** Northern Ireland broadcaster UTV's shares up 5.7pct after it said it was in talks to sell its television assets
** Media reports on the weekend said ITV is expectedto snap up the assets
** FTSE 100-listed ITV's shares fell as much as 4.5 pct
** UTV's new Irish TV channel has been performing below parand co expected to book nearly 12 mln pounds in losses
** UTV shares biggest gainer on the FTSE all share mediaindex (abhiram.nandakumar.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)