Musicians engaged to work on television productions are invariably self-employed. You are therefore negotiating (directly or through a specialist music fixer) and paying fees, rather than salary or wages.

The industry agreement which should meet your needs is the one negotiated between the ITV Companies and the Musicians' Union (MU). However, you should note that, for sound-track and other music for drama and factual programmes, ITV Companies often prefer to make use of the agreement between the Producers' Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) and the MU. The MU does not usually object to this. The ITV-MU Agreement is mainly used for entertainment programmes.

The ITV-MU agreement provides for the engagement of arrangers and copyists, as well as musicians. Singers are engaged under the ITV-Equity agreement.

In appendices, the agreement allows for the dubbing of commercial discs into ITV programmes, and for the use of backing tracks.

Payment of the fees set out in the agreement gives the producing ITV Company the musician's consent to the use of the recorded performance in the programme, and the right to transmit the programme once in specified ITV regions. The agreement lays down additional fees to be paid for full network transmission.