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Update - Online TV Activities
Update - Online TV Activities.
About this update from Zinc Media Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n Ten Alps PLC\n09 February 2007\n\n Ten Alps plc ('Ten Alps' or 'the Company')\n\n Update on online TV activities\n\nFurther to the Events update announcement made by the Company on 22 January\n2007, Ten Alps reports on the Group's online TV activities.\n\nHighlights\n\n • The Public TV portal, which aggregates video and other IP for B2B and the\n public sector, has expanded to 3,000 videos from 120 organisations, and has\n rolled out substantially expanded features, including advertising.\n (www.public.tv)\n\n • As of January this year, Ten Alps has started simultaneously producing\n online versions of all its niche publications and integrating them into the\n Public TV database.\n\n • A deal has been signed in Norway for Ten Alps to develop the plan for an\n online TV Peace Channel, wholly funded at this stage by Nobel Laureates\n supporter, Point of Peace. (This has already been reported in the press as\n a 'trade' story.)\n\n • There are discussions in progress around other possible niche channels.\n\nOperational progress in online activities therefore remains on plan.\n\nAs expected, the financial contribution from online TV activities will not be\nmaterial in the year to March 31, 2007.\n\nBackground\n\nTen Alps' plan is to 'arbitrage' offline, robustly advertising-funded specialist\nmedia into a market-defining database of freely available online video.\n\nTen Alps is converting material from its existing nearly 400 titles, and aims to\nbuy more titles and websites.\n\nPublic TV\n\nThe video aggregator is sourcing material from organisations such as NATO, the\nUN, the Army, Downing Street, the EU, the Department of Health, the Tate, the\nCountry Channel, Fire Kills, Food Standards Agency, ACAS, NHS Connecting for\nHealth, Office for Public Sector Information, Christian Aid, Prince's Trust,\nNASA and of course UK political party sites such as Webcameron.\n\nPublic TV is based on these principles:\n\n • Current online video portals focus on entertainment and lighter\n user-generated material\n\n • Free-access, subscription-free, advertising-funded, Flash-based download\n is the market-defining model and this is the best route to follow\n commercially\n\n • There is a wealth of editorially-substantive online video available, but\n it can be hard to find, given the need to filter out entertainment content\n re...