The new rules could apply to any future mergers involving ITV or Channel 5.
Channel 5 declined to comment on the proposals until station chiefs had been able to look at their full implications.
Meanwhile, Channel 5 said it had removed two programmes from its schedule because of the ongoing "legal matter involving Rolf Harris".
The draw will be presented by Eamonn Holmes and shown in adverts on Saturday evenings on ITV 1 and Channel 5.
She will keep her day job at KTLA, Channel 5, where she is a reporter for daytime and evening news shows.
They will compete against The Apprentice, Come Dine With Me and Channel 5's reboot of Celebrity Big Brother for the reality award.
There was even talk of a merger with the privately-owned Channel 5.
It wants to find ways of trying to ensure that ITV1 and Channel 5 renew their licences and maintain some public service commitments.
YouView is backed by some of biggest names in British TV and broadband: the BBC, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, Arqiva and TalkTalk.
ENGADGET: BT to offer free YouView box with one-year broadband contract, ?49 for existing customers
Further Freeview channels from ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 will be available from local transmitters for the first time when the switchover is completed.
The autumn viewing season has arrived, with the first of the Saturday night blockbusters - ITV's X Factor - hard on the heels of Channel 5's Big Brother.
This year's judges included BBC One controller Lorraine Heggessey, Channel 4 head of entertainment and comedy Danielle Lux and Channel 5 director of programmes Kevin Lygo.
An award will be given for the best terrestrial and non-terrestrial channels at an event hosted by Channel 5 news presenter, Kirsty Young, on 24 August.
The Rock - which sees Connery play an Alcatraz escapee trying to thwart a terrorist attack on San Francisco - had Channel 5's third highest-ever audience.
Writer and jazz musician George Melly took the first tour at 2300, while Tim Marlow, presenter of Channel 5's recent programmes on Tate, took the midnight tour.
Ruth Watson, former star of The Hotel Inspector on Channel 5, hit out after The Crown and Castle in Orford was given a one-out-of-five food hygiene rating.
"I like the names: National Geographic, USA Today, People, Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, CNN, Associated Press, Channel 2, Channel 5, Channel 12 and so on, " he said.
And Channel 5 will have to provide more children's programmes.
Veteran action star Sean Connery helped Channel 5 to one of its biggest-ever audiences on Tuesday - when his film The Rock beat a BBC documentary on Geri Halliwell.
Viewers can watch KPIX's HD newscasts over the air on channel 5.1, on Comcast cable channel 705 on DirecTV on channel 5.1 and on Dish Network on channel 5.1.
ENGADGET: San Francisco's CBS affiliate (KPIX) flips newscasts to HD
ITN, a broadcasting institution as long-established as ITV itself, now provides bulletins for commercial broadcasters including Channel 4 and Channel 5, 250 commercial radio stations and several 24-hour news services.
In the Commons there was concern that the new laws would lead to a takeover of Channel 5 by Mr Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns 32% of the British newspaper market.
It has already seen off challenges for the Channel 4 and Channel 5 bulletins from BSkyB, the owner of Sky News, and it is confident of retaining its first and most important contract.
British broadcasters, led by the BBC, originally declined to air the Gaza appeal, but in the face of criticism from government ministers and others, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 changed their minds.
This part of the bill caused it to be delayed after an opposition challenge in the Lords to stop media magnates such as Rupert Murdoch being able to buy broadcasters such as Five, formerly Channel 5.
But Lord McIntosh for the government had urged peers to reject the amendment saying "there are a range of protections and controls that the bill puts in place in the event that Channel 5 grows to the size of ITV".
Across Long Island Sunday, many of the three million homes that make up a big chunk of the New York television market turned on Channel 5, their local Fox affiliate, hoping to see the NFL Giants take on the Detroit Lions.
The move follows the acquisition last year of blinkbox - recently voted the UK's best online movie service by Channel 5's The Gadget Show - and is the latest step in Tesco's strategy to offer customers new and innovative ways of accessing digital entertainment.
ENGADGET: So, Tesco buys Peter Gabriel's WE7 music service for $16.7 million
By relocating the bottleneck, the device can push full-motion video through its DVI or VGA ports at an unparalleled 1, 600 x 1, 200 resolution, channel 5.1 surround sound through the Toslink digital output, and operate peripherals connected to any of the five USB 2.0 connectors -- all while allowing your mouse cursor to function sans jerkiness.
ENGADGET: Belkin unveils ExpressCard Notebook Expansion Dock
应用推荐