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UTV Plc.

UTV is in the Technology Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$170.7M
  • Public
  • UK
Dow Jones Description

Media Services

Group Chief Executive
John McCann
Number of Employees 929
Contact Information

Ormeau Road

Belfast BT7 1EB

www.utv.co.uk

(44) 28 9032 8122

NAICS Code Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing: 334220

News & Analysis

smg and utv plc. - All News and Analysis

  • 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...

    Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, SMG, UTV Plc.

  • Doubt cast over Virgin Radio float

    - 2007-06-24

    UTV scrapped plans to bid for Virgin Radio after deciding it was worth much less than the GBP100-million-plus that SMG is seeking for it. UTV, formerly Ulster Television, is understood to have turned its attention to SMG-owned Virgin Radio after pulling out of merger talks with the whole...

    Tags: SMG, UTV Plc., Virgin Group

  • SMG board forced into UTV U-turn MEDIA: COUP MEDIA: COUP Shareholder

    - 2007-03-04

    OUSTED SMG chairman Chris Masters and his board were forced against their wishes to seek a merger with UTV after institutional shareholders refused to accept acting chief executive Donald Emslie for the role on a permanent basis last year. It has also emerged that when Masters was pushed...

    Tags: SMG, UTV Plc.

  • 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...

    Tags: iTV, SMG, UTV Plc.

  • SMG rejects improved offer from rival UTV

    - 2006-08-30

    SMG, the Scottish media company that owns Virgin Radio, has rejected a sweetened offer from the rival UTV, in a move likely to extinguish prospects of a pounds 400m merger between the two. UTV, based in Northern Ireland, had made an approach to SMG earlier this month,...

    Tags: SMG, UTV Plc.

Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
John McCann Group Chief Executive
M.H. Morrow Managing Director
S. Taunton Managing Director
J.R. Downey Finance Director

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
John B. McGuckian Chairman
A. Bremner Board of Directors
Helen Kirkpatrick Board of Directors
K. Lagan Board of Directors
R.E. Bailie Board of Directors

Mr McCann joined UTV in 1983 as Financial Controller/Company Secretary. He became General Manager in 1989, was appointed to the Board in 1992 and became Managing Director (now Group Chief Executive) from 1 October 1999.

Organization Position Status
UTV plc Group Chief Executive Current
UTV plc General Manager Former
UTV plc Managing Director Former
UTV plc Financial Controller Former

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UTV plc Managing Director Current
UTV plc Board of Directors Current

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UTV plc Managing Director Current
UTV plc Board of Directors Current

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UTV plc Finance Director Current
UTV plc Board of Directors Current

John B McGuckian is a Non-Executive Director of TVC Holdings. John is chairman of UTV plc, Irish Continental Group plc, Cooneen Textiles Limited and Dale Farm Limited. He is also a director of Harbour Group Limited. John's former directorships include AIB plc and Unidare plc. He has served as chairman of the International Fund for Ireland and the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland. John was formerly pro chancellor and chairman of the governing body of the Queen's University of Belfast. John holds a BSc. (Econ) and is a Doctor of Laws.

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Tvc Holdings Plc Non-Executive Director Current
UTV plc Chairman Current
Irish Continental Group PLC Chairman Current
Dale Farm Limited Chairman Current
Cooneen Textiles Limited Chairman Current
Allied Irish Banks PLC Board of Directors Current
Tvc Holdings Plc Board of Directors Current
University of Belfast Chairman Former

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UTV plc Board of Directors Current

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