Finally. ITV has managed to fill one of its senior management roles after months of dithering and indecision. The broadcaster has hardly covered itself in glory in the whole shambolic episode but at least it has now managed to find someone to fill its chairman position. So what does Archie Norman bring...
It's quite something when a six month loss of £105m is considered surprisingly good news, but that's how I felt this morning when I saw ITV's interim results. Given the state of the economy, the ad market plus the absurd restrictions and regulations that the broadcaster is restrained by I...
Of course, internet access for all is really super. Hurrah. But the failure and misjudgement by Digital Britain on other big questions leave me totally underwhelmed. There's no progress on a Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide deal and the easy option of top slicing the BBC licence fee is a huge mistake...
Disappointment among octogenarians distressed that ITV isn't planning to make any more episodes of The Royal or Heartbeat must surely have been tempered by news that the BBC has re-commissioned a third series of its appallingly twee Lark Rise to Candleford. Now I like my Sunday TV viewing to be as...
Talking to contacts this morning in light of ITV's £2.7 billion losses, it's hard to detect too much sympathy around for those who control the broadcaster. Plenty for those among the 600 who will lose their jobs as it restructures but beyond that there is a feeling that ITV has played a part...
Sarah Messer, the head of commercial research and insight at ITV, is speaking about the tipping of the scales in control, back into the hands of the researchers. The question of control offers an interesting perspective for researchers, who Messer admitted, don’t yet have all the answers. Online audiences...
I have just come back from MIPCOM where the hot topics were branded entertainment, web and mobile as the new distribution channels and the impact of social networking. Social networking sites like Bebo are now creating original content, are they the new CBS and the new ITV? There were a few old TV guys...
Ofcom's proposals published today on public service broadcasting seem largely sensible, but its research claiming that people are willing to pay to see public service TV on a network other than the BBC holds no water. I don't buy it. No one is going to pay anything. Even in better economic times...
That was it? Someone should have said in advance that ITV1's big idea, its new improved 'exciting and engaging' programme, was to jump on the sleazy bandwagon and rake over Princess Diana's life with an 'exclusive' interview. I know there is an inquest running and it is front...
