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TV marketing body Thinkbox has been bigging up 2016 TV revenue figures – £5.28bn, a narrow 0.2 per cent increase over 2016 albeit only just. TV advertising slowed down in the wake of Brexit vote so it’s a pretty creditable ...

ITV has reported a 14 per cent fall in annual pre-tax profits to £553m as advertising revenues declined by three per cent. Underlying pre-tax profit was up slightly, from £843m to £847m helped by a 13 per cent increase from ...

ITV CEO Adam Crozier is joining Costa and Premier Inn owner Whitbread as a non-exec, suggesting that his exit from ITV might be more imminent than expected. New ITV chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette has hired headhunters Spencer Stuart to canvas ...

ITV has appointed content agency Somethin’ Else, to work on social media content alongside its in-house team for the upcoming series of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and future projects. The appointment follows a pitch earlier this ...

ITV continues to bring in the money – first half revenues up 11 per cent, profits by nine per cent – despite Brexit fears. CEO Adam Crozier (below) says he’s planning to cut costs by £25m to prepare for the ...

ITV’s pre-tax profits rose to £641m in 2015 – £843m on an ‘adjusted’ basis, which is a hell of an adjustment – with total revenue up 14 per cent to £3.38bn. Ad revenue rose six per cent to £1.72bn with ...

ITV has taken the rather brave step of appointing Sir Peter Bazalgette (below) as its new non-executive chairman, taking over from Archie Norman who oversaw the revival of the channel alongside CEO Adam Crozier. Bazalgette is well qualified: he sits ...

ITV shareholders may be in for a 2016 bonanza if the Mail on Sunday’s report that US giant Comcast, the biggest cable operator, is planning an £11bn bid for the British broadcaster via its NBC Universal film and television offshoot ...

ITV has secured a coup – or has it? – by poaching the BBC’s high profile economics editor Robert Peston (left) as its new political editor. Apparently Pesto is to present an ITV Sunday morning show, up against the Beeb’s ...