ITV News Channel to Close Friday

ITV has confirmed that it will close its news channel ‘ITV NEWS CHANNEL’ on Friday the 23rd December. The channel has been having difficulties keeping its audience, with stiff competition from channels like Sky News and BBC News 24. The news channel’s executive said "Following ITV’s announcement last week of a £2m investment in other areas of ITV’s news service we will be looking at the opportunities created by the expansion of our news gathering operation to re deploy as many staff as possible in the New Year." The channels existing staff are expected to be re-deployed to facilitate, news bulletins for ITVs ITV3, and ITV4 channels. DO

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