Love Island earns ITV £12m before new series as advertisers jostle to take part

The most commercialised show on British television has signed up nine official partners

BuzzFeed valued at $1.5bn in deal to go public via special-purpose merger

News and digital media giant to use special purpose acquisition company (Spac) to go public and to acquire Complex for $300m

UK government’s plans for pre-9pm ban on junk food TV adverts criticised

New restrictions contain too many exemptions to affect rising levels of obesity, say campaigners

The Guardian view on privatising Channel 4: it makes no economic sense

Editorial: The arguments put forward for selling the broadcaster don’t add up. The impetus is ideological – and wrong-headed

Channel 4 privatisation proposal: ‘This could prove irreversible’

Broadcaster’s place in ‘fair system’ public-broadcasting overhaul is queried by its CEO

The great British broadcasting shake-up – all you need to know

Government TV changes include possible sale of Channel 4 and new rules governing streaming

Ministers will push to privatise Channel 4 in TV shake-up

End of an era looms for British broadcasting as government pushes ahead with plans to sell the channel

Ministers’ rationale for privatising Channel 4 looks extremely flimsy

The government’s stale plans for the broadcaster should be rejected in favour of cherishing it as a risk-taker

Is Steven Spielberg’s new Netflix deal a surprise? It’s surprising it took so long

Despite comments he made in the past, the director’s production company Amblin has signed a multi-picture deal with the streaming giant. Should cinephiles be worried?

Channel 4 privatisation – how would it work and who would buy it?

Selling off the publicly owned UK broadcaster could depend on changing its business model

Fears for future of American journalism as hedge funds flex power

Financial firms control half of US daily newspapers as pandemic worsens industry’s plight

Love Island predicts record revenues, but brands tread carefully after past tragedies

With mental health high on the agenda, ITV insists the reality show’s support for its contestants is the best in the world

ByteDance revenues more than double on back of TikTok boom

Owner of video-sharing app also reports a 93% increase in gross profit to $19bn in 2020

Coca-Cola’s Ronaldo fiasco highlights risk to brands in social media age

Stars like the Portugal captain, with 550m followers, are beyond the control of sport sponsors

Sony Music buys UK podcast producer Somethin’ Else

Sony Music is latest after Spotify, Amazon and Apple to try to cash in on boom in audio listening