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!

Chris, try this this link

Cheers skinny, thanks.

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Chris

Did you get stopped out again yesterday

Are some of these brokers on drug's or what, Sell 194, hold 205

15 May Deutsche Bank 205.00 Hold
15 May Nomura 270.00 Buy
15 May Barclays... 260.00 Equal weight
15 May Berenberg 194.00 Sell

No alders still long.

Dave channel parent UKTV shrugs off 'Top Gear' demise. The owners of British TV channel Dave have promised to shrug off the demise o

Can someone c&p the FT artical

A very good mention for ITV

http://www.tiptv.co.uk/archives/a-brokers-fundamental-stock-analysis/

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Nonetheless, by talking about a tie-up for the first time, Mr Malone has indicated a significant change in thinking. Less than a year ago, he was talking up Liberty’s push into “content” — TV shows and sports rights. There was speculation the company might increase its 6.4 per cent stake in ITV, the UK’s biggest private broadcaster. Any talk of a potential deal with mobile operator Vodafone was brushed aside because Liberty was “not for sale”.

His latest comments do not amount to putting up a for-sale sign, said James Britton, an analyst at Nomura, but they do put “pressure on Vodafone’s board”.

IG index ITV news posted a chart saying that RSI maybe giving a overbought signal at 70

15,000,000 sold after close ?

alders - been notified that Cap Spreads when June future contract expires will not be offering future contracts. Do IG Index still offer future contracts?

Chris, IG index are going to rollover my June contract, haven't been notified of not offering future contracts

Great, thanks alders.

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-acquires-poldark-producer-mammoth-screen

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https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Flibertys-john-malone-eyes-content-consolidation-1433360774&ei=kUxxVZ7-CMz0UvezgKgO&usg=AFQjCNGzTTgx6RwwfekseVOsRQvLQ9Xx_w&bvm=bv.95039771,d.d24

ITV is close to announcing that the acquisition of Plymouth-based independent TV production company TwoFour.

The deal, which could be announced as early as this week, would be a major addition to ITV’s ongoing strategy of snapping up production houses in the UK and overseas, notably the US. Analysts believe such acquisitions could make ITV itself a more attractive bid target.

The deal will end a tempestuous period in TwoFour’s corporate history. In October 2013, it was bought by Boom Pictures, the investor indie set up by former BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey. However in June 2014, Heggessey abruptly left Boom.

The group was subsequently rebranded with the TwoFour name, and former TwoFour Broadcast chief Mel Leach was made CEO. Leach is widely credited with transforming TwoFour from a small regional indie into a national player, expanding from one daytime franchise in 1997 – Collectors Lot on Channel 4 – to making primetime shows for all of Britain’s major broadcasters.

TwoFour will significantly extend ITV’s reach in popular factual programmes, with TwoFour’s recent commissions including Kings & Queens of Speech for Sky1 and Kate Humble: Living with Nomads for BBC2.

The purchase price of the ITV deal is not yet known, but industry estimates put the figure close to £70m industry average takeout price of nine times price-earnings. Combined revenues for the two companies is about £70m.

TwoFour has enjoyed a string of hits recently, including The Jump and Educating Essex for Channel 4. It also made two series of the Tom Daley diving show Splash! for ITV, and is making the channel’s upcoming physical game show Eternal Glory.

The deal would also see former ITV drama commissioners Laura Mackie and Sally Haynes, whose drama indie Mainstreet Pictures operates under the TwoFour umbrella, return to the ITV fold. Mainstreet is currently making a six-part thriller, The Forgotten, for the ITV network.

ITV’s other UK indie acquisitions include The Garden and Big Talk.
An ITV spokesman said: “We do not comment on speculation.”

Analysts believe such acquisitions could make ITV itself a more attractive bid target.