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The Guardian - UK
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Big Cheese Chart: a host of contenders emerge for ITV chairmanship

Big Cheese Chart - 6 November
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Crumbs. Hot on the heels of the Big Cheese Chart's first appointment - look at Lord Burns, Channel 4's new chairman up there in the top left, rosette and all – a host of new candidates for the ITV chairmanship has emerged.

We learned this week that Bob Wigley, the former Europe head of Merrill Lynch, has been interviewed for the job. Meanwhile, Monkey's MediaGuardian colleagues revealed a few more names in the frame: HMV chairman Robert Swannell, his Carphone Warehouse counterpart John Gildersleeve, John Nelson, the former chairman of investment bank CFSB Europe, David Arculus, former chairman of O2 and senior executive at Emap and IPC. And if that wasn't enough, Fru Hazlitt, a former senior executive at Yahoo and radio company GCap, has been linked with the Channel 4 chief executive post. Stop it - we're running out of space!

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