ITV accused of not paying enough for repeats

For anyone who watches the ITV group of channels they will notice that there are quite a lot of repeats of older and some more recent programmes on the ITV2 and ITV3 channels.

But ITV are being accused by the maker of some these programmes of not paying the full amount for screening a repeat.

Excelsior Group Productions who make the popular programmes, The Darling Buds of May, and A Touch of Frost, are planning to sue ITV over the repeats after claiming that they have been cheated out of millions of pounds.

The problem lies in the royalty clauses, ITV are claiming that ITV2 and ITV3 are not part of the ITV network; this would mean that the programmes would be eligible for the full royalty payment.

In fact Excelsior is claiming that they received only £20,000 for over a hundred hours of programming.

This is a continuation of an issue that has been on-going for a number of years with regards to royalty payments.

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