Ten Alps Launches GPtv

8 Dec 2008 07:03



Press Release 8 December 2008

Ten Alps PLC

Ten Alps launches GPtv - a new online channel for Primary Care professionals

Ten Alps plc ("Ten Alps" or the "Company"), the factual media company, has added GPtv (www.GP-TV.org) to its growing portfolio of business-to-business online TV channels. 

Launched today by Ten Alps' subsidiary Sovereign Publications in association with the National Association of Primary Care, GPtv is a web based TV channel created specifically to service the needs of UK primary care professionals including doctors, nurses and practice management.

The channel will contain regularly updated video-based content, including reports on industry-wide issues such as integrated care and practice based commissioning, clinical information, practice management features and continual professional development.

Designed to be user friendly and relevant, GPtv aims to be a daily reference source for primary care professionals and with an easy to use indexing system ensuring material is live for as long as it is current and useful.

GPtv meanwhile offers commercial partners a dynamic and new opportunity to be able to visually demonstrate products and services via case studies and adverts.

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Notes on 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 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 550 staff with main offices in London and Manchester, and smaller offices in Edinburgh and Gateshead.

Ten Alps has had seven consecutive years of growth since listing on AIM in 2001, with turnover rising from £2m to £81.4m in the financial year to March 31 2008.

During that period, nineteen acquisitions have been made: in factual TV (including leading producers Brook Lapping, Blakeway and Films of Record), online (video advertising producer MMA, CSR specialists DBDA) and in print (McMillan Scott, Mongoose, Atalink, Camerons, Sovereign - which now have substantial online portfolios). One equity funding has been made since 2001.