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By Benjamin Cohen

Updated on 04 March 2009

Unions call for the government to step in to stop further damage to ITV's programme-making capacity, as it announced job cuts and studio closures.

With advertising revenues falling sharply across the board, the broadcaster's executive chairman, Michael Grade, said the cuts would ensure the company was in the "best possible shape" when the recession ended, and pointed out that its audience share was "inching upwards".

ITV has announced 600 job cuts and the closure of a Leeds studio as part of a drive for £155m worth of efficiency savings.

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