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• Could the big fish at ITV learn a lesson or two from the minnows?

  - 2008-09-01

  ON BROADCASTING Two commercial broadcasting minnows from the Celtic fringe, SMG and UTV, have just reported financial results, and guess what? They have done much better than their old mother ship ITV plc in recessionary times. SMG's core television business, home of Taggart these 25...

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• A SCOTTISH MEDIA COUP This is the story of how an SMG shareholder

  - 2007-03-04

  SMG can point to more remarkable days than most other companies in its miserable recent history, but few will be remembered like Wednesday, February 28, 2007. This was the day when chairman Chris Masters was ousted by the institutional shareholders, led by seasoned activist Hanover Investors, and his entire non-executive...

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• Business News IN BRIEF: UTV profits hit by ads slowdown

  - 2006-09-12

  UTV, the media group that owns the IT V franchise for Northern Ireland, said yesterday advertising revenues at ITV1 were 18 per cent below last year for September and October, despite ITV's much- hyped plans for revival through a better autumn schedule. Reporting half-year results, the chief executive John McCann...

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• UTV bid for SMG raises loss of independence fears BROADCASTING:

  - 2006-08-27

  RICHARD Findlay believes it would be bad for the Scottish media if SMG lost its independence to Belfast-based UTV and was no longer run from Scotland. While regular media watchers might be surprised that a member of the board which sold Scottish Radio Holdings SRH last year to...

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• Business News IN BRIEF: UTV surges on SMG merger talk

  - 2006-08-19

  Shares in UTV surged 8 per cent to 344.5p yesterday after the owner of the Northern Ireland ITV franchise confirmed it was in early merger talks with its Scottish rival SMG. Shares in SMG, which holds the ITV franchises STV and Grampian in Scotland, and owns Virgin Radio, rose 2p...

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• Big fish seeks bigger pond

  - 2005-04-11

  Compared to the might of ITV plc, Ulster Television is, in the words of its chief executive, merely 'a 2 per cent player'. But the ITV company for Northern Ireland is continuing to demonstrate that there is considerable independent life for the minnows left behind after the merger of Carlton...

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• Kelly's eye not on rivals

  - 2003-11-16

  CHAT show host Gerry Kelly reckons he is not worried by the competition from Dublin rivals The Late, Late Show and the Dunphy Show for viewers. The UTV star switched his show to 8pm on Fridays straight after Coronation Street, avoiding a head-on clash with RTE and...

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• THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Ulster Television shows that small can be

  - 2003-03-18

  WITH THE advertising market in the doldrums and Carlton and Granada in a financial bind, you may be forgiven for thinking there is no money to be made from ITV. But away from the chaos of the two main ITV companies, Ulster Television has been quietly building up its revenues...

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• The Investment Column: Ulster TV

  - 2001-09-18

  THINKING GLOBAL and acting global - the theme of last weekend's Royal Television Society biannual conference - may be appropriate for the UK's bigger broadcasters. What is clear though is that the big fish in the UK media pond are suffering most of the fallout from the advertising market recession....

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• Heavenly opportunity for TV rivals to Richard and Judy

  - 1999-01-10

  WHEN Mike Nesbitt and Lynda Bryans met ten years ago, they never dreamed they would one day be dubbed Ireland's answer to Richard and Judy. Today, however sees their first performance as co-presenters on an ITV morning show which will be screened to millions of people across...

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