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Teachers TV Contract Update
Teachers TV Contract Update.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Ten Alps PLC\n13 March 2008\n\n\n13 March 2008\n\n Ten Alps Plc\n\n Preferred supplier status awarded on Teachers' TV contract\n\nFactual media company Ten Alps announces that Education Digital 2 Limited, a\nconsortium in which Ten Alps' subsidiary Brook Lapping is a 75% shareholder, has\nbeen informed by the Department for Schools, Children and Families that its\nTeachers TV tender submission has now achieved preferred supplier status.\n\nThe other participant in the consortium is Independent Television News (ITN),\nwhich has a 25% stake.\n\nThe contract negotiation process is expected to take about 6 weeks, with the new\nfive-year contract starting thereafter.\n\nMedia enquiries:\nPelham, Financial PR\nAlex Walters/ Hugh Barker Tel: +44 (0) 20 7743 6670\n www.pelhampr.com\n\nTen Alps Plc\nAlex Connock, Chief Executive Tel: +44 (0) 20 7878 2311\nc/o Moira McManus www.tenalps.com\n\nCollins Stewart, Nominated Adviser\nChris Wells / Mark Connelly Tel: +44 (0) 20 7523 8350\n www.collins-stewart.com\n\n About Ten Alps\n\nTen Alps Plc is a factual media company - on TV, online and in print.\n\nAs a multi-platform producer, it engages with audiences and customers across all\nmedia outlets.\n\nTen Alps has market-leading positions in all its three key areas of output.\n\n • On TV it produces for Dispatches, Panorama and other key factual\n programmes for Channel 4, the BBC and international broadcasters. One of\n its companies is preferred supplier for a major five-year government\n contract to operate the Teachers TV channel.\n\n • Online it produces Kent TV, the first fully local authority-funded\n broadband TV service in the UK, alongside B2B websites and online TV\n projects, such as the forthcoming Vets TV. It also produces online TV\n advertising.\n\n • In Print it is one of the UK's largest contract and specialist publishers,\n with a growing portfolio of 740 titles across specialist media sectors\n including finance, environment, public sector and international trade.\n\nTen Alps was founded in 1999 by Alex Connock and Bob Geldof.\n\nIt has over 650 staff with main offices in London and Manchester, and smaller\noffices in Dublin, Edinburgh and Gateshead.\n\nTen Alps has had seven consecutive years of growth since listing on AiM in 2001,\nwith turnover rising from £2m to a forecast £78m in the financial year to March...