ITV has confirmed it has accepted the offer from regulator Ofcom to renew all of its PSB licences.
The licences are being renewed for a full ten-year term until the end of 2034.
The Channel 3 licences cover all of ITV1’s output including ITV’s 13 nations and regions news franchises and the Channel 3 breakfast licence.
ITV’s CEO, Carolyn McCall said: “This provides us with the certainty we require to continue to invest for the long term in our broadcast and streaming businesses and in a wide range of high quality UK produced content at the heart of national life as a PSB.
“From our award winning national and regional news to our Daytime, entertainment, sports and reality shows our content both reflects culture and society and changes it for good and along with dramas like Mr Bates versus The Post Office highlights the enduring power and value of ITV and the PSBs.”
The licences are the C3 breakfast licence (broadcast as Good Morning Britain) plus the regional licences for UTV, Border, Tyne Tees, Yorkshire, Granada, Wales, Meridian, Channel, London, London Weekend, Meridian, Anglia Central and West Country.
