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ITV appoint new boss
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 29 January 2010
Good news for postmen, ITV has recruited the not especially popular boss of the Royal Mail, Adam Crozier, to be its new CEO. Whether that’s such good news for ITV I don’t know. ITV have been looking for a new chief exec since Michael Grade announced his intent to step down from the day-to-day running of the broadcaster last April. The Grade-ster, who had been both Chairman and CEO of the struggling telly firm, subsequently announced he was quitting as the company’s Chair as well.
For that reason it was new ITV Chairman Archie Norman who announced Crozier’s appointment yesterday. Saying that the Royal Mail boss, who previously ran the FA, was a “great leader” with the “steely resolve we need at ITV”, Norman wrote in a memo to ITV staff: “Even in the short time I have been here I have seen enough to know that we have great broadcast, production and television talent. The challenge for the chief executive is to help us bring our company together, build a changed organisation, encourage pace of delivery, attract new talent and bring out the best in our own people. This brings to an end a long period of uncertainty for ITV and means we can now focus wholeheartedly on the challenge ahead”.
