ITV must now be a bargain. The current team clearly are an issue but you'd think the big American companies would recognise the bargain.

The yield is also high and can be reinvested. That really does limit the down side. You can even win here if it drops further!

http://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/533320/ITV-advertising-revenue-boosted-by-X-Factor-and-Downton

LATEST BROKER VIEWS

Date Broker New target Recomm.
10 Nov Nomura N/A Buy
7 Nov Liberum Capital 255.00 Buy
6 Nov Westhouse... 228.00 Add
28 Oct Nomura N/A Buy
13 Oct Liberum Capital 255.00 Buy
10 Oct Credit Suisse 270.00 Outperform
8 Oct Credit Suisse 270.00 Outperform
3 Oct Exane BNP... 225.00 Outperform
29 Sep Credit Suisse 270.00 Outperform
26 Sep Liberum Capital 255.00 Buy
Broker Recommendations for ITV 13th November Q3 Interim Statement.

Tipped by Zac Mir yesterday on a breakout above 206

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Looks like the breakout will be 208 then , like he said before

Zac Mir? wish you hadn't mentioned him alders, kiss of death :0)

We have the results to look forward to, Chris

Am i right in saying we have a gap to fill on the chart ?

On the downside alders yes, but hopefully not yet.

Chris

You were right about Zac Mir , the kiss of death for ITV

Aye, fraid so alders, even if trading statement is good tomorrow no guarantee won't consolidate to close that gap to 185 before picking up again.

Liberum Capital consistant in reiterating their 255p buy recom today. See what happens in the morn.

ITV continues to deliver strong growth

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Glad this as recovered from its opening low's , was worried about my stop loss's@193&196

LATEST BROKER VIEWS

Date Broker New target Recomm.
13 Nov Credit Suisse 270.00 Outperform
13 Nov Investec 236.00 Hold
13 Nov Numis 260.00 Buy
13 Nov HSBC 240.00 Overweight
13 Nov Liberum Capital 255.00 Buy
13 Nov Westhouse... 228.00 Add
12 Nov Liberum Capital 255.00 Buy
10 Nov Nomura N/A Buy
7 Nov Liberum Capital 255.00 Buy
6 Nov Westhouse... 228.00 Add
Broker Recommendations for ITV

Some hefty mark ups from Brokers for ITV today on the back of very solid figures. Always the chance of a bid with this company so that should see momentum behind it for a while. Lovely uptrend channel developed. Went long this afternoon. Target SP ultimately the old top at 224p

14 Nov 2014 ITV PLC ITV JP Morgan Cazenove Overweight 202.00 205.10 232.00 243.00 Reiterates

Let's see if these go to 208 when US market opens

Brussels intervenes in row between broadcasters and pay-TV groups
The move by the European Commission is a boost to the campaign by ITV and Channel 4 for the introduction of retransmission fees
Brussels has waded into a row between broadcasters and pay-TV operators warning that a British law allowing Virgin Media free access to ITV and Channel 4’s main channels is an infringement of EU rules.
The European Commission has opened formal infringement proceedings over the legislation, which was introduced in the late 1980s to help the fledgling cable industry. It has written to the Government to demand Section 73 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act is repealed.
The intervention is a boost to the campaign by ITV and Channel 4 to extract what are known as retransmission fees from Virgin Media and Sky, although the legislation only directly affects the cable operator.
Analysts have estimated that a retransmission fee regime akin to the one that American broadcasters enjoy would deliver £100m in extra turnover for ITV and a 15pc profit lift.
The European Commission’s warning to the Government could influence an ongoing review of retransmission fees ordered by the Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid, to scrap the legislation.

The broadcasters’ campaign has sparked a public battle with Sky and Virgin Media.
ITV said the regime was “wholly outdated”. It is against giving away its main channel to Virgin Media and is also irked by increasing take-up of the cable operator’s TiVo set-top box, which records live TV and makes it easier for viewers to skip the advertising that funds it.
A spokesman said: “The majority of viewing on these pay-TV platforms is public service broadcaster programming yet ITV, whether as producer or broadcaster investing in creating that content, doesn’t receive any payment – despite the fact that pay-TV platforms pay commercial terms for other channels such as ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4.”
Brigitte Trafford, of Virgin Media, said: “We do not believe viewers should pay an additional tax for the privilege of viewing programming for which they have already paid.
“We’re pleased Government has confirmed its review of retransmission fees will encompass other wider benefits they enjoy.”
Sky also argued that any deregulation must cut both ways and ITV should be willing to lose its guaranteed prominence on channel menus.
In a House of Lords debate on the issue last week, Lord Gardiner, the Government spokesman, said: “my understanding is that the Government are wholly satisfied that this section is consistent with EU law.”
Television producers are nevertheless expecting to benefit from the introduction of retransmission fees, said Compact Media Group, which manages the collection process for them in other countries.

Looks like its going below 200

ITV's football coverage has many flaws, but an alternative to BBC's Match of the Day could freshen things up
As ITV prepare to challenge BBC for the rights to Premier League highlights for 2016-2019, it's worth remembering how much football coverage has improved in the UK

By Alan Tyers5:14PM GMT 23 Nov 2014 Comments19 Comments
“For me Clive, they’ll be looking to get the Tactics Truck up and running again.” Such might have been the chilling reaction, somewhere in a commentary box upon a foreign field on A Very Special Big European Night, to the news that ITV are to bid for the Premier League football highlights rights for 2016-2019.
The BBC paid £180 million for the current deal, and still had to find the money for the battery of shiny, tight blouses into which the Match of the Day pundits are squeezed as a form of pre-season training in case they get the call-up from Strictly Come Dancing. The show’s wardrobe budget and the cost of maintaining Robbie Savage’s structurally unsound – indeed, ethically unsound – quiff alone must be the equivalent of several mid-level Premier League strikers a season.
But this is boom time, and much like the number of undone buttons of a pundit’s shirt, the cost of TV rights is only ever going to increase.
ITV will no doubt have to top that 180 when bids are made in the new year, but they have money to play with after losing the Champions League to BT Sport and thus the clout to make an offer that the BBC may not be willing or able to match. At the thought of MOTD being replaced by an ITV alternative, many fans are reacting like Arsenal after going a goal behind: wild-eyed panic and indiscriminate all-out attack.
The prospect of a revival of The Premiership, the ITV Saturday evening affair that burned briefly but not brightly between 2001 and 2004, is admittedly not an altogether pleasant one. However, there are reasons to suppose things could be better this time: Adrian Chiles has got a decent grip of an improved punditry team, where star man Lee Dixon is at least as good as the BBC incumbents. Glenn Hoddle adds a degree of tactical gravitas, and the people at whom Savage is marketed can find an analogue in the rabble-rousing ‘shout what you see’ style of Ian Wright. If the Savage aficionados can be trained in clear and easily understood language to press a button marked ‘3’ on their remote controls without pestering their overworked carers too much, would a change be so bad for viewers?



Match of the Day has upped its game significantly over the last two seasons in the level of analysis on offer. At one time, it looked like getting Alan Shearer to put himself about a bit in the pundit’s chair would be like turning around a supertanker, but by God they’ve done it, and The Greatest Living Geordie now attempts – as with Saturday’s dissection of Robin van Persie – to convey insight and, crucially, the experience of having played football in an era when it wasn’t contested with a pig’s bladder between neighbouring villages.
The public wanted younger pundits with more connection to the Premier League era and they’ve got it. They’ve also got Savage, but you know, that’s life. The days of BBC pundits sneering at each other for knowing where a foreign midfielder plays his club football seem to have gone for good, and nobody has been given a wedgie for being a girlie swot in recent memory. At least not on air.
No monopoly improves its product out of the goodness of its heart, and the reason Match of the Day is a better programme in 2014 than it was a few years ago is competition. The quality of insight provided for Sky Sports by Gary Neville, and subsequently Jamie Carragher, has spurred others on.
Maybe a shake-up of the Saturday night order would raise the bar once more. And even in the worst case scenario, it will leave Robbie to spend more time with his hairdresser.