Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
ITVX launching in the 3rd Qtr has two platforms. The ITVX free platform will have adverts and will replace ITV hub, it has 9,000 hours of programmes which combines new and old and is 4,000 hours more or nearly double the current ITV hub. The Premium Service which will launch with 15,000 hours of advert free programmes will include BritBox which will cease to be.
The press have given ITV a hard time because they say the cost of it all will hit profits. ITVX free service has 9,000 hours f programmes, which is about 25% of the hours Netflix have. The Premium service has 15,000 which is about 47% of Netflix. ITVX has more hours than Disney+ Apple and Prime put together and offers a free service. People are watching their pennies so imo it is a cert to capture many of those leaving Netflix. I did a bit of research and at least 60% 0f Netflix is old stuff. McCall needs to do a big advertising campaign so it rolls out to a public who know it's free. Streaming also does not require a TV licence which is great for that age group 16-30....it will be a success!!
Why is ITVX utter madness, it is a free streaming service with 15,000 hours of TV in it's bank being launched as money gets tight and people are ditching subscriptions. Could be a raging success! The CNN streaming service is a News Channel and cannot be compared.
ITVX will get many of those who are ditching Netflix and others, more viewers will get more advertisers. They have written off ITVX with all the hubris they promoted Netflix. They follow each other like sheep, ITVX could be a huge success and with a share price of peanuts ITV are a raging BUY..
Peachy...do we have to have baby talk about turds and all. McCall is more switched on than you will ever be. She knows ITVX will suck up some of those ditching Netflix, Disney, Prime etc.
Best you put the turds in your mouth and tone down your kiddy talk!
Nige....SWS say 359p and others are somewhere from 95p to over 200p. The sp will break out and go to 120p in a couple of weeks. The drop has been falsely marked down, nobody thinks that ITVX is going to break ITV, it is ridiculous. If that is the best excuse those f***kers can come up, then it's a strong buy. Jeez if this was some tiddly little company with just a couple of soaps and a small studio they would give it more credence.
When posters like Porsche and his like are calling it '****' and 'doomed' it's time to BUY.
On a different note to Porsche's negativity, I just read a post on the ADVFN ITV thread from Simply Wall St that puts ITV at 359p...must be a misprint. A post points out the market caps of the other main TV companies. It's worth noting that ITV is valued at a pittance in comparison, something like a couple of percent of them.
Now I wouldn't suggest anything about bids as it would be pure spec. However when things are so obviously bombed out and laying discarded, history tells us someone somewhere notices and things can happen. As the old saying goes, has the time come to fill your boots. DYOR
Porsche....your post is just about as negative as it can get. We all know the FTSE isn't the NASDAQ or the Dow, so why do you need to whine about ITV and the UK Market. My response to the drivel you post is simple, I laugh at you because you are obviously a troll. Now do us all a favour and **** off!!
So Amazon are teaming up with MGM. Just read the link, all I can say is how dull can it get, MGM's catalogue of old movies have already been run on just about every broadcaster already. Hopefully ITVx new streaming service have more than enough to compete and if you don't mind adverts, it is free. How good is that for all those who in the very near future will be counting the pennies.
Anyone seen a little plus to ITVX....15,000 hours of TV that can be legally watched without a TV licence. May not seem a big thing but it is major for youngsters who watch TV on tablets and phones. The TV licence is £159 per year and youngsters are not paying it......maybe ITVX has caught the eye of the younger generation and it isn't all bad for ITVX, in fact it may be one of the best moves made by this board. How many are coming round to seeing many good things here.
Interesting posts guys, but I think we would all agree that ITV are absolutely the exact same company they were on Wednesday at close. So they have launched a plan to take on the streamers, well as far as I can fathom their ambitions, better now while they can. At the moment and among the 15-30 year olds they are seen as uncool. It is time for change and they are doing it.
I think that when this mad sell off is reflected upon and the City see that ITV are doing nothing more than being innovative, we can't slam the BoD for producing good results and having aspirations to make ITV a competitor in a fast changing market.
So Bournemouth Tom the harbinger of doom was like the clock that's right twice a day.
You talk of a bid of 110p to take out ITV...there is no chance that will happen. Over the last couple of days the volume traded has been maybe 100 million shares, buys two to one onnsells. Well, if you had bought every one of those buys and your name was Liberty, you still would be no where near a position to bid.
If the ITV board had not come up with a what the luddites see as a turkey, these would have stood well above a pound today, sadly changes to a staid old ITV is taboo even though their ITV hub is a winner . Just because the share has traded today at as low as 72p, really means nothing if a bidder appeared, it doesn't actually work that way. Institutions and funds do not dump millions of shares in a panic. All that as happened is the float out there has taken a drop, a paper loss is only a loss to a forced seller. Go by the words of the most successful investor in the world..“fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” said Warren Buffett, he has taken advantage of buying stocks when markets retreat and is a true billionaire to prove it.
Bigmouth Tom, like all stock pickin losers you cling on to slender hope that you will be accepted as a market wizard in the Sunday pub league. I am Premier Division and you will be proven wrong on Thursday 3/3/22.
I arranged for a block of concrete to delivered to your bedsit, get your wheelbarrow and trot on down to the pier. Good luck with the tide!
Is this prick Bournemouth Tom for real, I have been reading the drivel he posts and have come to the conclusion he needs to be certified. In all my experience of trolls, sad old Tom fits the bill. Been there, done that, me me me aren't I clever. Sorry Tom, you are just another dense bore craving attention.
Now try and raise your game, start by throwing your laptop off of Bournemouth Pier, followed by jumping in after it preferably with a 2 cwt concrete block around your neck.
The jungle drums are saying ITV results will be received well with a resumption of the dividend. Hope they are right! Also talk of an imminent takeover is still rife in media circles, that is what I am hearing so all those who scorn the info, just remember that it just reporting so don't give me any grief or stupid cries of 'nonsense'...Good Luck to all ITV holders!
Nige...It isn't a dead cert that Putin will invade, he may be playing up the anti as a way to make the West take notice. If it doesn't happen, markets will rebound with strength. If there is a war, the Ukrainians will fight back with all the force they are capable of, they won't just roll over. Putin will be weighing it all up, he won't want a hot war followed by another Cold war and heavy sanctions that could decimate the Russian economy.
If a war happens, markets will fall further but will come back within weeks if history repeats, ITV may suffer a 20% drop initially so it would be a good buying opportunity. Long suffering ITV holders will be thinking, every time it looks like ITV are going to break 125p, another setback not of their doing occurs. As Warren Buffett says buy when others are fearfull!!!
B..mouth Tom, pity that posh school didn't teach you better grammar. As a schoolboy you were very lucky to have an account and to be able to trade commodities. Most commodity brokers are belt and braces so you must have had a deck of dosh lodged with them because as you well know, if the client reneges, who takes the loss. Or could you sue a schoolboy back in your day of Tom Brown and Flashman?
Are you sure your margin calls weren't Mr Squelch rapping your knuckles with a margin rule!
Bournemouth Tom, why do you see ITV as a value trap? Just give me the reason without spinning a lot of meaningless rubbish. You really do post utter nonsense...the only trap I see is your trap opening and drivel flowing out.
Try using the old idiom, when you have nothing to say,,,say nothing!
Robs60 - I’m going to be blunt, I’m a straight talker - you won’t get an apology from me I’m afraid because I think that you’re full of BS.
An apology from you would mean nothing, you are not a straight talker, you are a loumouth full of yourself! I posted on here things I had heard and read, you could make up your own mind as to it being useful to you or not. I really don't need you to resort to telling me that I am bull****ting.
I have read many of your posts, some interesting and some notso. But whether I agree with you or not, I certainly would not have resorted to calling you a bull****ter. GFY.
Not one to normally criticise (apart from Tomtit the coffee maker) but you are talking deliberate nonsense. I noted your previous comment on the 19th January of
Anger & Janus...Apologies for mentioning what I had read and heard and I would never post deliberate nonsense. I am certainly not stupid enough to think that the mention of a rumour on a base public bulletin board could affect the price of a FTSE 100 share. But what is amazing is that you suggest that I may be stupid enough to even think my post could be ramping of the ITV sp and the other guy from Bournemouth who posts something you don't like is deramping.
Time you two grew up, if you don't agree with something, there are ways to critique without being condescending.
There are some whispers doing the rounds that UK media company ITV is being stalked by a US player. The mystery is that all the names coming up are the usual suspects of Netflix, Prime, Disney etc. The professionals in TV production say the UK has the best programme makers in the world, not my opinion, just fact.
Who would benefit greatly by acquiring ITV, it has studios, big catalogue, big viewing figures in the UK . But the big carrot after the studio sq footage would be the content in Britbox, it will be interesting to see those numbers on March 3rd.