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By Stephen Foster on February 24, 2012
The UK’s only two remaining independent terrestrial TV companies – STV which operates in Scotland and UTV Media in Northern Ireland – are both in the takeover frame following recent troubles. STV, formerly Scottish Television and best known for its long-running Taggart crime series – has slipped to a £900,000 loss following the £18m settlement [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, apple, Archie Norman, carlton, Fru Hazlitt, GMTV, granada, internet tv, itv, John McGuckian, legal action, Simon Daglish, stv, taggart, takeover, talksport, tvc holdings, utv
By Stephen Foster on November 14, 2011
First the good news: ITV is slightly ahead of last year’s (good numbers) thanks to ads in programmes like X Factor and Downton Abbey and the strong autumn performance of the Rugby World Cup (which only happens every four years of course). And the UK’s biggest free-to-air broadcaster is being run like a proper company [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, digital sales, downton abbey, facebook, friends reunited, Fru Hazlitt, google, itv, itv.com, myspace, profits, rugby world cup, Simon Daglish, X-Factor, yahoo
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 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 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
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