Zinc Media Regulatory News (ZIN)

1 May 2008 07:01

Ten Alps PLC01 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, Madonnaand 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 ofLove, a Valentine's Day special for Radio 2 presented by Jerry Hall and therecent Classical City to City series, presented by Tim Michin. Ten Alps output continued this Wednesday with the broadcast of Philosophy of theStreets, 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, inTV, 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 ifyou make high quality, award-winning programmes you win more business. Ourcompanies have a great track record of doing just that." Ten Alps' other division, Communications, focuses on customer content for thepublic sector and business, in print and online. Media enquiries:Pelham, Financial PRAlex Walters/ Hugh Barker Tel: +44 (0) 20 7743 6670 www.pelhampr.com Ten Alps PlcJo 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 allmedia 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 smalleroffices 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 March31 2008. During that period, sixteen acquisitions have been made: in factual TV(including leading producers Brook Lapping and Blakeway), online (videoadvertising producer MMA, CSR specialists DBDA ) and in print (McMillan Scott,Mongoose, Atalink, Camerons, Sovereign - all of which now have substantialonline portfolios.) Only one equity funding has been made since 2001. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange