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Clive Jones
Michael Grade has saved his first salary with the departure of Clive Jones. Not one to mince words, in closing the ITV News Channel Jones famously told newsroom staffers that it was “a bleeding sore”. Jones was one of the last of the regional news barons who rose through ITV‘s ranks without stopping at ITN.…
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Murder
ITV News bested the BBC tonight. Crime is their thing and they set about it with grim determination. Yes, the word grim … you will have heard it repeated a few times this evening. ITN are there when the bodies are found, they have the Paula Clennell interview. On the scene Mark Austin holds things…
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TV News – who gives a Ross?
In television, I think we should start talking about the cost of what we do in Rosses – Jonathan Rosses. Just to refresh your memory, Jonathan takes home/homes about six million quid a year. So ITV News costs £35 million, that’s a six Ross deal. Channel 4 News is about £20 million, just over three…
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Sky-TN
The news that Sky are buying into ITV makes me a little nervous for ITN. Admittedly £940 million is a big chunk of change and a pootling £35 million a year in savings by dumping your news provider is nothing, but… [MG]