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Pogo wrote on Friday about Political/Government intervention in private companies:

" The use of political support should not be surprising either, because after all it is also legal. However, it is worth looking at the legal side. In this case, only shareholders have the ability to block the separation of STUDIO from the ITV structure, and they will rather support such a model if only it brings an increase in the value of the shares they own. And there is nothing that market regulators or competition in the form of Canal 4 can do about it. "

Only Paliament convened on a Saturday to bring in legislation and special measures to take control of British Steel.

Pogo wants potential share holders here to believe that the Government would be hands off with a UAE bid for one of the UK's most influential media outlets.

This weekend has demonstrated that a Labour government is not afraid to intervene even if it costs billions.

No way that LAbour politicians are going to sign off on a bid from UAE investment funds when UAE clamps down on political freedom and has a dubious human rights record.

The redbird/all3media part buyout of the studios is utter fiction. Ccreated by investment relations at ITV to spin false stories to gullible speculators who might buy ITV. Silly people who will ignore global markets and the performance of ITV over ten years and only buy in on the chance that suddenly billions are made available from an outside suitor.

Hopefully this week we have more informed and intelligent commentary on this forum. Less of the Solley, Winnie and Pogo brown stuff.

Yes Pogo is never wrong. 120 by the end of 2024 he promised.He bought in at 82p but he still thinks he made the right decision.

Trump and Pogo. Every mistake is explained away part of a successful strategy. Narcissistic delusion.

The bext six month you are looking at plunging revenues. Increased tax and therefore reduced profit. That is ITV.

Today as we speak the Chinese are making more tariff announcements and the US will no doubt respond before the close of stock markets in London.

The weekend. All eyes on Oman. Iran needs to agree to dismantle their nuclear programme or face all out war with US and Israel. I cannot see Iran complying and that then provides a small window of opportunity for military action before Iran has the ability to strike Israel with a bomb. Netanyahu was in Washington this week. I think there is a high probability that Iran says no and we get strikes maybe as early as Sunday.

I fully expect to find out that the small US oil producers who are struggling with the current oil price and uncertainty will have been bought out and large stakes taken in the big players by people at the top of the new American political elite.

OPEC is ramping up production. It is like they know there will be shortages from global events. Those UAE buyers for ITV studios will be purchasing oil resources fast before the price doubles....

With Trump any scenario is possible but I think this Iran war has been coming and Trump has issued plenty of threats to them warning of very dark consequences.

Contrarian! It was nice and peaceful and then you went and opened the valves on the sewage overflow pipe. Endless brown stuff spilled out and then the quality inspector came along to chat with his anti semitic best friend.

As for merger regulation and UK law, we did all this before but Pogo is too dense and still wants to believe that UK politicians do not interfere in free market. Pogo knows nothing of the wider picture. Of UK history. He knows nothing of the welfare state, nationalisation, regulation and the prevention of buyouts and mergers. He knows nothing of the ITV license, that the company can be struck off, wound up and that the CEO and other members of the Board can be banned from holding director positions.

ITV is too closely linked to UK politics. Far too influential. There are real obstacles to UAE being allowed to part own even the studios as they could then use this to exert leverage on ITV not to broadcast certain news stories or documentaries.

The UAE ownership rumour is dying and Pogo still desperately clings to the idea that a knight in shining armour is coming to his rescue. He is up to his neck in the brown stuff and contuing to spam this forum with just blatant lies.

He and Solley are drowning in their own brown discharges.

It already happened Jed. ITV should be 3-5p higher today only the ex divi caused the drop at the same time the SP was due to rise because of Trump shenanigans.

Trump and McCall. Both try to manipulate share prices and accumulate obscene amounts of money whilst screwing over the little guys.

Telegraph article shows the trouble of selling to UAE. It will be hard to get the idea past the government of breaking away the profitable parts of ITV. They will want to see that the Free to Air can continue as a sustainable business. McCall knows this and she was very clear 2 years ago when she said "The studios are not for sale". The merger rumour is manipulation by McCall and the cronies. Chumps like Pogo fall for it everytime and think they will land a massive windfall. Greed overrides common sense with Pogo. He admitted to losing 1 million in gambling. He has a drink problem. Poor impulse control and no discipline.

Synic ignore Pogo's demand to leave. The only person who should leave is the sad excuse for a CEO. SHare Price will bounce back over £1 once she exits.

Trump knows what he is doing. The stupid facade is meant to throw stupid people off the scent. He just pulled the biggest heist in history. He was giving buy signals on hsi media platform this morning. Those in the know have sold and now bought back around this tree shake and are up by billions. Trump supporters are all getting rich. Making the far right in the USA all the richest people on the planet.

McCall will probably hire Meghan Markle to do a talkshow or celebrity interviews (Piers Morgan's old format). Pay her £1million an episode. Nobody will watch and advertisers will hate it but still better than Big Brother.

Previous post unfiltered, because I can handle free speech and diverse opinions. I am not a bigoted and over indulged princess

They brought back Celebrity Big Blunder!!!!!! Millions paid to commission this nonsense and nobody is watching. It must be losing millions to air this. You can bet it was the Dame and Lygo who opted to reboot this tired and dated format. Sack the both of them.

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a64419838/celebrity-big-brother-2025-ratings-drop/

Previous Winnie post unfiltered, because I am not an overly sensitive princess who demands her safe space from contrary viewpoints.

Looks like my 63p prediction for Friday will be anything but close. Too optimistic.

Tomorrow we should see maybe 5p-3p come off the SP at open. I anticipate a lot of holders are here for the dividend and will then bail.

Could dip below 60p tomorrow.

After tomorrow without buybacks and with the collapse of All3media merger talks it will head down to 50p. Could stay there until October.

Again I am no professional qualifications and the ramblings contained above are the quesswork of an amateur. An amateur who has a much higher success rate in quessing the share price movements than all the self proclaimed experts on the forum

Please explain the SP crash after the launch of ITVX. 120 down to 60p. Who was reponsible for that. Prior to Covid the SP was 150. It recovered and it looked like the Dame was doing the right things. It was a strong recovery to 130. One of the first shares to bounce back.

Then ITVX launch, followed by Schofield and lies told in Parliament. Directionless for 3 years now and complete loss of confidence from the City.

McCall and her many EZJ appointees are to blame. They should all take pay cuts but they keep on massaging the figures to increase their share options whilst overall revenue falls, year on year.

SACK all the EZJ cronies. Leave the lifetime ITV directos in place to fill the vacant positions.

Solley has not contributed anything of worth to this board since Crozier was CEO..... All he does now is come here and whine about the quality of posting because it contradicts his view of ITV as a growth stock. He is a sad old man. An apologist for anti semitism. So much like a broken record.

Rrecain that is the first post you made in 4 days. Did it all get too much and you had to retreat to your safe space where mean people could not call out your stupidity???

You are topping up yet again despite it looking like ITV buybacks are exhausted, merger is a non starter and ex divi will see 5p dropped on the day.....

Were you always so slow on the uptake? Teachers had to go back and explain everything for you a dozen times?

Previous post Winnie unfiltered because I am not a sensitive little flower.

Winnie where are todays buybacks????

I only see Carolyn getting this years tax on her free shares paid now. Clearly she reckons 69p is as good as it will get for the next 12 months.

Does she know something about the merger that you loyal devotees are blissfully unaware of?

Pogo is sat on huge losses but is desperate to explain away his mistakes by buying more. This can only end badly

Record breaking and yet if you look at viewing figures it is way down the list of broadcasters. BBC is no.1 streamer. They switched and set up iPlayer years before ITV and they retain the largest audience share and ad free.

ITV was historically the biggest entertainment media in the UK. Now it is a poor relative to BBC, youtube, netflix. It cannot hope to retain audience figures and is shifting its business towards being a studio that produces quality content for BBC and other streamers.

Free to Air is dead and ITV streaming is not even competing with iPlayer and the big US providers.

We need a CEO who does not get distracted by vanity projects and focusses on growing the studios. The use of Britbox money to finance share buybacks was a utter waste. It should have bought more studios

Oh dear the SP fall is back again. Some of the noisy holders will go silent again.

Nurse? I have a young Russian Doctor to take care of my needs. Highly recommend you all get one.