REACH PLC (RCH) — Half Year Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the REACH PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. And I'd now like to hand you over to Piers North, CEO. Good afternoon, sir. Thank you very much, Lily, and welcome everyone. And thank you for joining on this Wednesday afternoon if you're in The UK, for the REACH half year presentation. A quick introduction. My name is Piers North. I'm the chief executive of REACH. I took over this role in March of this year, and I'm delighted to be leading the organization and talking to to to you today. I am conscious that some of you may have seen the full presentations at half years. So So today, what I would propose is we're gonna compress down the messaging a little bit, abbreviate the slides. I will talk through kind of where we are as a business at the moment, where we see the future, our future priorities, how we've kind of the highlights of of the half years before I'll hand over to Darren for, again, a quick summary of the financials of the half year. And then, of course, we will take as many questions as we can. So moving on. I guess, firstly, I wanna start by reminding that we have a very strong media business at REACH. I've inherited a company that is in a good position both from an audience and a financial point of view. I think some...