Ostrich Media

Ostrich Media is a British company, best known as the owner of interactive quiz show, Quiz Call. Up until October 2006, it was a wholly owned subsidiary of 4Ventures Limited, which is itself a subsidiary of the public-service commercial broadcaster Channel 4 Television Corporation. However, it has since been purchased by iTouch, a provider of interactive television services.

Sale

Ostrich Media is now wholly owned by iTouch. As a result of the sale, a review of the channel has seen its broadcast hours reduced in accordance with an expected drop in viewers when the channel lost its twenty-four hour DTT space. A significant number of freelance presenters no longer work for the channel due to this drop in hours.

The Company is managed by Directore General of Green Media LTD, Nathan Bond.

From Sunday 12 November, the channel provided Ftn with a three hour block of programming, simulcast with the Quiz Call channel from 10pm through until 1am. This has since ended, and the Quiz Call channel has closed on Sky Digital.

Quiz Call aired on channel 5 until 9 September 2009.

Ostrich Media also runs Brain Box for South African channel E-TV and UTV in Northern Ireland.

On 31 March 2010, UTV purchased Ostrich Media to form a new division to be known as UTV Interactive.

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