Blogs by Ten Alps staff, or coverage about Ten Alps by external sites - on creative or media issues. Opinions are not necessarily Ten Alps corporate policy, or expressed on Ten Alps' behalf. Neither individually nor together are blogs financial statements. Only RNS statements (here) represent trading, regulatory and financial statements of Ten Alps Plc.
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Blog by Alex Connock on Grant Thornton site on how oratory is back in business....
22nd January 2010
Blog by Alex Connock on Grant Thornton site on how oratory is back in business....
Jerry Hall blogs on Elvis for Ten Alps
22nd December 2009
Jerry Hall has written a Christmas blog for Ten Alps about the influence of gospel on Elvis Presley
The media needs clever tax breaks - Alex Connock on Grant Thornton site
17th December 2009
Is there a specific cultural or UK-strategic reason why film is more important to the nation than, say, computer game, intellectual property creation or online publishing?
Des Shaw talks about his Radio 2 programme on the Rolling Stones' infamous Let It Bleed tour
10th December 2009
`Shedding Hippie Blood’ is the story of the Rolling Stones `Let it Bleed’ US tour of 1969, a momentous moment in rock history that defined an era. Des Shaw talks on audio about the making of the programme.
Brian Lapping and Norma Percy at History Makers 2010
4th December 2009
In the Master Class series, award-winning producers, directors and writers share their techniques and stories. Brian and Norma will discuss the art of investigative history and how they persuade the world’s top leaders tell inside stories of their interactions with each other at moments of crisis.
Trevor Birney discusses the impact of Digital Britain in Northern Ireland
2nd December 2009
Below the Radar's Trevor Birney makes the case for an online-specific, Digital Britain news pilot to address the downturn in local journalism resources in Northern Ireland.
Up the North: Alex Connock calls @ Manchester Business School for North-wide media equity finance
2nd December 2009
Alex Connock for the whole of the North of the UK to merge its strategic efforts to raise equity capital for media industry development - Northwest, Northeast, Scotland, Northern Ireland - rather than competing regionally.
BBC Radio 4 Media Show: Alex Connock discusses news consortea
25th November 2009
Ten alps CEO Alex Connock discusses Ten Alps' joint plan with Press Association and Trinity Mirror for a North East news consortium on BBC Radio 4's Media Show. Find interview 22 minutes in.
Geldof addresses Belfast's 'Sluggerotoole' political awards on Northern Ireland's exclusion from Digital Britain funding
25th November 2009
Bob Geldof tells Northern Ireland's political establishment: 'The old media have managed to get a lock out on any new funding coming into Northern Ireland for finding out what sort of local news, or new ways of delivering it, may be possible.' Watch video & read text.
Ruth O'Reilly writes in Belfast Newsletter about looming Digital Britain democratic deficit
24th November 2009
Below the Radar's Ruth O'Reilly argues that Northern Ireland is in danger of being left behind in Digital Britain following its exclusion by the DCMS from the independent news consortea process.
The challenges in making Dispatches - Tom Porter - Real Screen
24th November 2009
Tom Porter, series producer for Ten Alps company Blakeway Productions, details the challenges and benefits of producing a fast turnaround a program about breakfast cereals and health claims for Channel 4's 'Dispatches' strand.
Trinity Mirror, Press Association and Ten Alps' DCMS bid for local news gets wide coverage
20th November 2009
The story was covered in the Guardian, Media Week, Press Gazzette, Broadcast, How-Do and many local papers.
`Ten Alps playbook' seen as way to save regional newspapers - PaidContent: UK
15 November 2009
The Society of Regional Newspaper Editors’ conference heard Sunday 15 November that Ten Alps has pioneered radical solutions for their business models – work with local councils and move to classified video advertising
Hanoi Filmmakers – Sarah Macdonald – Ten Alps Asia
13th November 2009
Sarah Macdonald,Managing Director of Ten Alps Asia, is producing a First Time Filmmakers competition for Discovery Channel in Vietnam. Here she writes about one of the strange characters she has met along the way.
Geldof calls for Parliament committee hearing on Ten Alps' Northern Ireland plans - Bob Geldof - Belfast Telegraph
5th November 2009
Ten Alps co-founder Bob Geldof has called for Ten Alps' plans for Northern Ireland news pilots under Digital Britain to be given a fair hearing by the Northern Ireland committee.
Percy pleads to protect BBC - Norma Percy - Broadcast
4th November 2009
Award winning documentary maker Norma Percy launched a passionate plea to the government last night, urging politicians to protect the BBC and its licence fee.
Opposition attack government rail policy at Ten Alps conference - Passenger Transport Conference '09, Manchester
November
Transport Minister Sadiq Khan MP heard UK rail privatisation criticised at Ten Alps conference. Shadow Transport MinisterStephen Hammond MP: “Even after upgrade the West Coast main line would be one of the most overcrowded pieces or railway within the next 5 years.”
Sheffield Doc Festival - Alex Connock, Audioboo/C21
4th November 2009
Ten Alps CEO Alex Connock discusses plans to digitize his company's entire catalogue of documentaries, and argues the case for high-end factual.
Filming Panorama: The Child Protectors - Emma Loach - Broadcast
2nd November 2009
In the wake of the Baby P scandal, Panorama follows employees in Coventry tasked with identifying “at risk” children to find out if they are being kept safe. Producer/director Emma Loach explains the hurdles that Films of Record had to overcome to make the film.
Health for All - Bob Geldof - Kent TV
2nd November 2009
East Kent charity Health for All sends nurses and midwives from Kent to India and Ethiopia to share medical skills with the developing countries, a subject close to Bob Geldof's heart.
Fighting Passions – Denys Blakeway – The Independent
29th October 2009
BBC2 wanted a film about how it feels to kill. With our troops still engaged in Afghanistan, this was a chance to explore the previously taboo subject of what men do in the most extreme situations in battle.
C&binet forum on what next for TV – Alex Connock - Broadcast
28th October 2009
Alex Connock reports on the government’s C&binet conference on British digital creativity, revealing what Simon Fuller and Ashley Highfield had to say about the future of television.
TV’s Fast Forward evolution – Alex Connock - Broadcast
22nd October 2009
The economic situation is spurring innovation across the TV industry, says Alex Connock.
PSB Funding as digital switchover looms – Roger Graef, Films of Record – Broadcast
25th September 2009
As the digital switchover approaches, the funding for ambitious PSB programming is ever more at risk, writes Roger Graef.
How to protect creativity – Roger Graef, Films of Record – C21
22nd September 2009
UK HITMAKERS: Films Of Record founder and documentary pioneer Roger Graef talks to C21TV about how to protect creativity, boost ratings, the role of the BBC, and how he created one of the first coproduction agreements in factual television.
And Finally…. – Kate Botting, Brook Lapping - Broadcast
10th September 2009
What are your top albums, books and films? A Place Of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel - a novel set in revolutionary France; Darkest Longings - a brilliantly bad romantic novel; anything by Thomas Hardy; Zeffirelli’s Romeo And Juliet; and Bat Out Of Hell by Meatloaf.
Making Storyville about the Beatles – Leslie Woodhead, Brook Lapping – Real Screen
3rd September 2009
In August 1962, I made a little film about four unknown kids playing guitars in a Liverpool cellar. Looking at that film now for my documentary How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, I'm startled by how the energies of the fledgling Fab Four punch through the primitive film technologies of the early '60s.
Recession Bites But the Show must go on – Alex Connock – Grant Thornton Entrepreneurs
26th August 2009
This week, many of the people around the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a bellwether of American showbusiness even before The Eagles put it on the cover of Hotel California, seem to be North London property developers. One I know said there was so little business at home that he had taken his family on a six-week tour of America. That’s the way to play it.
Obeying the Law on Ideas – Roger Graef, Films of Record - Broadcast
16th August 2009
As Films of Record celebrates its 30th anniversary, founder Roger Graef argues that taking lessons from the past on budgets and accountability is the route to regaining creativity.
Bigger Bandwidth needs bigger brands – Alex Connock - Broadcast
4th August 2009
Is the secret to turning Britain into a global media powerhouse about the technical facilities and the digital connectivity, or backing showbiz impresarios who can motivate the talent to create something special, asks Alex Connock.
Manchester needs the Hollywood treatment – Alex Connock – Grant Thornton Entrepreneurs
1st August 2009
Alex Connock, CEO, Ten Alps: Manchester doesn’t just have a spectacular new Media City. It has a new branding too – ‘original modern.’
Things You Didn’t Know About – Eve Kay, Films of Record - Broadcast
13th July 2009
Eve Kay began her career in factual entertainment production over 15 years ago when she worked as a researcher and assistant producer at the BBC and Channel 4.
TV Review – Sarah Murch, Blakeway – Broadcast
9th July 2009
Grosvenor Avenue looks much like any other North London street, but back in the 1970s, it was home to a group of revolutionary young radicals who decided to set up a commune and raise their kids collectively. The kids shared mums and dads, and also a surname – they all became ‘Wilds’. The movement spread across the UK.
Alex Connock - Mediaville
1st July 2009
We might not have got a barbecue Summer, but it does promise to be a vintage Autumn – in the media at least.
Local News pilots mean choices – Alex Connock - Broadcast
1st July 2009
Considering the headline question, Alex Connock says the choice could come down to ITV incumbents after an adrenalin shot of public money vs. newspaper groups with boots on the ground and TV producer partners.
Wake up to the all-media world – Alex Connock – Grant Thornton Entrepreneurs
1st July 2009
Alex Connock, CEO, Ten Alps : EDINBURGH – This was always going to be a TV festival in turmoil, with Big Brother on the way out (two years too late), Google capturing ad revenues from commercial broadcasting, and so much more to discuss.
My Career – Trevor Birney, Below the Radar - Broadcast
18th June 2009
At 17, I started out at one of Ireland’s oldest and most respected weekly newspapers, The Impartial Reporter, based in my home town of Enniskillen. It was family-owned back then and the paper paid for me to go to college to study journalism. It changed my life.
My Life in TV and Radio – Eve Kay, Films of Record - Broadcast
18th June 2009
Eve Kay on receiving death threats, dumbing down and her admiration for Mad Men’s sexist Don Draper.
TV Review – Ruth O’Reilly, Below the Radar – Broadcast
28th May 2009
Like many people, I first heard about Tourette’s Syndrome through John Davidson. John is the star of the extraordinary 1988 film John’s Not Mad, which reveals his life encumbered with tics, making him bark obscenities and jolt involuntarily.
TV interview for Germany's Documentary Campus - Alex Connock
23rd May 2009
360, cross media, future trends, HD, new media, topics, success recipe, online TV, online strategy
How we interviewed a High School shooter – Storm Theunissen, Blakeway - Broadcast
21st May 2009
Going Postal producer Storm Theunissen says fostering community relationships was key.
Killing in the Name of – Blakeway - Broadcast
21st May 2009
When army trainees are sent to the frontlines the cliché kill or be killed goes along with them. Killing on the job is something that soldiers who come back from war often don't talk about, and something civilians can't fathom.
The State of Current Affairs – Trevor Birney, Below the Radar – Real Screen
21st May 2009
Channels in the UK are promising more attention to current affairs programs, but are we seeing the increase yet? In his own words Trevor Birney, MD of UK prodco and Ten Alps company Below the Radar, explains the state of current affairs programming, particularly in relation to the Suzanne Breen case in Ireland.
TV Review - Eve Kay, Films of Record - Broadcast
6th May 2009
Alasdair MacCuish and Eve Kay review the latest TV shows.
Unique pitches – Kate Botting, Brook Lapping – Real Screen
1st May 2009
Brook Lapping EP Kate Botting's tips on bringing something unique to the table for tried and true subject matter.
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