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Who would have thought that teenage boys and men who have never grown up are a more profitable market than 90% of the British public who watch free to air tv.

Clueless Entitled One taking 3.5 million a year and yet the business is less valuable than niche high street retail. The average homeless persons on the street would make for a better BoD and their drinks bill would be cheaper.

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War hammer, that niche market for tiny figurines and fantasy worlds is worth more than ITV. This is what the Dame and her Easyjet cronies have reduced ITV to. The UK's biggest entertainment firm is now worth less than fantasy role play

The Carolyn sychophants will still refuse to see the obvious.

Will be interesting to see if this drops below 70p with the buybacks in place. I have a gut feeling that the broker is buying back the shares around 70p and only increases the buying if the SP drops below. 250million could be a nice safety net through until the summer

Jed it is music to my ears to have you back. The space you vacated has been occupied by Pogo and as nice as he/she is their posts often make little sense to anyone. Good to have someone who writes so succinctly and with the authority and wisdom of your mature years.

Not sure the PSB renewal is any big achievement seeing as it barely generates revenue now and ITV being set free from the that burden could have seen everything put behind pay walls on ITVX (surely this is the future). Also would have meant the studios switching purely to producing content for big streamers where the rewards are greater. The markets may view it differently and as a vote of confidence in ITV.

Bought back the shares I sold 2 days ago in the hope we move back up 2-3% again now before end of week.

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Small story picked up by the Telegraph (behind paywall). Only a handful of people at the advertising side. For that kind of cost saving the Dame could have just taken a 10% paycut........The whole board could have stood in solidarity with the workforce and refused all share options this year.

Pogo I have pictures of snow in Africa. Snow falling in the Sahara. Atlas mountains it settles and is deep. Hire a car in Ouzazate in winter and drive to mountains and Sahara. You will be in for a shock.

Pogo many of us thought it would go to £1 in early 2023. It got up to 96 on one afternoon. Many of us held. It then crashed all the way back down to 56.

You would have us repeat the same mistake again? That is really poor investing.

We are trying to be smart by investing in ITV long term but also by reaching a consensus on here as to when and where to avoid the dips.

I have 3 nationalities but Russian is not one of them.

The 23% rise since the announcement of buybacks is a massive bubble. Those initial buys have not been followed up now and there is no more good news coming out from ITV at the moment. My best guess is this will head back to 60s and then after the summer will move downward again to a point where the SP is back in the 50s by end of the year.

I sold a large number of my ITV shares at 72.3 yesterday. Small gain of 2% over 6 months and the 1.7p dividend. Glad to have lowered my risk.

Winstanley believes in paying 20 million to someone who wipes 7 billion from the value of one of the UK's biggest companies?

How about I come round your house. Burn half of it down and you pay me 100k?

Bond, you do not see a problem with a CEO and Board who let the share price fall from 200 to 50? Loathed by the city and investors? Who do precious little to drive value back into the company. One announcement per year from a CEO who takes 3.5million form the business.

Sorry but your judgement is flawed.

Every forum has its collection of old gits who zealously ramp and get angry at anyone who questions their lies. Lawrence and Winstanley are identical in so many ways.

Winnie I watched the Manure Liverpool game and the rugby games over the weekend. First time in ages that ITV have come up with such a good weekend of sport. I was a proud owner.

So you are admitting that by posting that article you made a clown of yourself? Maybe you can tell us about the next Goldfinger US takeover bid.

I have never posted Motley Fool on this forum. It shows poor judgement.

Contrarian is loved on this board. A very levelled headed investor who debunks the rampers lies.

Poor guy has picked up a stalker in the same way I have 5 lunatics who follow me around

Yes Winnie. If you google Chernin and ITV it was all 12 months+ ago when the Dame made noises about selling the studios.

Best to ignore Motley Fool or at least verify their rumours elsewhere before putting them up on this board. It makes you look like an amateur.

Modern UK politics has been damaged forever by Blair. Everyone wants to make £200million once they leave office. Blair showed them how through illegal wars and Private finance initiatives you can then go onto amass obscene wealth once you leave office. Johnson made 5million in his first 6 months. Easily doubled that by now. Rishi will go after the election but probably be trade advisor to foreign governments wanting trade deals with UK. He may go on to out earn even Tony the liar Blair by lobbying and procuring trade and arms deals the world over.

I like watching mixed race all female couples in my ads. I am thinking of voting labour now their have booted the anti semites out.

I watched Rugby and football over the weekend on ITV. Lots of ads for beer and white male heterosexual stuff.

You Ironknut must be watching the shows geared towards, woke, non binary mixed raced families. Celebrity big brother?

"Trash the CEO"? Just stating the facts. The share price here is nothing to cheer. Still half of what it should be and where it would be if it were not for the bogus business woman of the year. 150 or 70. Hard to hide the fact that Carolyn has wiped billions off the valuation of ITV.

Anyway as for ITV studios. Interesting comparison is vodafone selling off their Italian operation for billions. If ITV were to offer just ITV America to the streamers they could generate billions which could then be invested into new studios or aggressively buying out smaller studios with the intention of flipping them once they achieve a greater valuation.

The future is possibly as an investment company who bring studios to maximum value and then offload for profit. Free to air advertising is dead and subscription tv might lose the ever smaller auidences who still remain.

One last thing. Where is Jed hiding?