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Read Pogo's posting history. He was all over the Cineworld forum before their shares became worthless. He lost a fortune there.

He sees a drop in share price and assumes there has to be a bounce back. He is blind to the changes in consumer habits and fails to read the signs that a once successful business has failed to adapt fast enough.

"ITV shares are on vacation" and yet every summer for the last 2 years the Polska pontificator has bombarded this board with AI generated garbage and ludicrous predictions.

81p says the resident plonker. More chance of Putin and Netanyahu winning a Nobel Peace prize.

I do wish the resident plonker would learn to write shorter and more succinct posts.

Brief and to the point.

Endless AI generated waffle that makes no sense has become his modus operandi and it is about as useful as a Conservative party leadership contest.

Got to say I agree with Winnie on this one. Starmer is taking difficult choices but at least trying to do the right thing and be fiscally prudent. The NI taxes are damaging but benefits cuts and winter fuel cuts are the right decision. Cameron and Clegg made similar tough choices.

Farage will wreck the UK economy but sadly the UK majority like to lurch towards the right and commit economic suicide as they did with Brexit. Rishi Sunak was moving the UK back towards growth he just needed to raise more revenue but he lacked the popular vote to try and push it through.

Only reason I would vote for Farage would be if he offered to deport Pogo back to his country of origin and stop his benefits claims.

Yes ITV studios. Crozier prioritised investment in the studio part of ITV realising it was the future revenue generator. For the last 8 years the CEO and her many cronies have diverted investment away from the studios and into commissions for free to air and ITVX that are not generating anything like the return.

ITV should have taken Britbox to BBC and asked if as well as collaborating on an international offering they could have added ITV channels to the BBC's streaming platform. They would have accessed audiences 3x the size of ITVXs and saved considerable money.

Too many mistakes made in the last 8 years. Over at BP the shareholders get it. They are all angry at the Board and CEO for pursuing the wrong agenda. At ITV there are still too many sychophants and donkeys who still want to believe that sun shines out of McCall's backside.

More imbeciles will be along after this to make excuses for a SP that has more than halved in value

I am a lover, not a fighter. Anyone of the old codgers could meet with me in person and say whatever they like and I will shrug it off and buy them a drink.

The 500k share holding is going too far though. Do I really come across as that much of an imbecile that I would hold 500k in one stock only and one as badly managed as ITV? I would invite you all to kick me in the head until I saw sense if that was the case.

Play nicely Contrarian. You know that any mention of shorting sets the old codgers off.

Trolls? That would be someone who thinks that ITVX is a studio and that Senator McCain is alive and running some miniscule UK media company. Chair or CEO Pogo?

So much knowledge that is missing from a Pogo post. Basic stuff that he cannot get right. 500k shares my A. Lucky if he has enough to last to the end of the week and buy a sandwich for lunch.

Well played Contrarian. You have redirected all the old git / plodding donkey, venom and anger away from me to yourself.

The same imbeciles who fail to read the posts on here but come along with weak attempts to discredit the both of us. We are hardly the one person. Contrarian is very discreet and does not give away too much detail about himself other than he lives overseas and avoids the Labour governments tax raids.

Me I overshare. Proud south Londoner. Palace supporter. Lover of many women. Young fit and virile. The complete opposite of the old codgers who mostly inhabit this board.

I am the contributor here who has been calling the longest for the Dame to go. I was not even happy at 150. She had already lost 50p back in 2018. The imbeciles who hero worship her have excused failure for 8 years.

But no mention for my post from Winnie? I am disappointed. I used to be the focus of her attention. I rarely get the filtered posts after mine now. Contrarian has stolen her

Paragraphs are the least of Pogo's problems.

He has been cut and pasting the same AI generated nonsense for almost two years. None of it makes any sense. None of it is believeable.

Throw in his anti semitic slurs and hated of Russia and you have a full on imbecile. He would be an ideal guest to take to a Diner de Cons. Would win you first prize.

The Banjay takeover has been ongoing since 2023. Longer than Redbird. The stumbling block in 2023 was they wanted full ownership.

Bernard Arnault the owner of Banjay might face quite some opposition from Parliament so the Banjay bid is almost as impossible to get over the line as Redbird and its UAE owners......

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/11/28/billionaire-bernard-arnault-court-completely-unaware-ex-spy-chief-abused-powers-protect-lvmh/

There is still hope that the Iran DPRK bid will succeed

Jed, Carolyn is 63. She has made 20 million at ITV. She has failed to set the media world on fire. She will retire in the next two years. Hopefully in September once the birthday parties are done.

Yes Jed the BBC are not profitable but their streaming platform is 10x better than ITVX. As ITV studios provide so many shows now for the BBC the logical step would also be to share the digital platform with them. Maybe that would be to create a separate ITV channel option on iPlayer or maybe to mix it up by category and put a note at the beginning that the show or film contains adverts.

The Dame was too slow to integrate with BBC and has wasted 100s of millions on a streaming platform that has failed to reach the giddy heights that the Dame and her hangers on calimed it would reach.

Stop rewarding failure with ever increasing bonuses. Axe the Dame and her cronies and promote more capable staff from within ITV who do not come with the outrageous pay demands. McCall is one of the highest paid in the FTSE100 only this is a 250 company.

Wake up and smell the brown stuff.

ITVX launch

https://www.cityam.com/itvx-launch-the-streaming-service-hopes-to-win-back-youngsters-back/

ITV were projecting weekly viewing figures of 20 million by 2025...... Double what iPlayer was receiving

The reality is they are only at about 30% of the viewing hours that BBC get.

https://www.barb.co.uk/archive/aggregate-viewing-time-by-bvod-service-1-week-open/

Any other half decent leader would throw themselves on their sword. McCall spent 100s of millions on a failed initiative. At somepoint ITV will go to the BBC and ask them to host their shows as iPlayer is a more respected platform. BBC can then leave adverts in on the ITV content.

Stop investing in people who are abject failures!!!! People who only want to wrongly claim bonuses for performance that merits no reward

2017 1.59 Billion

2024 1.8 Billion

Your idol Carolyn has failed to grow the revenue. That just about covers inflation. In real terms it is falling

Every business has improved on what they did in 2020. The year of lockdown. Next you are going to prove to us that water runs downhill?

ITV advertising revenue in:

2017

Jed does a comparison with 2020 and yet 2020 was Covid year with lockdown and reduced sales revenue.

The advertising revenue has been falling for 8 years. Studios revenue has been climbing. The Dimwit CEO chose to invest in free to air and a digital platform where revenues will vanish in the next decade. Her predecesssor chose to build the studios which is what is keeping ITV share price where it is otherwise this would be a business facing a bleak future. Crozier knew his stuff. The Dame is blindly looking for any direction and opting for all the wrong investments.

Jed how is the BBC behind ITV? iPlayer has been around forever. Its viewing figures are way in excess of all the big streamers in the UK. When freeview is switched off in 2035 then it will be internet platforms only and ITVX can barely compete. Lucky if it makes it into the top 5.

That is why ITV is now only valued for its studio business. The other half of ITV's income will vanish in the next decade and the Dame has failed to grow the studio business. Wasted 8 years where the EZJ bandits have come in and milked ITV for their own profit whilst failing to serve employees and shareholders

Carolyn and her Cronies need to get the boot

Https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2enydkew3o

BBC article on the future of "Traditional British tv". Quite disturbing if you are an ITV holder so not for the senstive.

Anybody new and looking at ITV as a possilbe investment I would recommend reading the article. The future is bleak. It would make sense to merge all the existing free to air under the one streaming platform which would be iPlayer as it receives 10x and more the the viewers of ITVX.

Confirms what the city analysts knew in 2022 and what the old gits with failing brains are slow to cotton on to. ITVX is one massive vanity project that has squandered 100s of millions and will eventually be abandoned. The people behind that mistake will never make a Mea Culpa and will look to retire on million £ pensions.

Now this actually has me excited. Celebrity big brother and Jungle nonsense are tired old formats but the Traitors is so smart. For that reason they have attracted interesting characters. Stephen Fry, Jonathon Ross, Alan Carr, Charlotte Church, Kate Garraway, Celia Imrie.

Some very good acting talent who will be perfect for a show like this. They will create some legendary scenes.

If only ITV was making classy celebrity shows that the real A list stars wanted to appear on.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2enyjk407o