HITC
{{Short description|British news and entertainment website}}
{{For|the TV series|Hollyoaks: In the City}}
{{primary sources|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox website
| name = HITC
| logo = HITC_Logo_Green.png
| logo_alt = HITC Logo
| country = England
| advertising = Native
| registration = No
| area_served = Worldwide
| url = {{URL|hitc.com}}
| website_type = Football news
| language = English
| launched = 2000
| key_people = Vic Daniels (co-founder and Executive Chairman)
Graham Morris (co-founder and CEO)
Robi Buckley (co-founder)
| current_status = Active
}}
HITC (formerly Here Is the City){{Cite web |title=Hitc Company Profile {{!}} Management and Employees List |url=https://www.datanyze.com/companies/hitc/369152645 |access-date=15 June 2022 |website=Datanyze |language=en}} is a British sport news website owned by GRV Media. 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
At its launch in 2000, HITC was focused on financial news.
In February 2010 it set up a "Save Dave" campaign{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/global-email-campaign-to-save-dave-20100204-ng72.html|title=Global email campaign to 'save Dave'|first=Mark|last=Hawthorne|date=5 February 2010|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=16 June 2022}} to save a banker from losing their job after they were caught on live television viewing images of a model in the office.{{cite news|url=https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2010/02/04/our_save_dave_campaign_goes_gl/|title='Save Dave' Campaign Goes Global As Macquarie Investigates 'Set-Up'|last=Daniels|first=Vic|date=4 February 2010|website=HITC}} The campaign garnered much publicity within the finance industry.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-banker-photos-idCATRE61333B20100204|title=Internet campaign to save Aussie banker's job|date=4 February 2010|work=Reuters|access-date=16 June 2022}}{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/02/04/australia.save.dave.banker/index.html|title=Campaigners rally to save 'racy pics' banker Dave's job|date=4 February 2010|publisher=CNN|access-date=16 June 2022}}
The company dropped the name Here Is the City in 2015 and rebranded to HITC.https://www.linkedin.com/company/here-is-the-city {{Self-published source|date=June 2022}}
In December 2023 the website streamlined its news content to focus specifically on football and hired Graeme Bailey as Strategic & Operational Head of Football.{{Cite web |last=Past |first=Sophie |date=2023-12-13 |title=Graeme Bailey Joins GRV Media, as Company Hires 4 to increase football coverage |url=https://grv.media/news/graeme-bailey-joins-grv-media-as-company-hires-4-to-increase-football-coverage/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=GRV Media |language=en-GB}}
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,{{Cite web|url=https://shows.acast.com/Greenwood-Mulliner/episodes/60ede1b0384b620012a8652b|title=Ep8: HITC Sport's "Irish Guy" Michael Ramsay | The Greenwood & Mulliner Show on Newcastle Fans TV|via=shows.acast.com}}{{cite web|url=https://clarechampion.ie/the-irish-guy-from-cratloe/|title=Clare's YouTube sensation scoring big with footie fans|first=Owen|last=Ryan|date=14 August 2021|work=The Clare Champion|access-date=15 June 2022}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://ahalftimereport.com/2015/11/20/fbas/|title=The FBA's: Best Young Football Blogger 2015|first=Alfie|last=Potts-Harmer|date=20 November 2015|work=A Halftime Report|access-date=4 December 2023}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.hitc.com/ Official website]