HITC
| HITC Logo | |
Type of site | Football news |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | England |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | GRV Media[1] |
| Key people | Vic Daniels (co-founder and Executive Chairman) Graham Morris (co-founder and CEO) Robi Buckley (co-founder) |
| URL | hitc |
| Advertising | Native |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 2000 |
| Current status | Active |
HITC (formerly Here Is the City)[2] is a British sport news website owned by GRV Media.[1] Formerly a news and entertainment site with a sport section, HITC switched its focus to sport in 2023, with football its primary topic.
As well as multiple social profiles, it also has two popular football-themed YouTube channels, HITC Football (previously HITC Sport) and HITC Sevens, launched in October 2014 and June 2017, respectively.
History
[edit | edit source]At its launch in 2000, HITC was focused on financial news.
In February 2010 it set up a "Save Dave" campaign[3] to save a banker from losing their job after they were caught on live television viewing images of a model in the office.[4] The campaign garnered much publicity within the finance industry.[5][6]
The company dropped the name Here Is the City in 2015 and rebranded to HITC.[7]
In December 2023 the website streamlined its news content to focus specifically on football and hired Graeme Bailey as Strategic & Operational Head of Football.[8]
The HITC Football (previously HITC Sport) and HITC Sevens YouTube channels were launched in October 2014 and June 2017 respectively. As of the end of 2021, the channels have a combined subscriber base of over 1 million. HITC Football was previously run by Michael Ramsay,[9][10] who left in 2022 to launch his own channel, The Irish Guy.
HITC Sevens is run by Alfie Potts-Harmer. His six-month-old blog A Halftime Report won the judges' award for Best Young Blogger at the 2015 Football Blogging Awards. This was decided by a distinguished panel including Dan Walker of BBC Sport, John Cross of the Daily Mirror, Neil Ashton of the Daily Mail and Owen Gibson of The Guardian.[11]
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