STV GROUP PLC (STVG) — Results Presentation

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the STV Group PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company will review all questions submitted today publish responses where it is appropriate to do so, and these will be available via your investor meet company dashboard. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll, and I would now like to hand you over to CEO, Simon Pitts. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, and hello, everyone. It's a real pleasure to be here. Over the next few minutes, I'm gonna give you some perspectives on the future of the TV market, and in particular, why my business, STV, offers both profit and dividend growth potential. But first of all, let me just briefly introduce STV. We're not necessarily a household name outside Scotland. We're not quite a global powerhouse yet, but we're on our way. The simplest way to describe us is as the ITV of Scotland, but with go faster stripes, we like to think. So if you switch button three on your TV set in Scotland, you get STV, not ITV. Lots of familiar programming, the big soaps, Coronation Street in Emmerdale, the 09:00 dramas, Saturday night entertainment shows, but also with comprehensive Scottish news, current affairs, and regional programming representing all parts of the country. We are very much Scotland's commercial public service broadcaster. We also operate STV Player, a streaming service which has over...