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Lon­don Busi­ness School: David Cur­rie, out­go­ing Ofcom (UK broadcast/digital reg­u­lator) chairman.

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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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ITV">Two views of ITV

April 22, 2008

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 straight bat […]

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Breaks off News At Ten

January 14, 2008

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 […]

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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 […]

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