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Tag: ITV

  • Michael Grade’s ITV – now 20% smaller!

    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…

  • ITV: Michael Grade’s "Midas" touch

    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…

  • ITV: bad news bears

    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…

  • Death on TV: collaboration, complicity or collusion?

    The tea-cup sized trust storm enveloping Paul Watson and his documentary, Malcolm & Barbara: Love’s farewell, continues to brew. He was on the Today programme, Barbara Pointon talked to BBC News. (I chipped in briefly on News 24.) Watson’s film was made at the invitation of Mrs Pointon (husband Malcolm being unable to grant or…