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Coronation Street has been adorning ITV for a somewhat mind-boggling 57 years – still taking 40 per cent of the TV audience on some occasions – so it’s reasonable enough for the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster (in terms of audience ...

It’s hard to argue with the appointment of Carolyn McCall who’s succeeding Adam Crozier as CEO of ITV. For the past seven years McCall (below) has been running easyJet – where she’s done pretty well although easyJet is now suffering ...

Ever heard of Alex Mahon? Nope, me neither but she’s the new CEO of Channel 4. She’s the former boss of Shine, the producer Elizabeth Murdoch founded, and currently works for a Hollywood special effects company. Mahon (below) is well ...

ITV CEO Adam Crozier is leaving the company, rather sooner than expected, which leaves the UK’s two biggest ad-funded commercial broadcasters with vacancies at the top. Channel 4’s David Abraham announced in March that he was standing down. Both enjoyed ...

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 ...