RDF Media

Infobox Company
company_name = RDF Media Group
company_logo =
company_type = Public (AIM [http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/pricesnews/prices/aim.htm?bsg=true&mk=AIMX.LSE&ns=RDF RDF] )
foundation = London, 1993
location = London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Bristol (UK)
Santa Monica and New York City (USA)
key_people = David Frank, Chief Executive
industry = Television production
products =
revenue = £99.298 million GBP (2007)
operating_income =
net_income = £9.104 million GBP (2007)
num_employees = ~ 500
parent =
subsid =
homepage = http://www.rdfmedia.com
footnotes =

RDF Media Group is a British television production company founded in 1993 by David Frank. It was floated on the Alternative Investment Market in 2005.

Programming

RDF television productions are mainly in the factual, entertainment, drama and children’s programming genres. Notable RDF Media productions include:

*"Faking It" Channel 4 & TLC BAFTA Best Features award 2001 & 2002
*"Wife Swap" Channel 4 & ABC BAFTA Best Feature award 2003
*"Secret Millionaire" Channel 4
*"Location, Location, Location" Channel 4
*"Relocation, Relocation" Channel 4
*"" Channel 4 - T4
*"Scrapheap Challenge" Channel 4 a.k.a "Junkyard Wars" TLC
*"Don't Forget the Lyrics" Fox & Sky One
*"Ladette to Lady" ITV1
*"Holiday Showdown" ITV1
*"Masters And Servants" Channel 4
*"The Century of the Self" BBC2
*"The Queen's Castle" BBC 1
*"Rock School" Channel 4
*"Banzai"
*"The Basil Brush Show" CBBC
*"The Queen's Sister" Channel 4
*"City of Vice" Channel 4
*"Monarchy" BBC1 (see below)
*"Escape from Scorpion Island" CBBC

Corporate structure

The content-creating divisions of RDF; The Foundation, IWC Media, Presentable, Radar, RDF Television, RDF USA, and Touchpaper Television, work under the holding group RDF Content. RDF Rights & Management is the holding group for the divisions Pangea Management, RDF Management, and RDF Rights, the rights exploitation and talent management businesses.

Awards

RDF received Broadcast magazine's ‘Best Production Company of the Year Award’ for 2002, 2004 & 2006, the only company to win this coveted award on more than one occasion. Several of its programmes have won BAFTA, RTS, and Rose D'Or awards. http://www.rdfmedia.com/rdfmedia/about/awards/

Tiaragate Affair

In July 2007 RDF found itself at the centre of controversy when the BBC showed a trailer to journalists of an RDF documentary series, A Year with the Queen, that seemed to show the monarch storming out of a photoshoot with celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. It later emerged the Queen was walking into the shoot. Stephen Lambert, RDF's Chief Creative Officer, took responsibility for making a misleading edit for a trailer that was shown to international co-producers, although the promotions company Red Bee subsequently edited the trailer that was shown to journalists. Both the BBC and ITV froze all new commissions from RDF until the completion of an independent inquiry - the Wyatt Report - into the Queengate affair.cite news| title = I made doctored Queen tape| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,,2131632,00.html |publisher = GuardianUnlimited| date = 2007-07-21| accessdate = 2007-08-07] Stephen Lambert resigned from the company as an independent inquiry into the affair was published on 5th October 2007. That report, commissioned by the BBC, said that no-one "consciously set out to defame or misrepresent the Queen in the tape" but also that "RDF edited the footage of the Queen in a cavalier fashion". [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7029940.stm BBC One boss quits over Queen row] , BBC News, October 5, 2007] Both Peter Fincham, Controller of BBC One, and his Head of Publicity, Jane Fletcher, also resigned following the report.cite news| title = BBC1 controller resigns| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/oct/05/bbc.tvfakery1 | publisher = GuardianUnlimited| date = 2007-10-05| accessdate = 2007-11-02]

References

External links

* [http://www.rdfmedia.com/ RDF Media] website
* [http://www.rdfmedia.com/rdfmedia/about/ About RDF Media Group]
* [http://www.growthcompany.co.uk/company/RDF/rdf-media.thtml RDF company profile] at Growth Company Investor website