SDN and QVC extend contract

ITV PLC 06 November 2007 November 6, 2007 For immediate release SDN and QVC extend Freeview carriage contract SDN Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ITV plc, announces today that it has extended its DTT carriage contract with the QVC channel until 2022. Jeff Henry, Managing Director of ITV Consumer said: 'SDN is delighted to renew its relationship with QVC. The contract extension underlines the on-going strength of the Freeview capacity market, providing for substantially improved terms for SDN, effective immediately, and longer term benefits for QVC including certainty of carriage on the UK's largest digital television platform - Freeview. The new arrangements will also continue to allow SDN to share in QVC's success as the market leading home shopping brand on Freeview.' Ends. Notes to editors SDN originally signed a carriage agreement with QVC in 2002 which was due to terminate in November 2010. This agreement has now been extended. About SDN SDN is a digital terrestrial television (DTT) multiplex operator, acquired by ITV plc in March 2005. It holds the licence from Ofcom to broadcast DTT channels over a specified bandwidth, and constitutes roughly a sixth of current DTT capacity. SDN derives its income from content providers who would like their channels to be broadcast to the nation's growing numbers of DTT homes. The channels are then marketed to consumers as part of the Freeview and Top Up TV services. Within SDN's current capacity of up to ten full videostreams, half is reserved under the 1996 Broadcasting Act for use by Five which broadcasts its three channels on DTT and sub-licenses the remainder of the capacity to Top Up TV. The other channels carried by SDN are Price Drop TV, Bid TV, Nuts TV, EMAP radio (Smash Hits & Mojo) and Teletext Holidays. About QVC QVC, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation attributed to the Liberty Interactive Group (Nasdaq: LINTA), is one of the largest multimedia retailers in the world, with annual revenue of more than $7 billion. Its programming is distributed to more than 166 million homes worldwide. QVC UK is the largest TV shopping channel in Britain with net sales of £331 million in 2006. It offers a wide variety of brand name products in apparel & beauty, jewellery, home innovation and home style. The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day, 364 days a year with 17 hours of live programming each day (from 09:00 to 02:00 UK time). QVC is available to over 21 million digital terrestrial, satellite and cable homes in the UK. QVC's website, www.qvcuk.com, was ranked 6th in the Hitwise Shopping & Classified - Department Stores category based on the market share of UK visits it received throughout 2006. For further enquiries please contact: ITV plc Tel: 0844 8818000 Press enquiries Hannah Bailey - Corporate Communications Manager Jim Godfrey - Director of Corporate Affairs Investor enquiries Georgina Blackburn - Head of Investor Relations Tulchan Communications Tel: 0207 353 4200 Andrew Grant Susannah Voyle David Allchurch Website: www.itv.com; investor information: www.itvplc.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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