Job: chief executive, Channel 4 Age: 46 Industry: broadcasting Turnover: £830.3m Staff: 696 Salary: £490,000 (excluding bonus) New entry New Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham's mission is to put the listing broadcaster back on an even keel after the worst recession in its 28-year history.
The end of talks over asset swaps between John Malone's Liberty Global and Vodafone, which could have seen Virgin Media pass to the latter, put the spark into rival broadcasters ITV, up 2.3p to 250.5p, and Sky, 7p higher at 1,041p.
Nonetheless, the broadcaster has put the question to the eccentric Fielding, and "boopus" is the word he has come up with.
In Germany, exit polls from the broadcaster ZDF put the Christian Democratic Union of Chancellor Angela Merkel and her allies in Bavaria at 38percentt, down 6.5 percentage points from the last elections in 2004.
CBN-IBN, a Delhi-based broadcaster, put the BJP on 270 to 280 seats with more than 35% of the vote, and Congress with about 20% of the vote and 110 seats.
He resists the temptation to put the boot in to traditional broadcasters, though.
Google and Channel 4 in the UK are hoping to capitalise on a recent deal that will put all the broadcaster's TV shows on Google once they have aired on the TV, with Channel 4 responsible for selling the advertising using Google's highly developed web analytics.
"There was a formal offer of a set of television programmes including a televised debate, put together by the broadcasters led by the BBC.
Mr Cameron said: "This was an offer put together by the broadcasters, accepted by me on Saturday.
