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		<title><![CDATA[Lay off the Beeb and let ITV off the leash]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Friends, commentators, licence fee payers, I come to praise the government's digital economy bill, not to bury it.Since the bill was published last month, media critics have jumped on a bandwagon that has rapidly gathered speed. But snap judgments do not stand up to scrutiny.A bill to deal with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:36:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Focus on Lewis role in M&B board talks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Questions over the extent of the influence that Joe Lewis wields over Mitchells & Butlers are likely to resurface this week after it emerged that the Bahamas-based billionaire had prompted the pubs operator to abandon talks with Archie Norman over becoming its new chairman.Mr Norman, who was this month...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Good to grow: why Bolland is right choice for M&S]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The simultaneous resolution of succession questions at both Marks and Spencer and ITV is like being blitzed by retailers' pre-Christmas advertising campaigns. Suddenly the screen is filled with smiling celebrities, but instead of Twiggy, Stephen Fry and Wallace and Gromit , the stars are Sir Stuart Rose, Michael Grade,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Archie Norman to Chair ITV]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Holton and Paul HoskinsLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - ITV Plc, Britain's biggest free-to-air commercial broadcaster, has turned to Archie Norman, a turnaround specialist and former Conservative politician, to end its error-strewn seven-month hunt for leadership.Norman, known for turning around supermarket chain Asda and telecoms business Energis before selling both,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:46:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Archie Norman to be new ITV chairman]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ITV will on Wednesday name Archie Norman, the former chief executive of Asda, as its new chairman, according to two people familiar with the situation.The appointment of Mr Norman, 55, a former Tory MP, will bring to an end an embarrassing seven-month succession process for the broadcaster as it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:13:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ITV forecasts strong end to the year]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Britain's television advertising market is now bottoming out, ITV said on Thursday, as it forecast ending the year with the best rate of advertising growth since 2007, and reported the early repayment of by Financial Times]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[YouTube Begins UK Long-Form TV VOD: C4 Signed, May Get ITV]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ YouTube has secured its first long-form on-demand UK TV content, doing a deal that sees Channel 4 add the same shows to the service that are already carried on the broadcaster&#8217;s own 4oD service.Nearly 3,000 hours of shows - including Hollyoaks, Skins and Peep Show - will be available...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unwelcome spotlight on ITV headhunters]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The tortured ITV succession process has drawn criticism from recruiters and thrown an unwelcome spotlight on their industry.The board of UK's biggest commercial broadcaster is searching for a new chairman and chief executive at the same time, leaving it in what headhunters describe as a "worst-case scenario".Peter Waine, a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:15:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ITV Chair Candidates Need No X-Factor]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Headhunters pride themselves on discretion that looks more like secrecy. So why do nominations committees play out the recruitment process in the glare of publicity? Once, the first the world knew of a top appointment was its announcement to the stockmarket: now the shortlist is likely to be printed in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:44:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's Open Season for Chairman, CEO Hunt]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To lose one member of the C-suite may be a misfortune but to lose two looks like carelessness. Yet ITV has done it, simultaneously losing both chairman and chief executive. It should be a reminder to other companies of the importance of succession planning.    Michael Grade has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:30:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ITV needs to fill top slots fast]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ITV finds itself in a "nightmarish" position of having to find both a chairman and chief executive and must move fast to avoid further damaging speculation, headhunters said yesterday.Friends of Sir Crispin Davis, the former chief executive of Reed Elsevier, confirmed he had been in talks with the board...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Weekend Round-Up]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/09/21/weekend-round-up/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Several big brands are beefing up their images as competitors steal a march on them: Vodafone's on the marketing offensive as the potential T-Mobile/Orange merger threatens to push it back to third, behind market leader O2. It is revamping its brand message, swapping its old "Make the most of now"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:58:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ITV Software Firm Ensequence Raising $22 Million Funding; Gets About $15 Million]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Interactive video company Ensequence continues to raise some big rounds: after a $40 million third round from an unidentified PE firm in 2007, it is now raising $22.5 million in a fourth round, and has raised about $14.5 million of it already from a single investor, according to an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:23:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hulu Still Missing UK Shows, Still Dangling Equity For ITV]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Updated It&#8217;s been 10 months since we first learned NBC, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and Disney&#8217;s U.S. TV site Hulu wanted to open up shop in Britain - but still there&#8217;s no sign of it actually being ready to pounce. The venture may have rights to show some UK...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tough times, tough measures. ITV's pensioners must gamble on inflation rates and their own longevity and choose whether to accept an uplift in their pension now in exchange for giving up future increases. Active members of the defined benefit scheme face limits on their pensionable salary increases.Meanwhile, Friends Reunited,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[ITV Sells Friends Reunited To Thomson DC for Mere £25 Million]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So the Friends Reunited sale saga is finally over, and the final end result is brutal: it was sold off to Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson, which owns brightsolid, which in turn owns genealogy website Findmypast.com, reports FT. The new owners plan to combine FindMyPast with Genes Reunited, a Friends'...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[ITV to sell Friends Reunited to DC Thomson]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ITV is set to sell Friends Reunited to DC Thomson, the Dundee-based publisher, for £25m ? less than four years after the broadcaster bought the social network for £170m.DC Thomson's deal to buy the site could be announced as soon as Thursday, according to people close to the negotiations.The...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ UK broadcaster Five is joining UK IPTV scheme Project Canvas, leaving Channel 4 as the only public service broadcaster not signed up to the project. Dawn Airey, Five chairman and CEO, says: ?It&#8217;s vital for broadcasters and other industry stakeholders to form partnerships such as Canvas if they are...]]></description>
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