Geldof's Production Company Expands

A major UK factual media company co-founded by former rock star and entrepreneur Bob Geldof has further expanded.
Ten Alps, which produces factual TV programmes as well as online and print content, has acquired Belfast-based Below the Radar in a deal worth almost £800,000.
This latest acquisition continues Ten Alps' strategy of buying TV production companies with a track record in high-end factual and current
The company was founded in 2006 by NI journalists Trevor Birney and Ruth O'Reilly after careers in newspapers, radio and TV.
The company has 11 full-time staff and in-house edit suites close to BBC headquarters on Ormeau Avenue in central Belfast, Northern Ireland.
It has made current affairs and factual films for BBC Newsnight, RTÉ Prime Time, Channel 4 News and BBC Northern Ireland.
Below the Radar has produced a number of ground-breaking programmes including an investigation into controversial DNA technology used in the police inquiries into the Omagh bombing and the death of Robert Holohan in Cork in 2004, which won a Justice Media Award in Dublin last year.
Among the commissions it is currently working on is a landmark documentary on Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and a three-part series for Irish language broadcaster TG4 on the state of health services on the island of Ireland.
Below The Radar joins Ten Alps' existing stable of documentary production companies which includes Films of Record, Blakeway and Brook Lapping which have offices in London and Manchester.
Ten Alps' companies produce for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and international channels such as US Discovery networks, plus radio for BBC Radio 2 and 4.
(BMcC/JM)