Further BBC Commissions
Ten Alps PLC
01 May 2008
Press Release 1 May 2008
Ten Alps PLC
Ten Alps' Content division wins BBC commissions
Factual Media Company Ten Alps plc has won new BBC Radio commissions.
New BBC Radio 2 programmes will include documentaries on Che Guevara, Madonna
and The Beatles, as part of the 'Icons 'series.
• Che Lives! a documentary exploring the iconography of the ultimate poster
boy of revolutionary chic, on the eightieth anniversary of his birth.
Contributors include Alan Parker, Tim Rice, Ricky Gervais, Prof Germaine Greer
and Gael Garcia Bernal, who played Guevara in the film The Motorcycle Diaries.
• Whilst Madonna releases her new album Hard Candy and prepares for a
forthcoming world tour, a 3 hour special will trace the musical legacy of
her incredible 25 year career.
• Ten Alps will profile The Beatles' White Album following the success of the
Sergeant Pepper 40th anniversary documentaries, made for TV and radio
• Ten Alps is also producing a celebration of the work of Amnesty
International which will mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
This year, Ten Alps companies have also produced the highly acclaimed Aspects of
Love, a Valentine's Day special for Radio 2 presented by Jerry Hall and the
recent Classical City to City series, presented by Tim Michin.
Ten Alps output continued this Wednesday with the broadcast of Philosophy of the
Streets, produced by Ten Alps for Radio 4's 1968 season.
The commissions were won by production company Brook Lapping, part of Ten Alps'
Content division - which aims to create content with residual rights value, in
TV, Radio, online and online TV.
Nitil Patel, CEO of the division, said:
'The TV and radio businesses are a fairly simple demand-driven economy and if
you make high quality, award-winning programmes you win more business. Our
companies have a great track record of doing just that.'
Ten Alps' other division, Communications, focuses on customer content for the
public sector and business, in print and online.
Media enquiries:
Pelham, Financial PR
Alex Walters/ Hugh Barker Tel: +44 (0) 20 7743 6670
www.pelhampr.com
Ten Alps Plc
Jo Philips Tel: +44 (0) 20 7878 2484
www.tenalps.com
About Ten Alps
Ten Alps Plc is a factual media company - on TV, online and in print.
As a multi-platform producer, it engages with audiences and customers across all
media outlets.
Ten Alps has market-leading positions in all its three key areas of output.
• On TV it produces for Dispatches, Panorama and other key factual
programmes for Channel 4, the BBC and international broadcasters. One of
its companies is preferred supplier for a major five-year government
contract to operate the Teachers TV channel.
• Online it produces Kent TV, the first fully local authority-funded
broadband TV service in the UK, alongside B2B websites and online TV
projects, such as the forthcoming Vets TV. It also produces online TV
advertising.
• In Print it is one of the UK's largest contract and specialist publishers,
with a growing portfolio of 740 titles across specialist media sectors
including finance, environment, public sector and international trade.
Ten Alps was founded in 1999 by Alex Connock and Bob Geldof.
It has over 650 staff with main offices in London and Manchester, and smaller
offices in Dublin, Edinburgh and Gateshead.
Ten Alps has had seven consecutive years of growth since listing on AiM in 2001,
with turnover rising from £2m to a forecast £78m in the financial year to March
31 2008.
During that period, sixteen acquisitions have been made: in factual TV
(including leading producers Brook Lapping and Blakeway), online (video
advertising producer MMA, CSR specialists DBDA ) and in print (McMillan Scott,
Mongoose, Atalink, Camerons, Sovereign - all of which now have substantial
online portfolios.) Only one equity funding has been made since 2001.
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