Director dealing: ITV's Crozier and finance chief take profits

CEO Adam Crozier sold 500,000 shares at a price of 200p to gross a cool £1m, while numbers man Ian Griffiths did not get as quite as good a deal via his broker, falling £3,500 short of his boss's gain after selling at a price of 199.3p a share.

With the UK advertising market stalling over 2016, shares in the broadcaster have sunk from more than 275p at the start of the year to not far over 150p in the wake of the Brexit vote.

Recently Crozier and co were in the news over their aborted attempt to acquire Canadian film and TV distributor and rights owner Entertainment One, feeling that the FTSE 250 company was asking too much.

Top Director Buys

Huntsworth (HNT)
Director name: Jones,Neil
Amount purchased: 45,000 @ 42.15p
Value: £18,967.50

Zegona Communications (ZEG)
Director name: Kalika,Howard
Amount purchased: 15,000 @ 103.00p
Value: £15,450.00

Diageo (DGE)
Director name: Humer,Franz B
Amount purchased: 403 @ 2,052.00p
Value: £8,269.56

Temple Bar Inv Trust (TMPL)
Director name: Reeve,John
Amount purchased: 90 @ 1,095.75p
Value: £986.18

Diageo (DGE)
Director name: Mikells,Kathryn
Amount purchased: 11 @ 2,052.00p
Value: £225.72

Qinetiq Group (QQ.)
Director name: Wadey ,Steve
Amount purchased: 87 @ 231.19p
Value: £201.14

Judges Scientific (JDG)
Director name: Cicurel,David
Amount purchased: 11 @ 1,436.25p
Value: £157.99

Waterman Group (WTM)
Director name: Taylor,Nicholas J
Amount purchased: 177 @ 84.65p
Value: £149.83

Waterman Group (WTM)
Director name: Steele ,Alex
Amount purchased: 177 @ 84.65p
Value: £149.83

Judges Scientific (JDG)
Director name: Ormsby,Bradley Leonard
Amount purchased: 10 @ 1,436.25p
Value: £143.63

Tesco (TSCO)
Director name: Stewart,Alan
Amount purchased: 81 @ 171.51p
Value: £138.92

Tesco (TSCO)
Director name: Lewis,Dave
Amount purchased: 80 @ 171.51p
Value: £137.21

Top Director Sells

Gamma Communications (GAMA)
Director name: Stone,Andrew Jonathan
Amount sold: 300,000 @ 485.00p
Value: £1,454,999.97

Itv (ITV)
Director name: Crozier,Adam
Amount sold: 500,000 @ 200.00p
Value: £1,000,000.00

Itv (ITV)
Director name: Griffiths,Ian
Amount sold: 500,000 @ 199.30p
Value: £996,500.02