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Dawn Airey to join ITV as Director of Global Content

ITV today announced that Dawn Airey will join ITV as Director of
Global Content. In this role she will be responsible for developing
ITV's UK and international production, distribution and content
exploitation businesses.

Dawn will report to John Cresswell, ITV's Chief Operating Officer
and will take up the post later this year. ITV Productions, Granada
Ventures, Granada International and ITV's international production
businesses in Australia, Germany and the US will report into her.
Together, these businesses generated £652 million revenue in
2006, including £370 million of internal sales to ITV.

Of her appointment John Cresswell said:

"This is great news for ITV and a great job for Dawn. I'm
delighted she's joining us to build the content business which
continues to be at the heart of our growth strategy."

Dawn Airey said:

"It's wonderful to return to my alma mater. It's an incredibly
exciting time to be joining ITV and I'm looking forward to working
with some of the UK's best production talent. Together with John
Whiston and his creative team, I'm confident that we can deliver
the programmes and content that Simon Shaps and his commissioners
want in order to continue the reinvigoration of ITV1. ITV has
strong and growing international production and distribution
businesses and I'm thrilled about having the opportunity to help
develop them further."

Michael Grade, Executive Chairman of ITV plc, said:

"Dawn's arrival significantly strengthens the senior management
team. She is a dynamic, creative business leader and I know that
everyone in ITV will welcome her arrival."

John Whiston, Director of ITV Productions, said:

"I'm delighted and enthusiastic about Dawn's arrival. It
signals that ITV is putting content right at the heart of what it
does. It will require some serious firepower to take Production to
the next level both nationally and globally. And they don't come
much fierier than Dawn!"

ENDS

Notes to editors:

Dawn Airey

Dawn Airey began her broadcasting career as a management trainee
for Central TV in 1985. In 1989 she became Director of Programme
Planning at Central and was appointed to the Central broadcasting
board. In 1993 she moved to the ITV Network Centre as Controller of
Children's and Daytime Programmes and in 1994 moved to Channel 4 to
become Controller of Arts and Entertainment. In 1996 she was
appointed Director of Programmes for Channel Five and was promoted
to Chief Executive in 2000. In 2003 she was appointed Managing
Director Sky Networks and was responsible for all Sky wholly owned
channels (excluding sport). In 2006 she was made Managing Director
Channels and Services with responsibility for all third party
channels, joint ventures and networked media.

Dawn Airey was born in Lancashire in 1960 and was educated at Kelly
College and Girton College, Cambridge.

ITV Productions

ITV Productions is one of Europe's leading commercial production
companies producing more than 3,000 hours of original programming
each year. It is responsible for some of the most popular brands on
UK television including Coronation Street, Emmerdale, I'm A
Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! and Dancing On Ice. It also
produces highly-rated work for other channels such as The Street
and The Royle Family for the BBC, Brainiac for Sky and Countdown
and Longford for Channel 4. ITV Productions also made the
successful and critically acclaimed feature film, The Queen.

ITV's also runs successful international production businesses in
Australia, Germany and the US.

Granada International and Granada Ventures

Granada International sells thousands of hours of programming from
ITV Productions, and many other independent producers, to more than
200 countries worldwide. Granada Ventures is a major distributor of
DVD entertainment in the UK and exploits merchandising and
licensing in the UK and worldwide from both ITV Productions' bank
of television programmes and other independent rights owners.

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