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Article: ITV - and then there was one; Media.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 22, 2003
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Byline: ANDREW NEIL
HE CAN not be seen to smile broadly in public but we can be sure Granada boss Charles Allen will be dancing a little jig of delight behind closed doors at the failure of Michael Green, his opposite number at Carlton, to become chairman of the new ITV plc, the [pounds sterling]4.6 billion company created by the merger of the two companies.
Allen is still set to be chief executive of the new, combined ITV. Though they put on an affable double act for the sake of the press when the tie-up was recently announced, there is no love lost between the two of them. Allen has never relished the prospect of Green being his chairman, especially ...