Itv Share Discussion Threads

[corby3] 25/4/2024 00:01

Bobdiamond, good to see you back posting again. Agree with you about the buyback, money could have been used more efficiently, but ITV bosses and us ordinary shareholders are poles apart.

I am not giving up on ITV and this BoD, I am hoping Carolyn fronts the coming update, upbeat and full of positive vibes.

Although still down on the share, I still think the company Mkt Cap of under £3bn is as cheap as chips and it would not surprise to see the share price respond upward 'if' we get a smidgen of good news!!!!!!

[keyno] 24/4/2024 23:57

Extracts from BBC News website article:

ITV made a loss of about £1m on its agenda-setting drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, despite it being the UK's most-watched TV show of the year so far, the broadcaster has revealed.

The series has been watched by 13.5 million people to date.

But Kevin Lygo, ITV's managing director of media and entertainment, said: "Mr Bates has made a loss of something like £1m and we can't continually do this."

Broadcasters are facing big financial pressures, and often rely on overseas channels or streamers buying the rights to show a programme to help recoup its budget.

Last month, ITV said 12 foreign broadcasters had bought the Mr Bates drama. But Mr Lygo said it wasn't sufficiently appealing to foreign viewers to break even.

"If you're in Lithuania, four hours on the British Post Office? Not really, thank you very much. So you can see the challenges here."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84z0lk0019o

[stansmith1] 24/4/2024 22:19

bobagree, the media / advertising landscape has changed materially in the last decade - other thread hasnt cottoned on to that, give them time...fortunately it doesn't mean the share price doesnt have a rally in it, not being too greedy is key...sadly, many individuals put their own ambition above the needs of the country and people with no understanding of the facts had an equivalent vote to people who did, stupid won unfortunately...take care

[bobdiamond1] 24/4/2024 21:58

This share buyback has failed to spark any action into the share price. Why the funds weren't used to pay down debt or do a special dividend is hard to understand. On current volumes it will take forever and just add to the boredom of owning this damp squib.

I laugh at those who want to publish how many shares MS have bought, it's a buyback who cares? This BoD are the pits, they don't seem to have a clue! Six long years of watching this do nothing but fall and woe and behold they think a buyback will cheer investors.

[bobdiamond1] 24/4/2024 21:35

Stan. Can't remember the last time but I just had a long read of the 2022 thread and nothing has changed.

A lot of posters I haven't heard of but same old tosh. Not much has changed with ITV, it remains a damp squib although I think it's more the UK is seen as bad news. I feel a bit sorry for Dame McCall, she bit off more than she could chew at the worst time.

Johnson stiffed the UK and then hapless Truss followed by Rishi, who next to try and breathe some life into the UK. Sadly we are being punished from all round and we are fading fast.

UK shares are out of fashion and will remain so until this Brexit fiasco is sorted, that maybe never.

I hope the worst is over and if so I have a hunch that the trading update on May 9th may contain some positive news, we will see.

[stansmith1] 24/4/2024 21:04

One for the plebs….BBC reporting Mr. Bates vs the Post Office was less than profitable…

There must have been 100 posts saying how much money ITV made from it…what else would you expect from the trolls who are not trolls and waiting to get back to even..

[stansmith1] 24/4/2024 19:32

bigEejit

The cat is out the bag….(youre welcome)…just like boix/hades/rock8R30;..come on lets have the big reveal…we will be two months waiting on the the behind the curve theead realising….

How many more people must I out on these boards, how many real posters?

[bigegoadvfn] 24/4/2024 18:32

That’s good. It’s about half the current average daily volume, but better than nothing!

[huckers] 24/4/2024 18:26

Buyback is……R30;back. 695k shares.

[blackhorse23] 24/4/2024 17:09

Can be use for dating site as well ?? Ha ha ha

[bigegoadvfn] 24/4/2024 17:01

Would it come as a surprise to you both that you can actually use ADVFN for other things than chatrooms - like all the huge amount of data they have which yes I have been using for 20 years plus!

And I don't have to justify myself to anyone especially keyboard warriors on here.

[slater5] 24/4/2024 16:36

Right on Gecko, if you want to be recognized as a good poster, try being transparent on who you are.

[geckotheglorious] 24/4/2024 16:20

BigEgoADVFN
24 Apr '24 - 14:25 -
POST 7240
Shut your noise, I've being using ADVFN for 20 years, I created this account a few weeks ago to share Buyback statistics - something useful I hope.



BigEgoADVFN
24 Apr '24 - 14:33
Post 7243
I am BigEgo on LSE where I have been posting Buyback status and recently BigEgoADVFN here to share my updates here. I am nobody else.


Erm
I created this account a few weeks ago, I am nobody else, BUT I've been using advfn for 20 years. Dont you need an account/id to use Advfn for 20 years?

[tlobs2] 24/4/2024 15:24

The project manager at MS needs to move his price buy range up 10p-20p to spark things into life ;-)

[corby3] 24/4/2024 14:37

Suit yourself!

[bigegoadvfn] 24/4/2024 14:33

I am BigEgo on LSE where I have been posting Buyback status and recently BigEgoADVFN here to share my updates here. I am nobody else.

I'm happy to not bother posting if it's not useful.

[corby3] 24/4/2024 14:31

Two posters arrive here ramping ITV, two posters who joined ADVFN a few weeks ago. Fairly easy to figure they are one and the same and probably someone with three, four or more usernames.

ADVFN if you have noticed are flogging their Silver deal, real time prices and access to the so called paid BB's. Anyone with an online broker can get a real time price and if these unregulated free BB's are anything to go by they allow trolls to flourish. ADVFN are all but useless at keeping trolls off boards.

Silver deal at £17pm offers very little to small investors, they should bring that figure down to something realistic, regulate threads and many would pay a fee of £5 a month just to have real time and troll free boards.

[bigegoadvfn] 24/4/2024 14:28

"post something useful before you start criticizing other posters."

Frankly I don't see anyone else putting this much effort in:

[bigegoadvfn] 24/4/2024 14:25

Shut your noise, I've being using ADVFN for 20 years, I created this account a few weeks ago to share Buyback statistics - something useful I hope.

What are you contributing except whining about Carolyn McCall?

[royston6] 24/4/2024 14:01

It's almost like a conspiracy against McCall - the LSE ITV Chat board is basically unusable anymore as it's just constant back and forth of opinions about the CEO.
I mean say it once, maybe twice, but not every flipping day... YAWN.

BigEgo..What do you suggest we discuss on this ITV thread, credit where due, but I can't find anything to credit McCall for. So where does the buck stop at ITV, with the minions or with McCall. You joined ADVFN three weeks ago, so now you are defending the worst CEO ITV have ever had. Who are you? post something useful before you start criticizing other posters.

Just so happens LSE posters think much the same as we do, maybe six years of failure is beginning to grind shareholders down!

[bigegoadvfn] 24/4/2024 13:44

matthewr1 - it would be amusing if the buyback was impacted by someone at MS being on holiday - I would love that to be confirmed! :)

[matthewr1] 24/4/2024 13:35

French fry, Huckers is 100% accurate when he says that MS don’t know anything in advance of the trading update. The buyback is being handled by what’s called their ‘corporate broking’ department and there are Chinese walls in place between them and research (who are extremely unlikely to have what would amount to inside information.)So 100% not anything Machiavellian by MS.
Secondly , there is a volume metric that provides a parameter of what they can buy , but as I’ve explained before it’s based on up to 25% of the order book volume on a daily basis. So again , not relevant here.
Finally , the suggestion of ‘no loose stock,’ is partially correct , as in volumes are thin & so there is an element of equilibrium (as suggested), as well as the continued apathy towards the UK stock market created post 2016.
None of this therefore really explains why the buyback has done so little the last few days. My guess is that’s it’s down to inefficiency within the corporate broking department of MS , and that the person who’s been handling the order is on holiday or has been called away. Sounds ridiculous? You’d be surprised…R30; (imho).

[bigegoadvfn] 24/4/2024 13:27

It's almost like a conspiracy against McCall - the LSE ITV Chat board is basically unusable anymore as it's just constant back and forth of opinions about the CEO.
I mean say it once, maybe twice, but not every flipping day... YAWN.

I hope ADVFN ITV Chat board doesn't go the same way. :(