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By Stephen Foster on October 3, 2011
New Channel 4 sales boss Jonathan Allan (pictured), who joined a month ago from Omnicom’s OMD where he was managing director, has wasted no time ringing the changes at the UK broadcaster. Head of airtime sales Mick Perry, who joined from Universal McCann just 18 months ago, is on his bike and Gary Digby, the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, Big Brother, Channel 4, channel 5, David Abraham, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, Jonathan Allan, media agency negotiations, Mick Perry, omd, richard desmond, sales director, tv ratings
By Stephen Foster on June 22, 2011
Fru Hazlitt and Simon Daglish have completed their revamp of UK terrestrial broadcaster ITV’s sales, losing a few people and gaining some. In so doing it seems to have concocted a dish of verbal linguine, a dish it’s easy to spill down your front if taken with meat sauce. Top promotion in the final (latest?) [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, boss strategic engagement director, deputy strategic engagement director, director of multiplatforms and partnerships itv, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, itv, itv sales revamp, job descriptions, managing director of commercial and online, new apps, Ross Faulkner, Rupert Howell, Simon Daglish, verbal linguine
By Stephen Foster on May 20, 2011
Daily Express owner Richard Desmond has compiled a huge fortune by, among other things, not playing by the rules as they are understood by rival media owners. And now, as the new owner of Channel 5, he’s about to scupper ITV’s intended rebirth by holding his sales director Kelly Williams, who’s planning to move to [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, Archie Norman, channel 5, daily express, Fru Hazlitt, gardening leave, Gary Digby, itv, Kelly Williams, non compete contract, richard desmond, Simon Daglish, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 1, 2011
Everybody knew that ITV faced a hard summer after last year’s recovery – no World Cup and a UK advertising market being buffeted by little or no growth with the prospect of worse to come as coalition government public sector cutbacks and higher taxes start to bite. But the biggest UK commercial broadcaster’s prospects look [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, Archie Norman, bollywood, britain's got talent, bskyb, Channel 4, channel 5, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, itv, Kelly Williams, news corporation, Piers Morgan, richard desmond, Simon Cowell, Simon Daglish, sky atlantic, star tv, X-Factor
By Stephen Foster on March 24, 2011
ITV ad sales in May are predicted to fall back eight per cent in May after an increase in April, meaning that it’s time for ITV’s new management of CEO Adam Crozier and commercial boss Fru Hazlitt to roll their sleeves up and start performing. New sales director Kelly Williams from Channel 5 won’t be [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, Archie Norman, channel 5, digital, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, George Osborne, itv, Kelly Williams, mad ad sales, richard desmond, Sainsburys, X-Factor
By Stephen Foster on March 2, 2011
ITV made £320m in pre-tax profits in 2010 and, more crucially, managed to reduce its debt from £612m to £188m and pension deficit from £436m to £313m. Even better for the dynamic duo of CEO Adam Crozier and chairman Archie Norman (and shareholders of course) it now has £860m in cash and ‘cash equivalents’ sitting [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, all3media, Archie Norman, downton abbey, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, itv, Kelly Williams, Michael Grade, Simon Daglish, Steve Morrison
By Stephen Foster on February 27, 2011
To put this into context, ITV’s anticipated pre-tax profits of £300m (due to be announced Wednesday) on a revenue of about £2bn nearly all come from the sale of TV spots (up 16 per cent over the course of the year and still booming away) and programme sales from ITV Studios. Digital revenues are expected [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged ad revenue, Adam Crozier, Archie Norman, digital, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, itv, itv studios, profits
By Stephen Foster on January 25, 2011
New ITV marketing boss Fru Hazlitt has been telling the Financial Times (registration required) how she intends to “wean” ITV away from its reliance on 30-second commercials (“hideously cyclical”) and make it the UK’s pre-eminent “marketing platform.” This apparently means boosting its online offer, securing partnerships with the likes of Facebook and encouraging more advertiser-funded [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged advertiser funded programming, facebook, financial times, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, gcap, Kelly Williams, myspace, online sales, Simon Daglish
By Stephen Foster on January 17, 2011
Has ITV gone completely barmy? That’s what many hardened media pros in London are asking themselves as they digest the implications of marketing boss Fru Hazlitt’s brutal clearout of sales director Gary Digby and his team, the allegedly old-fashioned bruisers who have brought a tidal wave of advertising money in the UK terrestrial broadcaster this [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, Archie Norman, Channel 4, Chris Locke, digital platform, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, guardian, itv, Kelly Williams, Marc Mendoza, Mark Sweney, Simon Daglish, tv sales
By Stephen Foster on January 14, 2011
As I recall ITV wasn’t one of the UK media owners that objected to News Corporation’s bid for the 61 per cent of pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB it doesn’t own (the broadcaster objectors included the BBC, Channel 4 and BT). But arguably ITV has been been the biggest loser from the remorseless rise of Sky, not [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, coalition government, competition commission, Gary Digby, Ian Edmondson, itv, Jeremy Hunt, Kelly Williams, news corporation, ofcom, Vince Cable
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