Tag Archives: TV

‘Most people are boring’, claims ITV’s Fru Hazlitt

By October 19 2011, 2:50 pm 4 Comments

“UGC is a fallacy, most people are boring and no-one wants to read their stuff” – ITV’s Fru Halitt

X Factor’s ‘social glue’ keeps almost 12m tuned to ITV

By October 10 2011, 12:15 pm 1 Comment

Have to admit I’m still surprised by how much my personal Twitter feed filled with all things X Factor on Saturday night.

Granted most of the comments were either scathing put downs about the contestants, or were about the actual ads aired during the live talent contest (I have a bias feed),  but you can’t deny ITV’s singing juggernaut – now in its seventh series – has caught the imagination once again.
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Media agencies should be wary of Google’s TV agenda

By August 22 2011, 2:09 pm 5 Comments

Google’s Eric Schmidt says “the company that can offer the best integrated solution along those lines will get the majority of the customers”

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.”

Goodbye Andy Barnes: Channel 4’s commercial stalwart exits

By April 1 2011, 1:36 pm 2 Comments
So the rumours were true, Andy Barnes, the face of Channel 4’s commercial operations since it began selling its own airtime in 1993, is leaving the broadcaster.
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Have you tuned into the success of TV?

By January 30 2011, 10:01 am Leave a comment

Family crowd round TV

The success of television in 2010 proves yet again the inherent wisdom in Nietzsche’s over-used adage; what doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.

Television, let’s remind ourselves, especially ‘linear television’, is that media relic from the last century. Pictures and sound emanating from a box in your living room, scheduled to someone else’s timetable and convenience. Read more »

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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 »

GroupM to forecast 4% lift in UK ad spend for 2011

By November 19 2010, 11:21 am 4 Comments

Crystal Ball
It’s coming to that time of the year again when crystal balls are dusted off and the world’s media powerhouses pool their internal insights to give us their best predictions for the coming year.

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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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GroupM’s COI win ensures no one will profit from £250m media account

By February 10 2010, 3:48 pm Leave a comment

GroupM’s COI win last week guarantees that no one in the UK will benefit from the profits of the nation’s most valuable media buying business.

Lest we forget, Martin Sorrell’s WPP Group, parent to GroupM, officially left the country at the end of last year and set up its legal headquarters in the tax haven of Ireland.

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