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ITV's new chairman is understood to be considering charging viewers for some channels as part of an overhaul. Archie Norman is thought to be mulling over a move into the pay-TV market as he prepares to take the reins early next year.
Tags: United Kingdom, Glasgow, Freeview, ITV Digital, ITV plc, Entertainment Culture, ITV, ITV3, ITV4
It conveys both his signature informality and the belief that he, like ITV’s Ant and Dec, is so famous that he needs no further introduction...He found the experience so frustrating he concluded he’d be the last. Mr Norman took over the helm of the stricken...
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ITV expects advertising revenues to grow in December for the first time in almost 18 months, but there was no word on its search for a new chairman. The beleaguered broadcaster surprised the market as it predicted a significant improvement in advertising...
Tags: ITV PLC, Cable & Wireless, ad revenues, human rights, advertising revenues, UK TV
ITV said today said it had terminated discussions with Tony Ball to become the broadcaster's new chief executive. The move means ITV will now have to go back to the drawing board in order to find a new chief to replace Michael Grade.
Tags: New ITV, ITV PLC, Tony Ball, Michael Grade, chief executive, itv chairman, digital television, television business, business sdn, Crispin Davis, United Kingdom, London
ITV could appoint Tony Ball as chief executive this week Former BSkyB chief Tony Ball to be discussed as candidate at ITV board meeting, with pay differences 'not insurmountable' Tony Ball. Photograph: Murdo Macleod ITV could ratify the appointment...
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Published in Company Comment on 6 August 2009 After shelling out a lofty £175m for it in 2005, ITV ( LSE: ITV ) today announced the sale of the Friends Reunited, the social networking site aimed at getting old school buddies and old workmates together,...
Tags: ITV PLC, Friends Reunited, social networking, networking sites, DC Thomson, itv sell, Beano, advertising revenues
The US executive search firm Russell Reynolds had been asked by the board "to look outside of the sector and outside the UK as well as inside the sector and inside the UK", the person added.
Tags: Elizabeth Murdoch, ITV Plc, Rupert Murdoch
The bank is expected to report profits for the first three months of the year of around £1.2 billion, even after impairment charges in excess of £2.2 billion. In the past few weeks City analysts have become increasingly confident about the bank’s prospects.
Tags: ITV Investors Approach Ball, chief executive, Mr Whittaker, ITV Plc, Michael Grade, executive officer
The beleaguered venture, which late last year lost chief executive Ashley Highfield barely four months into the job , has been deemed to pose to much of a threat to competition in the nascent UK video-on-demand market. The Competition Commission, which...
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SMG intends to call in a third-party auditor to disprove ITV plc's claim that its TV business, which operates the two ITV franchises for Scotland, does not pay enough for network programming such as Coronation Street. ITV plc claimed at its interim results...
Tags: ITV plc, ITV Productions, SMG, STV