May sales dip means it’s time for ITV’s new management to start performing
ITV ad sales in May are predicted to fall back eight per cent in May after an increase in April, meaning that it’s time for ITV’s new management of CEO Adam Crozier and commercial boss Fru Hazlitt to...
View ArticleITV’s revenue set to plummet this summer as Simon Cowell talent show formats...
Everybody knew that ITV faced a hard summer after last year’s recovery – no World Cup and a UK advertising market being buffeted by little or no growth with the prospect of worse to come as coalition...
View ArticleChannel 5 owner Richard Desmond set to scupper ITV’s new sales team
Daily Express owner Richard Desmond has compiled a huge fortune by, among other things, not playing by the rules as they are understood by rival media owners. And now, as the new owner of Channel 5,...
View ArticleITV commercial boss Fru Hazlitt outlines radical new sales strategy
ITV CEO Adam Crozier and gal at the sharp end, managing director of commercial and online Fru Hazlitt, have revealed some more of their plan to move the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster away from...
View ArticleITV completes sales revamp with a severe case of verbal linguine
Fru Hazlitt and Simon Daglish have completed their revamp of UK terrestrial broadcaster ITV’s sales, losing a few people and gaining some. In so doing it seems to have concocted a dish of verbal...
View ArticleDigby in, Perry out as new C4 sales boss Jonathan Allan tries to find his...
New Channel 4 sales boss Jonathan Allan (pictured), who joined a month ago from Omnicom’s OMD where he was managing director, has wasted no time ringing the changes at the UK broadcaster. Head of...
View ArticleITV says it’s beating the UK TV ad market but where is the promised digital...
First the good news: ITV is slightly ahead of last year’s (good numbers) thanks to ads in programmes like X Factor and Downton Abbey and the strong autumn performance of the Rugby World Cup (which only...
View ArticleITV to pounce on struggling rivals STV and UTV?
The UK’s only two remaining independent terrestrial TV companies – STV which operates in Scotland and UTV Media in Northern Ireland – are both in the takeover frame following recent troubles. STV,...
View ArticleCrozier delivers at ITV as increased production revenues boost profits
ITV Boss Adam Crozier has delivered some of what he has been promising with 2011 profits up 14 per cent to £327m on a not-quite-so-exciting revenue increase of four per cent to £2.1bn. Hero of the hour...
View ArticleRoyal wedding boosts revenues at ITV and Thomas Cook as royalists and...
There’s nothing like a royal wedding for boosting advertising and indeed commerce in general, precisely because it stimulates both royalists and republicans to splash the cash. ITV is expecting its...
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