ITV

PR Week picks up on a Citigate report that puts numbers on the PR successes of CEOs in 2007.
The all-male, winning line-up?

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James Murdoch bought ITV shares for 135p not too long ago. Now, you and I can pick them up for about half that.
Murdoch didn’t exactly buy them hoping them to make a quick buck. But now he has moved to Wapping, how does one of his papers cover the ITV story? Dan Sabbagh plays a pretty […]

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News At Ten returned. With no commercial break. Deliberate? Permanent? Odd feeling in what was otherwise a very familiar programme package (well, I did work on it years ago). But down to business. You want an old-fashioned critique of an old-fashioned show? Start with the Bongs (the headlines).

Hasnat Khan exclusive/Diana
Georgina Edmonds murder
Antarctic special report
 Fabio Capello

Edmonds after Diana felt like […]

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Back on 28 November 2006, when Michael Grade walked in to 200 Grays Inn Road to take the ITV helm the share price stood at 110.75p. Today it was just 89.1p. That’s a drop of just under 20 percent, or as we say in journalism - nearly a fifth.
Of course, share prices can go up as […]

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Michael Grade. The scorecard so far:
1. Hires Dawn Airey
“I started my career there [ITV] and I worked there for just under 10 years. Whether or not I end my career there, who knows?”
2. Brings back News At Ten
“Maybe ITV are pandering [to Ofcom to get CRR changed], but if they think that is the price to get […]

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Two announcements today from ITV:
RDF is back in business as a supplier, subject to new compliance procedures - like don’t let your chief creative officer get his hands on any rushes - that kind of thing. That one certainly slipped out didn’t it? Nothing to do with timing…
And the Deloitte Report.
My favourite bit is the Jiggy Bank* competition […]

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