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Ten Alps launches VETS.TV
Ten Alps launches VETS.TV.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Ten Alps PLC\n09 April 2008\n\n\n\nPRESS RELEASE\n\n\n\n Ten Alps launches VETS.TV and continues online TV rollout\n\n\nAn online TV service offering specialist programming for vets, has been launched\nby Ten Alps, the factual media company, in conjunction with the British\nVeterinary Association (BVA). The pilot site www.vets.tv went live at the\nBritish Small Animal Veterinary Association Congress.\n\n\n\n Ten Alps progress in Online TV\n\n\nTen Alps is pioneering similar sector-specific online TV propositions across its\n740-strong base of contract-published titles.\n\nTen Alps has a 75% interest in the media consortium behind the professional\nonline TV market-leading Teachers TV channel, which has just won a new contract\nfor the next five years. Ten Alps runs Kent TV, the only fully local\nauthority-funded service of its kind in the UK, and has Public TV, which is a 14\nchannel B2B online TV service.\n\n'Ten Alps provided publishing services to the BVA and online TV was a natural\nnext step,' said Alex Connock, Ten Alps CEO. 'Online TV business models that\nreally work are increasingly looking like contract publishing, and we are very\nwell placed to drive that market. This is the first of a number of channels we\nare rolling out this year.'\n\n\n\n VETS.TV\n\n\n\nVETS.TV is available on demand, 24 hours a day and includes specially produced\nfilms on MRSA, litigation and stress management, best practice, a series of\ninterviews with key veterinary figures and a number of acquired programmes of\ninterest to vets and animal health practitioners.\n\nBVA President Nick Blayney said:\n\n'I am confident that VETS.TV represents the future of Continuing Professional\nDevelopment (CPD.) It will become a significant and popular medium for the\nprofession since it offers varied and interesting programming covering CPD\nsessions, information on broad general interest and practice related subjects.\nIt will be up-to-date, forward thinking and an information packed service\ndesigned specifically for the veterinary professional and indeed developed in\nresponse to feedback from our members.'\n\nSimon Gallimore, launch editor of VETS.TV said:\n\n'We have been working alongside the BVA to ensure VETS.TV is relevant and useful\nto animal health professionals. We believe that vets will welcome the chance to\naccess and share information ...