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Article: HTV is the one to watch this year

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The Independent (London, England)
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January 7, 1996
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THE dramatic technological changes sweeping the world are having a ripple effect on all quoted companies, creating a host of exciting investment opportunities, not least in entertainment. This week we tip two to watch in 1996.

HTV, now at 288p, owns the ITV franchise for Wales and the West Country. This is a sound business with strategic attractions to bidders. But HTV is also reinventing itself with amazing speed as a programme maker and rights holder, supplying a booming market with a proliferation of new media outlets - so much so that in profits terms, the ITV franchise will soon be taking a back seat.

Something similar, in terms of a new activity propelling a wider group, has happened ...

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