Company Announcements

ITV plc (the "Company")

Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting

Annual Report and Accounts

ITV released its Preliminary Announcement of annual results for the year ended 31 December 2020 on 9 March 2021. Further to the Preliminary Announcement, the Company can confirm that the 2020 Report and Accounts and Notice of 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) is now being made available to shareholders. The Report and Accounts is available on the Company's website at www.itvplc.com with the Notice of AGM and Form of Proxy at www.itvplc.com/investors/shareholder-information/AGM.

All of the material required to be communicated to the media in unedited full text through a Regulatory Information Service under DTR 6.3.5 was in the Preliminary Announcement issued on 9 March 2021 (other than the Directors' Responsibility statement, which is set out in the Appendix).  This material is not a substitute for reading the 2020 Report and Accounts in full.

AGM

The Company's 2021 AGM will be held at 11.00 a.m. on Thursday 29 April 2021 at 200 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8XZ.

Because of current UK government restrictions on public gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, shareholders will not be permitted to attend the AGM in person. If any shareholder does travel to attend the meeting, they will be denied access based on the prevailing circumstances. This is to ensure the safety of both our employees and shareholders.

The government's measures to help contain the spread of COVID-19 are of course subject to change and it may subsequently become possible to welcome a number of shareholders to the AGM. We will continue to monitor government guidance and any changes to the AGM arrangements as a result of new guidance, including welcoming shareholders to attend if this becomes possible within safety constraints, will be communicated as early as possible before the AGM by a notification on the Company's website and, where appropriate, by regulatory announcement.

As shareholders will not be able to attend in person, they are encouraged to vote in advance by appointing the Chairman as their proxy via www.myitvshares.com or by one of the other methods set out in the Notice of AGM and on the Company's website.

Shareholders are invited to watch the AGM via a live stream webinar and encouraged to submit questions in advance of the meeting. There will also be the opportunity to raise questions electronically during the meeting. Details of how shareholders can register and submit questions both in advance of and during the meeting are posted on the Company's website: www.itvplc.com/investors/shareholder-information/AGM. 

National Storage Mechanism

In compliance with LR 9.6.3, the following documents have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

·    2020 Report and Accounts

·    Notice of 2021 Annual General Meeting

·    Form of Proxy for 2021 Annual General Meeting

Gender Pay Gap Report

The ITV 2020 Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap Report is also now available on the Company's website www.itvplc.com/investors/governance. 

For further enquiries please contact:

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Appendix

This material should also be read in conjunction with, and is not a substitute for reading, the full 2020 Annual Report and Accounts.

Page references in the text of this Appendix refer to page numbers in the 2020 Annual Report and Accounts that can be viewed on the Company's website.

Directors' Responsibility statement

The following responsibility statement is repeated here to comply with DTR 6.3.5.  This statement relates to, and is extracted from, page 156 of the 2020 Annual Report and Accounts. Responsibility is for the full 2020 Annual Report and Accounts, not the extracted information presented in this announcement and the full year results announcement.

Each of the Directors, whose name and functions are listed on pages 90 and 91, confirm that, to the best of their knowledge: 

·    The financial statements, prepared in accordance with the applicable set of accounting standards, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, and

·    The Strategic Report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the issuer and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that they face.