Ten Alps Plc is an eight-year-old factual media company, with around 570 staff, listed on London's AiM market under the TAL stock code.



Ten Alps provides and manages content for TV radio, digital TV, websites, specialist publications and live events.

Ten Alps also plays a leading role in Teachers TV, has recently launched Public TV, and is developing more specialist channels.

Ten Alps recognises that audiences and advertisers expect information from a range of media outlets - not just print or TV. But we know that they want quality content, which can be very specialised indeed.

Ten Alps has moved from making and selling TV and Radio programmes, to providing and managing content across all media.

With headquarters in London, Ten Alps also has offices in Manchester, Macclesfield, Fareham, Edinburgh, Gateshead and Derby.

1999

• Ten Alps is founded by Alex Connock, Bob Geldof and Des Shaw. Alex buys Planet 24 Radio for £1, on the day that Carlton TV acquires Bob's previous TV company Planet 24 for a reported £15m. Ten Alps is Planet, misspelled, backwards. Ten Alps moves into a small office on an industrial estate in London Docklands.
  

2000

• Produces TV and radio, including the multi-Sony Award-nominated Sunday Service programme for BBC Radio 5 Live, the Arthur Smith lectures for BBC Radio 2 and “Loves Like a Dog”.

2001

• Reverse takeover of AiM-listed Osprey Communications Plc. In the process c. £2.9m cash is raised, after costs, in an equity placing at 23p.
• Ten Alps moves into a small office above a betting shop in Battersea, South London.
  
• The two Osprey companies within the group are rebranded as Ten Alps RMA and Ten Alps MTD.
  
• Buys events production companies Dr Party and Pacesetter Associates and starts the Know Comment media management agency.

2002

• Buys TV production company Brook Lapping, one of the best-known documentary producers in the world.
  

2003

• A consortium led by Brook Lapping wins a major government tender to produce a Teachers TV channel.

2004

• Buys TV production company 3BM TV.
• Buys TV documentary production company Blakeway Productions.
• Teachers TV goes into production, with a total budget of £60m over four years.
  
  

2005

• Teachers TV is launched.
• For the first time, the company reaches 30 TV and radio projects simultaneously in production.
• Ten Alps buys the slate of Rock Hammer Productions and starts Ten Alps Midlands.

2006

• Ten Alps acquires documentary production company Hart Davies, formerly Hart Ryan.
• Ten Alps acquires specialist publishing company McMillan-Scott for up to £12.25m. McMillan Scott has a 30-year history of producing specialist media through three offices in London, Manchester and Macclesfield.
• To fund the acquisition, Ten Alps undertakes its first equity placing since 2001, at 65p.
• Ten Alps rebrands McMillan-Scott as Ten Alps Publishing, and buys Camerons Publishing in Gateshead.
• Beta launch of Public TV, Ten Alps' first video internet site.

2007

• Ten Alps employs over 500 staff, now managing over 400 specialist publications, 30 TV programmes, 20 radio shows and 40 annual events.
• Ten Alps grows, creates an operating board including experienced media executives Fiona Stourton (ex-BBC) and Nigel Dacre (ex-ITN), and appoints investment banker Tim Hoare to the Plc board.
• Buys two more factual content specialists Atalink and DBDA.
• Rollout of 12 new internet TV channels.