Entertainment Rights Share Discussion Threads

[wodahsnoom] 04/6/2008 15:53

Fair enough

[bonio10000] 04/6/2008 15:51

We're not but I can't be bothered to explain.

[wodahsnoom] 04/6/2008 15:43

Bonio10000 - I think you'll find we're arguing on two different levels' You are looking to your experience of auditing licences and I am looking at the cash generative potential (of the order of 16m in 2007). Neither view is the simple answer to where the share price should be but making sweeping statements to justify the share price is a little naive.

[wodahsnoom] 04/6/2008 15:32

Bonio10000 - Don't disagree with you on them overpaying for Classic but the mish mash (leaving one-offs aside) can produce 12 - 15m pbt. It's a puzzle eh?

[bonio10000] 04/6/2008 10:30

It is low because all they have is poor IP.

Massively overpaid for the US company. Where is the killer IP?

Postman Pat?
Basil?
Lassie?

Nope - just a miss mash of second tier stuff.

[leetholdings] 04/6/2008 10:27

Cant't beleive share price is so low I was a holder some 18 months ago but managed to get out at 28, more on gut feelin than anything else. At these levels i would be very surprised if Trevor Hemmings didn't take it out and run it as part of his leisure empire. imo

[53tom] 02/6/2008 10:16

It was really just a case of monday morning cynicism.
With the share price at its lowest since the company started, yours seems to be the only approach we can any of us take.

[wodahsnoom] 02/6/2008 09:44

53tom - I think the kind of money at stake would be so insignificant as to rule out anything deliberate though i can see why you are struggling to find a sensible reason for such incompetence. I've mentally written off my investment in this company and anything else is a bonus. 10 epic moview based on Lone Ranger, basil Brush,lassie...........that should do the trick and hopefully can get out @ 10p

[53tom] 02/6/2008 09:36

Wow Nick Phillips has actually bought 500,000 shares!
Question in my mind is did he deliberately drive the share price down beforehand so as to get a low price OR did the boards incompetance drive the price down and he was pressured into buying some (possibly by Hemmings)to try and restore some vestage of confidence in the company.
Unfortunately neither option gives me a warm feeling.
I hope he is a bit more pro-active and high profile than we have been led to believe by recent articles.
Good luck all.

[hotips] 31/5/2008 07:54

From where I'm sitting, I'd say this share price has collapsed. Seeing as ER holds one of the largest librarys of children's intellectual property rights in the world, I'd say that the reason the share price is so dismal is the utterly rubbish management and the financial communities evident lack of faith in them. The share price has NEVER been lower than its current pathetic level. Bransgrove et al should be hanging their heads in shame. And they can't even organise an AGM for heaven's sake! What an utter, utter shower. If I were Nick Phillips I'd use this current situation to fire the damn lot of them and get a new board on board. Let's see if this new man has any balls......

[hotips] 30/5/2008 16:30

Glad to hear the AGM is going to be well attended. It's underlined in my diary.... This lot never put themselves up for questioning, so let's make the most of the AGM and ask the questions that matter. Don't think the share price has ever been as low as it is today. What a tale of woe. Just goes to prove that Bransgrove MUST GO in order to get confidence back into this company. He's spent way too long swanning around his bloody Rose Bowl, and not enough time sorting this mess out, not that I believe he's qualified to run a media company like this.

[wodahsnoom] 30/5/2008 16:10

It says it all............Great start Nick!

[53tom] 30/5/2008 15:07

We must have sent them at the same time then, because so have I.
Sent mine for the attention of Rob Bransgrove and Nick Phillips.
Likewise do not expect to recieve reply.
I will definitely be going to the agm, and asking some jolly awkward questions.

[shauney2] 30/5/2008 14:56

I have emailed the company [e-mail]
Had a good old whinge about the shambolic way to run a company. Doubt i will get a reply.
Also sent one to their brokers Altium Capital who must be looking through rose tinted glasses with their heads stuck up someones bum.

[hotips] 30/5/2008 12:59

This is simply appauling. What a disgrace. It is the job of the Company Secretary, Irvin Fishman, to organise the AGM, and seeing as it is the non-exec Irvin Fishman, who, together with the other inadequate non-execs has let this company slide to such a woeful level, might I suggest he does the decent thing and falls on his sword, forthwith.

[kenmill] 30/5/2008 12:29

What a shambles - they can't even convene their AGM properly. It is now 26th June. It makes you wonder if they did it deliberately to give themselves extra time to get their act together

[rochford6] 30/5/2008 09:32

Mattel has signed reality TV star Suzanne Shaw as a brand ambassador for its Barbie range.

The former Hear'Say popstar will sing the title track Connected for the animated movie Barbie & The Diamond Castle, which will be released later this year.

Shaw will also help promote the film and will appear on an interactive DVD of songs, which will be available through on-pack promotions.

The partnership is part of an extensive marketing programme for the Barbie & The Diamond Castle DVD and toy range, which will also include TV ads, retailer initiatives and online activity.

The campaign is the first time that Barbie DVD distributor Entertainment Rights and Mattel have undertaken an extensive joint programme.

Mattel Girls senior marketing manager Trine Hammer-Frausing says: "This is just one of a number of initiatives we are undertaking this year aiming to deliver our messages to consumers in innovative ways."

Shaw shot to fame in 2001 after winning the talent contest Popstars to become a member of the band Hear'Say. She returned to the public eye this year winning series three of the ITV1 show Dancing on Ice. She also appeared on reality show The Baron and fronted the shortlived lottery show BingoLotto on Virgin 1 and Challenge with Joe Pasquali.

Last year, Mattel repositioned its Barbie product range, promoting it as wholesome and connecting it to the innocence of childhood (MW August 16).

[humphbumph] 29/5/2008 22:00

I doubt very much if shareguru made any money on these shares. I doubt that he owned any: they don't allow inmates of the Home for the Bewildered to own shares!

[wodahsnoom] 29/5/2008 21:48

hotips - Agreed. The share price reflects the lack of buyers, nothing more. Any small amount of selling puts the share price further down. I would be surprised if the bank covenants are in danger of breach given ert's recent recruitment campaign on the marketing and contractual side. Theshareguru's recent smug post aside, few people have made any significant money on this share in the last year. I'm hanging in because i did'nt get out 9 months ago - win some lose some!

[hotips] 29/5/2008 07:49

The level of this share price is an utter disgrace. The directors had best have something up their sleves (other than long arms for grabbing expences) at the AGM. Confidence building within the financial community should be their major priority after the dreadful Heap years. Shame that old cricket bore Bransgrove didn't get flushed down the pan with him. Let's hope this new man can pull something out of the bag......

[53tom] 28/5/2008 18:41

Definitely not a good day for the sp!
Wonder whether this can form a triple bottom, and if so, whether it can indicate the start of a rise to a sustained higher price.
Sells are probably people who bought in for the hoped for takeover now exiting for a shorter term punt elsewhere, or people 'selling in May'.
Pure conjecture is all we have, oh and frayed nerves.
Next few weeks will probably give a better indication.
4 business days before agm meeting.

[theshareguru] 28/5/2008 15:23

i am glad i sold a while back, anybody know what the bank covenants are on the
loan ?

[53tom] 28/5/2008 12:00

Your probably right.
Presumably ERT cannot make any open statement about Disney or any other potential deal until it is sufficiently advanced, but more importantly because the studios like to make a big fanfare announcement at the best time for their publicity machine and would take a very dim view if a premature announcement were made by the likes of ERT.
So I do not believe we will hear more on this area at the agm.
But hopefully they will have other news/updates.
Like how much compensation they are getting from Universal, any new broadcast deals, new licensing deals, etc.