Acceptance of OFCOM Terms for New Ten Year Licence

11 February 2014 UTV ACCEPTS OFCOM TERMS FOR NEW TEN YEAR LICENCE IN NORTHERN IRELAND UTV Media plc has today advised Ofcom that its subsidiary UTV Ltd (UTV) acceptsthe financial terms announced by Ofcom this morning for the renewal of itsregional Channel 3 licence in Northern Ireland for a further ten year periodcommencing 1 January 2015. John McCann, Group Chief Executive, UTV Media plc said: "Today's announcement is wonderful news for our staff and our business andensures UTV's continued investment in the local economy in Northern Ireland. "As a successful regional broadcaster we are totally committed to providing ouraudience with high quality public service programming in the future as we havefor more than 50 years." Michael Wilson, Managing Director, UTV said: "The commitment of our staff has never been stronger and the quality of ourregional output continues to enjoy some of the highest ratings in the whole ofthe UK. "Today's announcement ensures UTV can plan ahead to invest in high qualitypublic service content and in further technology to enable our content teams todeliver our programming on an ever increasing number of platforms. "We look forward to providing our audience with the same high standards ofnews, current affairs and programming that reflects the people and issues ofNorthern Ireland in the future." -Ends- For further information contact Orla McKibbin, head of Communications, UTV

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