Flashback by ITN and Re-Told by ITN, designed to turn decades of historical footage into destination content.

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Independent Television News offers 2 products in the media and telecoms services and media tech industries. Independent Television News's product portfolio comprises of media managed services and entertainment content rights.
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Independent Television News's revenues were less than $250M in 2025. Caretta Research has split Independent Television News's revenue into 2 different product categories, the largest of which is content production services. For full access to Independent Television News's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Independent Television News's customers primarily consist of broadcast television and radio companies. Examples of Independent Television News's customers include Channel 4, ITV and Channel 5. Independent Television News has commercial and technical partners like Grass Valley, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Avid. Examples of Independent Television News's suppliers include Amazon Web Services (AWS), HP and Adobe.

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