News Broadcasting
News UK Broadcasting Limited, doing business as News Broadcasting and formerly known as Wireless Group Limited and previously UTV Media, is a radio and digital broadcasting network with headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland and with radio operations in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. It currently operates five stations in Ireland and 18 in the UK. The company was formerly known as UTV Media, owned by UTV Television. Its television broadcasting services were sold to ITV plc in February 2016 and its radio, sales services and websites were spun off into a new company, Wireless, later purchased by News Corp.
"UTV Group" redirects here. For the channel formerly operated by the company, see UTV (TV channel). For other uses, see UTV.News Broadcasting
UTV Media, Wireless Group Limited
Broadcasting
7 June 2007
(as Beechgrove Trading Limited)
Scott Taunton
(Chief Executive)
£116 m (2014)[1]
In June 2016, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp reached an agreement to buy the company.[2][3] The sale was completed in September 2016.[4] Prior to the acquisition, Wireless Group was a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index.