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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 ...

With the recent MAA piece on the UK’s first TV ads I am reminded that I actually owe a great deal to Brian Palmer (creator of the Gibbs SR spot and a performer in another, see below) who was head ...

JWT has entered the lists of people mulling over 60 years of ITV and its mighty engine advertising – and has produced some rather startling ‘findings.’ Just over 1000 18+ adults were surveyed in September last year by JWT Intelligence ...

There is still plenty of evidence that the UK adland boom is motoring on: figures from the Advertising Association and WARC show that adspend hit a record £4.7bn in the first quarter of 2015 – up 8.2 per cent on ...

I note that ITV’s ad revenue continues to go up even as its audience share declines, ad revenue up 11 per cent to £1.7bn while audiences are down three per cent. Might this have something to do with the bizarre ...

How can you increase revenue and profits (by around eight per cent and 30 per cent respectively while your market share is falling? Run the UK’s biggest commercial terrestrial broadcaster of course. In other words, be ITV. ITV’s ad revenue, ...