Adam Crozier


ITV’s Crozier to keynote MIPCOM

Adam Crozier, the CEO of UK broadcaster ITV, will deliver a keynote speech at MIPCOM in October. On Monday, October 5, Crozier’s Media Mastermind talk will cover points such as creative renewal at the network, its global expansion in markets such as the US and new international scripted coproductions. His thoughts on scripted will tie […]

ITV ‘set to buy Twofour’

UK broadcaster ITV is set to acquire Plymouth-based production and distribution group Twofour, a Media Guardian report claims. The deal’s value is not known, but could see Educating Essex producer Twofour fetch around £70 million (US$107.5 million), according the paper’s estimates. Twofour merged with Boom Pictures in October 2013, though the partnership has not been […]

Studios lifts ITV results

ITV said that its total revenue climbed by 12% year-on-year in the first quarter to £754 million (US$1.2 billion), thanks to gains across broadcast and online and at its ITV Studios production arm. In a trading update published ahead of the company’s annual general meeting today, ITV said that its broadcast business has made “a […]

ITV looks to international business for growth

Reporting strong full-year results this morning, UK broadcaster ITV said today revenue at its content unit ITV Studios will grow £100 million (US$153.4 million) this year. It also pinpointed international expansion in its new three-point growth plan. The content business has been boosted by a wave of acquisitions of production businesses, notably in the US. […]

Hazlitt exits ITV as Williams takes over

Fru Hazlitt is leaving UK broadcaster ITV to move overseas with her family, with her commercial chief role going to Kelly Williams. Hazlitt – ITV’s managing director, commercial and online – has been a key figure in ITV CEO Adam Crozier’s ‘Transformation Plan’, which has seen the network focus on driving revenues through via international […]

ITV Studios on track for £100m 2014 revenue boost

The content arm of ITV is on course to grow revenues by £100 million (US$157.5 million) in 2014, the UK broadcaster said this morning. The commercial channel operator reported results for the first nine months of the year, with ITV Studios revenues up 10% in the period. ITV Studios reported revenue of £207 million in […]

UK retrans debate widens as government eyes regulation cut

UK culture secretary Sajid Javid has pledged to take a “long hard look” at retransmission fees between broadcasters and pay TV operators in an effort to cut government red tape. In his first major appearance as secretary of state for the department of culture, media and sport, Javid told attendees of the RTS conference in […]

Analysis: Will ITV get its way on UK retransmission fees?

ITV says the wider industry will back its aggressive to push to get the UK’s pay TV platforms to adopt a system similar to the US and pay to carry the territory’s terrestrial broadcasters, but analysts have suggested the fight will not be an easy one, reports Jesse Whittock. ITV CEO Adam Crozier was bullish […]

Crozier reignites UK retransmission row

ITV chief executive Adam Crozier has said that the company and the wider industry will push for BSkyB and Virgin Media to pay US-style retransmission fees later this summer. The broadcaster plans to unveil a study examining how retransmission fees could work in the UK in September, but analysts have expressed scepticism about the amount […]

ITV remains a takeover target, say analysts

ITV will remain a takeover target and speculation about a sale will drive its share price ahead of any deal for the UK commercial broadcaster, according to analysts. In the wake of interim results reported this week, investment bank Credit Suisse issued a note on ITV in which it said the broadcaster’s performance was solid, […]