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Just picked up a few more on that pullback, I'm expecting to see a few upgrades finally after three years of continued downgrades. As I said a few days ago expect the market to play their games today and tomorrow but fingers crossed we can continue on the uptrend.

Numbers look good, nothing to worry about here and hopefully in the next day or so we can have another crack at that £1.40 !!

The article in the FT yesterday was titled, 'Television's looming car crash', a very good read indeed.

Around 21m shares traded today before the numbers in the morning, I have never seen such large volume the day before ITV figures and I have followed this company very closely since 2009.

Very interesting article in todays FT, page 21 if you can get your hands on it. It talks about the race with regards to subscription viewing and how many US companies, i.e. Amazon & Netflix need content as sooner or later as they are burning some serious cash with regards to production and have no back catalogue.

We've had the dotcom boom, the bitcoin boom...…….could we be about to witness the Media/TV boom as companies scramble for content.

Tomorrow could be very interesting indeed !

....for those whom missed it last week :-

https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/amazon-announces-new-french-amazon-original-interactive-dating-series-love-island

Roll on tomorrow !

And it wouldn't surprise me one bit, if in the next two trading days we see some sort of 'smash and grab' bear raid on the shares for this crocked market to pick up some cheap stock !

Who reads the Guardian...……...yes, the same people whom read the Sunday Times !!

And odds on the Sunday Times will also have some sort of negative press on ITV, just in time before Tuesday's numbers !

Boring !

Talking about speaking volumes, listen to last few podcasts from the board.

They speak volumes...………………….volumes of bull**** !

Can we stop referencing that Motley Numbnut on here, the site just wants exposure and doesn't add anything of value .

With regards to the Britbox Launch, have a cup of tea and read the official ITV announcement. What is even more interesting as well as the CBS/VIACOM/C5 mash up, the mention of BT & EE as partners.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks back will BT & ITV agree a deal with regards to live premiership & Champion league football and launch a collaboration via Britbox ? With BT losing its deal with Virgin yesterday, for me it looks increasingly likely ?

Here's the link :-

https://www.itv.com/presscentre/britbox/press-releases/brand-new-uk-streaming-service-britbox-open-business-partnerships-struck-channel-4-bt

Yep, nice news this morning and with the merger of CBS and Viacom (the owners of Channel 5) could there be more yet to come I wonder ?

…….'Its only a matter of time........before this becomes an AIM stock.

And we all know what happens to stocks when they get listed over there !!'

Looking to have a punt here when its down in single digits.

The bloke is a numpty, here's his write up only a few days ago:-

https://www.fool.co.uk/investing/2019/11/01/best-shares-for-november-2019/

Funny how all these lot suddenly become bearish before the interims, no doubt a few more blinkered broker notes will appear on trader's desks before next week.

But call it down as much as you like, I'm ready to pounce again on any sudden drops !

Yep, agreed. Looking nice and stable but as we know the market is in control so always expect the unexpected !

Just helped myself to a few more which I sold a couple of weeks back, the chart as we all know still shows £1.40 as the tough nut to crack and if and its a big 'IF' we can get through this level than past £1.42 there is nothing but blue skies ahead !!

Plenty more market shenanigans lie await ahead of the interims and the fact that Blackrock has bought back its stock and a few more, Berenberk Insecurites has issued another numpty sell note and no doubt the Sunday Times at the weekend will copy and paste another six month old bearish story about ITV.

Interesting at the weekend that the BBC drama 'His Dark materials' which is a collaboration with HBO cost around £40 million to produce. It does seem that these 'mega dramas' are now the way to attract the viewing public, could we see something similar with ITV ?

All looking good !

Doesn't make a great deal to the price to be honest, Blackrock have constantly 'lent' out the stock and hence the RNS with regards to their holdings decreasing and increasing over the last year or so. They have more or less around 5% of ITV shares.

Rugby World Cup final tomorrow and the ad breaks today during the coverage of the 3rd place Play-offs had quite a few American blue chip companies advertising their wares, namely Google, Amazon, MacDonald's, Ford, Apple and Peleton to name a few.

Nice.

Wow, I see these lot are up to their old tricks again. We all know about Britbox and how its supposed to be late to the party......blah....blah....blah...…..boring....boring...….boring !!

I started buying ITV shares from around 2009 and sold the lot in July 2015 and started accumulating shares again around this time last year and it was laughable at Berenberks coverage of ITV's stock over those years.

The issued a 'sell' recommendation on the stock at 92p in July 2013 and a buy recommendation on the stock at £2.70 in July 2015 with many 'sell' recommendations' in between !

And the same analyst is still in her job...……...her clients must love her !!

Market called the stock down this week so far and I just picked up a few after selling some last week. I'm in a few more either way from here, £1.25 looks good from a support level perspective and £1.40 is the tough nut to crack in a few weeks time.

Hopefully the interims will provide the fresh ammunition next week !

Nice.

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/10/28/itv-lands-just-eat-and-travel-republic-sponsors-love-island-and-take-me-out?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Yep, as already mentioned viewing figures for England v South Africa next weekend should top the most viewed rugby match on terrestrial tv since England's last World cup final against Australia. All bodes well for some last minute premium paid advertising and for re-negotiating ad slots for the 2020 Rugby Home Nations tournament.

Just read that Dancing on Ice has been bought by the Dutch so that's now nearly 20 territories signed up, with Love island also being re-commissioned in the US and Australia with a few other countries in the pipeline, that bodes well with Winter Love Island also being aired soon.

I'm a celebrity hits our screens next month, which is always welcomed this time of the year and with England's Euro qualifiers next month and the tournament itself in 2020, there's quite a lot to look forward.

And don't forget unlike so many of companies of late reporting over inflated profit figures and practicing dodging accounting (KPMG - On behalf of Goldman Sachs), around 85% of ITV'S revenues is in the form of cash !!

So all in all looking good, dividend yield also a bonus and with WPP reporting their best quarter advertising figures last week for the year the dark horizons now seem far away.

With Suchmyballsachs keeping a lid on the price (I think they may try calling it down this week) it still makes me wonder why? If Liberty don't want ITV and ballsachs are long of untold millions of shares in the company why not start moving the price North and then any interested parties will have to 'bid up' for the company.

Anyone notice the BT/ITV adverts of late...…...interesting ??

Anyway, that's enough from me but here's something else that could also prove a ratings winner come 2020 ! :-

https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/belgravia-series-trailer

I haven't bought back the stock I sold this week, was looking for a lower entry point and that 1.33 offer first thing this morning didn't last very long so happy to sit tight.

Bring on more fun and games tomorrow.

It was the Panorama programme on the BBC. You'll probably get it on the BBC iplayer and the conclusion was Woodford was just one of the many shoddy cowboys that has milked investors for years on end and will walk away with a nice handsome reward courtesy of all the investors he's fleeced over the years.

What was also really revealing and it all makes sense now was that the market commentator for the Daily Mail, Alex Brummer was absolutely seething and calling for Woodford's blood in a roundabout way, this after 'bigging him up' over the last three years in his personal finance section.

Everyday the Daily Mail Business on-line website used to run a story on Woodford and explained how your money could go a lot further if you invested in one of Woodford's funds, I could never get my head round it and gave up looking into it as I couldn't understand the logic here and had no idea what these companies were in which he invested.

Turns out Alex Brummer had tens of thousands invested in Woodford's ponzi scheme !

Oh dear, a market commentator talking up his own shares and now getting burned and crying wolf !

You couldn't make it up.

….should be an interesting watch. We all knew these lot were a bunch of bandits and it was just a question of when, never mind FCA failings, they're not bothered and don't even try the Financial Ombudsman either they're all in it together .

Just had a browse through the Companies house website and noticed the floating loan arrangement with Northern Trust, hopefully we'll find out a bit more tonight !

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09405653/charges