ITV axe 600 jobs; ad revenues fall

Link to article: Channel 4

Last Modified: 04 Mar 2009
By: Andrew Thomas

Six hundred jobs will go and a range of familiar programmes will be affected at ITV as part of a series of cutbacks.

Drama productions like The Bill, Heartbeat and The Royal all face cutbacks in response to a major fall in advertising revenue.

London and Leeds will lose the most jobs.

The broadcaster announced a big drop in profits for last year and said it would launch a programme of efficiency savings.