The Briefing Room

Stars of the big and small screen now available exclusively from ITN Source

20 August 2009, ITN Source, the world’s leading provider of moving footage, has signed an exclusive international program clip archive representation deal with ITV Global Entertainment Ltd, adding tens of thousands of hours of classic television and film clip content to its collection. The agreement enables ITN Source to license ITV clips to its professional customer base including, programme makers, filmmakers, education publishers and advertising agencies.

ITN Source already represents Granada, Survival and LWT collections for ITV Global Entertainment. The new agreement extends rights to ITN Source to sell programme clips from all TV and film archive collections owned by ITV Global Entertainment, including Carlton, Central, ITC, 12 Yard and HTV. This includes classic programmes such as The Prisoner, The Saint, Thunderbirds, Spitting Image and Inspector Morse as well as recent hits such as Marple, Hell’s Kitchen and I’m a Celebrity…

ITV Global Entertainment is the owner of the world’s largest British feature-film library, incorporating the Rank, Rohauer, Romulus, Korda and ITC libraries. Under the new arrangement ITN Source will sell clips from the classic film library, which dates back to 1922 and comprises of more than 1,500 titles. The critically acclaimed collection features iconic stars including Richard Burton, Vivien Leigh, Sophia Loren and Laurence Olivier, directed by legends such as David Lean, Alfred Hitchcock and Powell and Pressburger.

Tobi de Graaff, Global Director, International TV Distribution from ITV Global Entertainment said: “ITN Source is an international power-house for short-clip distribution. We’re pleased to be announcing this extended relationship with the company, in bringing the very best clips from ITV Global Entertainment to broadcasters and producers worldwide.�

Ian CheeWah, Managing Director of ITN Source, North America, added: “The addition of the ITV collection to our existing one million hours of video enhances our vast entertainment archive. It also gives ITN Source the ability to provide compelling movie content across the full spectrum of media from traditional broadcast and film to advertising, digital media and the internet for the very first time, making us the number one choice for all professional footage needs.�

View the collection now at www.itnsource.com/partners/itv/ or contact the US Sales Office toll free on +1 888 385 0080.

For further media information contact:
John Nolan
ITN
Corporate Communications
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7430 4216
Email: John.Nolan@itn.co.uk

David Reiss
ITV Global Content
Corporate Communications
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7157 6186
Email: David.Reiss@ITV.com

About ITV Global Entertainment

ITV Global Entertainment Ltd is one of the world’s leading international TV distribution, home-entertainment, publishing, merchandising and licensing businesses. Based in London, Cologne, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Sydney, ITV Global Entertainment is an integrated part of ITV Global Content, led by Lee Bartlett, Managing Director.

About ITN Source

ITN Source is the gateway to over one million hours of iconic broadcast footage and creative moving imagery captured over three centuries. From news to drama, celebrity, comedy, music, wildlife, natural history and film, to an inspirational stock footage section.

ITN Source represents the world’s largest and most diverse catalogue of moving image libraries including, Reuters, ITN, ITV, UTV, ANI, Channel 9 News (Australia), Fox Movietone, and other specialist collections.

A digital leader in the archive industry, ITNSource.com offers customers the convenience of preview, licensing and download of broadcast quality content at the touch of a button. ITN Source also operates educationcliplibrary.com, featuring education focussed clips aimed at education publishers and broadcasters globally. It also runs Diagonal-View.com, a consumer facing offering packaging quirky clips for partners such as YouTube, MSN and MySpace attracting 30m views monthly.

With headquarters in London, ITN Source has sales offices in New York, Paris, Sydney and Tokyo. For further information, visit www.itnsource.com