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Time
Warner led consortium in ITV takeover bid
Beijing: A consortium led by
US media giant Time Warner Inc is mulling a $11.7 billion
takeover bid for a British television broadcaster ITV,
the news paper Mail on Sunday has reported.
The newspaper said the consortium includes
Time Warner, Goldman Sachs and private equity investors
Apax Partners. They are considering making the bid at
around 6.6 billion British pounds.
ITV, the result of the merger of Carlton Communications
and Granada production companies in 2002, debuted on the
London stock market last year.
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