STV names former ITV marketing boss as new chief executive

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1. STV has named a former ITV and Channel 4 marketing specialist as its new boss.

Rufus Radcliffe joins the Scottish media group as its chief executive at the start of November. He replaces Simon Pitts, who is leaving to take up the same role at Global, the radio company.

Radcliffe, 51, left ITV earlier this year but had been its managing director of streaming, interactive and data, as well as overseeing the launch of the ITVX digital service. Before joining ITV in 2011 he spent nine years at Channel 4 rising to be its controller of marketing.

Paul Reynolds, the STV chairman, said there had been “a