Itv Share Discussion Threads

[verulamium] 10/3/2021 09:47

net - do you think ITV will increase audience share as a result of this? Will ad revenue go up? Obviously the news wouldn't make the share price go up. Equally obviously, it's about more than just Piers Morgan - ITV management have shown that they'll make decisions that go against shareholders' interests.

[netcurtains] 10/3/2021 09:33

I guess Piers Morgan leaving and probably going to rival TV company might account for 0.00000000000000005% of fall. LOL
I would have thought news would have made share rise

[glasgow13] 10/3/2021 09:33

portside1 good post.

[verulamium] 10/3/2021 09:22

Watched a bit of ITV in the last couple of days, as I was surprised how well things have held up. Not tempted to buy in though.

The management direction is completely at odds with its viewer demographic. The BBC and Channel 4 can go woke without going broke thanks to licence fee/government income (and the C4 audience was always woke anyway) - ITV really can't. Say what you like about Piers Morgan - yesterday's programme was good viewing, today's was as dull as ditchwater. They're also up against a strong Channel 5 at the moment, not to mention the streaming platforms of course. Most of the daytime programming still looks like it's for bored housewives, but they must be a shrinking demographic (however woke ITV are, they don't seem to have spotted that women have brains and work - would Carolyn McCall actually watch any of the rubbish they put out in daytime?). What audience ITV do attract in the day can't be a dream for advertisers (though things do get a bit better when the quizzes kick in in the afternoon)

It's one thing to let wokeness infect your current programmes, but what hope for Britbox when they start to apply the current rules to the archives? Little Britain's already gone, League of Gentlemen's days are numbered, The Sweeney will be gone soon. When there are no programmes left, will they just turn out the lights? One of the reasons for having a streaming platform is to let people see archive programmes that wouldn't be made now, but if the curators start to apply the new rules to the old programmes, there'll be nothing left.

So basically, management has to understand its audience and give them what they want, or to know that there's a new and different audience and be able to attract them. I can't see the current ITV regime doing either, so I won't be buying.

[portside1] 10/3/2021 08:59

Itv is now run the blm be aware of what is coming next

[hades1] 10/3/2021 08:36

Portside1
Great news
Does that mean you will stop posting on this BB?

[tlobs2] 10/3/2021 08:00

So what you are saying stockready is that you are shorting ITV and losing money. LOL.

You have no idea how the company is being run at the moment. What a ridiculous statement.

[stockready] 09/3/2021 23:58

Stan

It is due people/and also big investors jumping from one ship to other as the favourites of the week changes
I truly don't think these levels will be sustainable going forward and how this institution is being run at the moment.
I always said it will go up and it did and may just reach under 135 but no further steam left in this train i am afraid and i am just being realistic here.
Complete mess how ITV is being run at the moment

IMHO
GLA

[stansmith3] 09/3/2021 22:51

anyway...back at the farm...do we think the strength in the rise is due to shorts closing...?

[stockready] 09/3/2021 22:46

Portside

I agreed 100%

[sharebuddy1] 09/3/2021 20:32

The after hours trade prices look very strange. Does anyone have access to more information about these trades?

[ivanborsky] 09/3/2021 20:01

Wow, what a day that was, it had everything. Early night for me, back in the morning, see you all then for even more fund and games. Looking good team !!!!

[portside1] 09/3/2021 19:10

Have sold all my families holdings today a lot of shares This company is run by scum.The blm have taken over Switch off this scum Chanel

[smurfy2001] 09/3/2021 19:09

BREAKING NEWS: Piers Morgan has resigned GMB 🤣

[tlobs2] 09/3/2021 16:52

Quite pleased with the block I bought this morning at 113.5 :-)

Next stop 140p at which point I might bank a bit of profit.

[anhar] 09/3/2021 16:44

smurfy: "Hmmm no harm in taking profit. But l see the dividends as icing on the cake really.


Right now it's about capital gain and recovery from the Covid levels.

I'm up a whopping 81% from my 68p average and feel 100% is a good target. The difference is many years in dividends."



For me it's the other way round. Divis are the cake so any capital growth is the icing. The proceeds of ITV, good riddance, went into M&G, a FTSE100 share with a yield of about 8%.

[ivanborsky] 09/3/2021 15:56

So we're now over 7000 trades for the day with still 30 minutes to go to close and volume 'reported' so far just over 15m shares. With the exception of about 200,000 shares the rest all dealt via the order book. Will we see the real volume reported after hours today or will the dark pool boys & GS look to cover their tracks for the umpteenth time again !!!

[stansmith3] 09/3/2021 15:42

iirc it went to 48p intra day after last years results, so someone doing well

[smurfy2001] 09/3/2021 15:30

Hmmm no harm in taking profit. But l see the dividends as icing on the cake really.


Right now it's about capital gain and recovery from the Covid levels.

I'm up a whopping 81% from my 68p average and feel 100% is a good target. The difference is many years in dividends.