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Launch of Kent TV
Launch of Kent TV.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Ten Alps PLC\n21 September 2007\n\n\nPress Release 21 September 2007\n\n\n\n Ten Alps plc\n\n\n ('Ten Alps' or the 'Company')\n\n\n Launch of Kent TV\n\n\n\nTen Alps Plc (AIM: TAL), the factual media company, today announces the launch\nof Kent TV - the UK's first county council-funded, on-demand broadband\ntelevision channel.\n\n\n\nAs announced on 26 April 2007, Ten Alps won a competitive tender process to\noperate Kent TV on behalf of Kent County Council.\n\n\n\nThe new service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week at\nwww.KentTV.com. The site will feature an independent news service, information\nabout local public services and events as well as features on issues such as\nbullying, social exclusion and health. Kent TV has an independent board and an\nexternal news service to ensure totally impartial coverage.\n\n\n\nAlex Connock, Chief Executive of Ten Alps Plc, said: 'We already produce media\ncontent for over 200 councils around the UK so this is an exciting new direction\nboth for us and local government.'\n\n\n\n - Ends -\n\n\n\nFor further information, please contact:\nTen Alps plc\nAlex Connock, CEO Tel: +44 (0) 20 7878 2311\n c/o Moira McManus\n www.tenalps.com\n\n\nCollins Stewart, Nominated Adviser\nChris Wells / Mark Connelly Tel: +44 (0) 20 7523 8350\n www.collins-stewart.com\n\n\n\nMedia enquiries:\nAbchurch Communications\nHeather Salmond / Gareth Mead / Joanne Shears Tel: +44 (0) 20 7398 7700\[email protected] www.abchurch-group.com\n\n\n\nNotes to Editors\n\nTen Alps is a factual media company providing content for TV, radio, online TV\nand print, plus managing related commercial opportunities.\n\n\n\nTen Alps targets content to every outlet that audiences, customers and\nadvertisers engage with - making it entirely cross-platform.\n\n\n\nThis year Ten Alps is producing over 500 publications and scores of TV and radio\nprogrammes. It has invested in and launched 12 online TV channels.\n\n\n\nTen Alps' strategy is to migrate specialist media to online TV, retaining\nconsumers on both sides of the online-offline divide as choice widens and\naudiences fragment.\n\n\n\nGrowth has come through strategic acquisitions and cross selling between media\nchannels. When Ten Alps launched on AiM in 2001 it had revenues of under £2m\nand 10 staff. It now employs over 570 people in three divisions...