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By Stephen Foster on March 19, 2012
Mark Thompson (pictured) has been director-general of the BBC since 2004 when he came back to the corporation from a short stint at Channel 4 as the Beeb reeled from the enforced departure of Greg Dyke. Dyke, a former boss of London Weekend Television, has been forced out after the BBC governors, in effect the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan, BBC, bbc1, Caroline Thompson, Channel 4, director-general, dodgy dossier, Dr David Kelly, George Entwistle, Greg Dyke, Helen Boaden, iraq war, Jonathan Ross, Mark Thompson, media city, Peter Fincham, Robert Peston, Russell Brand, sachsgate, salford, sexed up, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on May 31, 2011
The X Factor off stage is much more entertaining than on it, unless you’re an ITV executive wondering if your prize ratings winner is going to implode. Which is probably what ITV programme boss Peter Fincham is worrying about this morning as the UK’s biggest terrestrial broadcaster has had to rush out a Tweet (an [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged American Idol, black eyed pea, channel 5, Cheryl Cole, destiny's child, fox, Gary Barlow, itv, Louis Walsh, n-dubz, Paula Abdul, Peter Fincham, programme boss, ratings, richard desmond, Simon Cowell, sky, Will.I.Am, X-Factor
By Stephen Foster on November 17, 2010
That’s not quite true, shareholders will be pleased that the price is up nearly 50 per cent year on year and that the company has reported an 11 per cent rise in revenues for the first nine months of 2010 (to £1.45bn), driven almost wholly by increased advertising (up 16 per cent in the third [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, Archie Norman, downton abbey, itv, Kevin Lygo, Peter Fincham, Simon Cowell, X-Factor
By Stephen Foster on May 12, 2010
The UK Competition Commission has decided to keep the Contract Rights Renewal system for ITV (which prevents the network jacking up prices for advertisers who reduce their spend) although it says it won’t stay ‘for ever.’ But why shouldn’t it? The way ITV sells airtime, via cosy deals with media agencies if they keep up [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, contract rights renewal, itv, Peter Fincham
By Stephen Foster on April 25, 2010
The Sunday Times Business News reports today that new ITV chairman Archie Norman, a veteran dealmaker, is eyeing a takeover of RTL-owned Five to boost his station’s share of the shrinking terrestrial ads market in the UK. Such a move would give ITV about 53 per cent of the market, thus making it even more [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Adam Crozier, Archie Norman, Five, itv, Peter Fincham, RTL
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