So all external to ITV. Nothing happened since March within ITV that has created a negative impression of the company and the ability of their CEO?
You cannot be seen to post anything negative about ITV employees.
Is the Dame worth the 3.5 million in your opinion?
Poker do you ever post anything negative about McCall and the share price crash which she has brought about or does your contract of employment forbid that?
Poker is very much ITV plant. One of their investor relations people sent to the board to allay fears and stop the panic selling.
Of course if you are at ITV you are looking at 2024 and how to gorw income. Those of us outside looking in are waiting on the Full Year Results and analysts presentation. Other than an RTS conference and the AGM it is one of the few times we here from the CEO and chief financial officer.
Poker of course gets the internal emails from them.
Dividend cannot go up as that would mean borrowing. If it is cut then the CEO and Board know their jobs are very much likely to go.
The rapid fall over the last week suggests investors fear the worst for results day. It really needs something to halt this downward trend but nothing the Dame has done in 6 years has led to long term reversal. The suggestion of selling part of the studios was only ever a ruse.
I cannot see what else the Dame can bring now to next weeks results. More of the same. Same figures. Same deflection and denial. Same old business suits and boring old business men and women. The presentation with answers and questions last year was very stage managed. Nobody gets to ask anything too probing and as we saw from the select committee, the Dame is full on deception and outright lies.
ITV is very beige. Nothing. Absolutely nothing to get excited about. Jed gets excited by a brown paper bag.
the dame just comes into work and cracks open champagne. no time to read letters, emails or address investors concerns over the share price. she is busy get rat ****d with the many celebs on the payroll, who then take off in the late afternoon to their apartments without junior hires from the production team (carolyn has stopped that culture).
anyway itv4 and x have come up trumps tonight. coventry vs maidstone. as a bromley season ticket holder i kind of want maidstone to get slaughtered but they are the underdog and that makes for a great story.
I see 56.74. If it continues for the next 7 sessions like this then the SP could potentially be 50p before the Dame issues a statment or does anything to halt this collapse.
To be fair 1 week before results is probably not allowed by LSE rules but really the work should have been put in here between interims and now to allay investor concerns.
Yet again the very normal Carolyn did nothing. In the Apprentice she would be out by episode 2 or 3 once everyone spotted she just blends into the scenery and does precious little.
Why buy out ITV now? Just let the Dame do another 5 years and the share price will be 5p. Maybe the British taxpayer can get ITV for free and tag it on to BBC.
The share price. Lets ignore that. 7% down in a month. Heading towards 56p. Still the Board issue no statement.
Lets talk about buyout and mergers in far flung countries instead and pretend there is no crisis here.
McCall OUT!
Pogo is an apologist for a liar and an incompetent business leader whose inaction have wiped billions off the value of a company that employs 10,000s in the UK.
Pogo is an apologist for a leader who is a front for ultra nationalists that has seen the economy of one of Europe's poorest nations ruined for no perceivable gain as Russia is now weeks away from a victory.
Pogo backs failure.
4 years too late to launch ITVX.
3 years too late to tackle an employee with an unhealthy interest in young men.
6 years too late to tackle a fall in confidence in ITV and a Share price crash.
Carolyn is sleep walking her way through her tenure. Crisis after crises and she cannot provide leadership.
Https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12141457/How-did-3-5m-ITV-boss-Dame-Carolyn-McCall-know-Phillip-Schofield-scandal.html
So in an old Daily Mail article, it was reported that Kelvin MacKenzie tweeted about a meeting with McCall over Schofield in 2020.
"He tweeted about a so-called secret meeting three years ago, which he says was held with executives from The Sun over Schofield and his sexuality. MacKenzie claims Ms McCall was at the meeting"
So everyone was telling her that Schofield was abusing junior staff. It took his coworkers to refuse to work with someone who had covered up child sexual abuse in 2023 for her to do anything. In those 3 years Willoughby and others who were still told to keep up the appearance of being Schofields friend were subjected to a press witch hunt (skipping the queue for the Queen in state). The Dame's inability to take swift action led to the ITV stars in his close proximity being tarred with the same abuser tag by the media.
No chance. I was too busy with Pokerchips exploring alternative lifestyles.
I was hoping it was the work of Jed and finally my hard work here had paid off but alas he still sticks to the message that the Great leader knows best. Maybe Solley finally saw sense and came over to the other side although I have never known Solley to be in any way humorous.
Narcissistic behaviour? I am just capable of seeing the pain that it causes to other people. Schofield's wife seems a very decent person. Eamonn Holmes and other coworkers have pointed out that Phil off screen was controlling and bullying. Nasty piece of work. Taking phone numbers from 13 year old children and then using them once they reach adulthood.
Sorry but no way he should have been left in a position of power at ITV. Toxic issues.
I am happy with my Russian woman but thanks for the offer. You and Pogo can enjoy the cruising scene. Try to stay safe.
Just what the board needed. A circle jerk between smug posters who want to believe they understand the markets.
Poker if you want to know what happens between two men in hotel rooms then sorry but I am not an authority. I suggest maybe you go to a sauna frequented by men. Maybe take Pogo with you for moral support. Ask the men there to demonstrate to you what Schofield takes young men to hotel rooms for.
So Baldy posts that I have trod a fine line but have stayed within the law. That LSE are liable only everything I have posted has been "within the law". That LSE are aware of someone posting things which are within the law. That he/she has me on filter.
So yet another of the shrill detractors who follow me around the board feels the need to pipe up yet again. Nothing to add to the debate but just digs at myself with requests to be banned.
Baldy was the one who started the false misogynist claim about me. Totally groundless, but in their world nobody can criticise the presentation of a female CEO as that is a hate crime.
Baldy has previously said they do not support democracy and the need to seek a majority vote. They favour Putin style leadership where dissident voices are silenced.
Poker you really need to get up to speed. Everything has been reported by the tabloids last summer. Try searching on "Schofield" "Playtime".
Chauffeurs, security and just about everyone witnessed Schofield and the runner repeatedly go off to apartments and hotel rooms to play scrabble after the shows had finished.....
Everybody knew. The whitewash enquiry said only one junior employee knew.
Oh and Poker outside of criminal cases there is no presumption of innocence. No need to prove beyond doubt that what you say happened actually happened.
Balance of evidence. A judge would make a decision and given Schofield's admission of a relationship, the payment and chauffeurs saying they dropped both off at hotel rooms toegther there is little to no wriggle room for Schofield. He abused an ITV employee. The Dame ignored that like she ignores the Share Price and investors.
I love that Pokerchips told me to watch the analysts presentation.....
Go to March 2nd 2023. (switch to 100 posts per page. Page 27). One individual is all over the results presentation. Watching the livestream and relaying the Dame's points to this forum as they happened. Lots of gems about how Planet V was bringing new advertisers to the digital platform that previously never advertised on TV.
Then this gem from yours truly which sparked all the claims that I am a misogynist because I have better fashion sense than Carolyn.
"The thing that worried me most was how and where they delivered the presentation. The Dame wears terrible brown colours. Initially she and the CFO were stood in front on a cheap office partition. They then sat down at a desk but there was a gathering of senior staff which consisted of mostly old white guys in suits (no ties) huddled in a corner.
You have city analysts tuning in to see a cheap production. Surely someone in ITV can put together a better backdrop and maybe even a studio set next time? They also need to get the wardrobe department to dress them like new media or tech company execs rather than the old school business execs who must look out of place in the creative and media world."
Schofield paid the runner in excess of 100k.
Prince Andrew although not a convicted rapist paid one of his alleged victims millions.
Not enough for a criminal conviction but most claims for libel or slander would say that on the balance of evidence that those payments amount to admission.
Like the share price the evidence was all there of systematic failure by ITV over Schofield but she did nothing, stayed silent and denied all knowledge. We are paying £3.5million for someone who is not seen. She could be work from home most days a week doing precious little.
McCall needs to step up. Be on news bulletins, on financial news. Lots more soundbites. Deborah Meaden was on Peston last night. Perhaps McCall could arrange for Peston to talk top her about Schofield, media and the future of free to air TV.