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Richard Desmond still revels in the controversy

By June 15 2011, 1:41 pm Leave a comment

Why did Richard Desmond pull out of the Press Complaints Commission at the start of 2011? “Because I don’t want to be with a bunch of fucking phone hackers.”

ITV to lose the ‘nasty horrible face’ of Gary Digby

By January 10 2011, 2:49 pm Leave a comment

Today’s news that ITV’s sales boss Gary Digby is be replaced at the broadcaster by Channel 5’s Kelly Williams, courtesy of Maisie McCabe, has ensured 2011 gets off to a flier.

The new look ITV, led by chief executive Adam Crozier and chairman Archie Norman, but still housing Peter Fincham, is starting to take an exciting new shape. Read more »

Channel 5 star demonstrates Wright thinking about Desmond

By August 25 2010, 10:14 am Leave a comment

The impact that Channel 5 / Five’s new owner Richard Desmond will have on the terrestrial broadcaster is no mystery to one of its longest-standing talents, Matthew Wright.

In an interview with Associated’s Metro today, the star of 10-year-old show The Wright Stuff had no qualms about what Desmond’s arrival might mean for him.

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Silly Season disrupted by media onslaught

By August 19 2010, 11:15 am Leave a comment

I’ve just returned from somewhere suitably laid back, hot and isolated, where I found myself, for the first time in a long time, without phone or internet connection.

My media consumption has been restricted to the rather heady cocktail of international editions of the Daily Mail and CNBC; I may be fearful about the shrinking number of white mothers in the UK (why is no-one doing anything about this!), and have a growing hatred towards the “wasteful” BBC, but have a good grasp of the current financial drivers, and find myself wondering, is NASDAQ’s bearish trend pattern set to return?

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