Itv Share Discussion Threads

[greenhat67] 25/4/2024 16:00

Perhaps this is Lygo’s Gerald Ratner moment and with luck he’ll take the lame Dame with him

[netcurtains] 25/4/2024 14:33

The £1m loss on mr bates mini series…. In reality this shows how much money ITV studios is making out of these shows

[tlobs2] 25/4/2024 13:46

The fact that the program cost a million more than the budget is irrelevant so long as it continues to sell well.

In other news, what we need here is a higher bid/offer price to tempt out a few of the potential sellers.

[slater5] 25/4/2024 13:42

Stan...But no ITV executive with a sales force under him should say anything negative about their top Drama. There is a team selling Mr Bates to the competition and Lygo is slagging it off as a loser, not good, keep your trap shut Kevin!

In all my years in business, you do not say that your product is a loser, such comments devalue your product. Also it's early days to declare a loss isn't it?

Just another gaff from a management that can't manage!

[slater5] 25/4/2024 13:22

Anyone who represents a company that sells abroad should know that you never ever say anything negative about the product, just an idiot telling the competition that ITV's top drama is a loser. Kevin Lygo should have learned how to sell years ago, but here we have another gaff made by an ITV boss.

As someone has already said, the sales side of ITV will find selling 'Mr Bates' more difficult and that is not what one expects from someone in a top position.

It won't happen but Lygo should be fired!

[blackhorse23] 25/4/2024 12:10

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[blackhorse23] 25/4/2024 12:09

BUY THE DIP !

[bigegoadvfn] 25/4/2024 11:24

Also unquantifiable is the revenue from adverts delivered during streams - which is of course still ongoing income if you watch it today for example.

Perhaps Lygo is simply referring to production cost versus series sales worldwide - that seems easy to calculate and may be a loss but doesn’t include the above.

[mancman1] 25/4/2024 10:30

Irrespective of the reported production loss I think the Bates programme must have done a great deal to promote ITVX, but that of course is not quantifiable.

[tlobs2] 25/4/2024 10:05

Kevin Lygo needs to start trimming the wage bill. He could recoup a £100m starting with the ITV news team and regional stations.

[bigegoadvfn] 25/4/2024 08:11

Not a fan of the Lygo interview!

Clearly no internal review of his comments before they were published - a lot of companies are really good at managing this sort of thing.

Poor showing by ITV i have to admit.

[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.