RDF Media Group
Type Public (AIM RDF)
Founded London, 1993
Headquarters London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Bristol (UK)
Santa Monica and New York City (USA)
Key people David Frank, Chief Executive
Industry Television production
Revenue £99.298 million GBP (2007)
Net income £9.104 million GBP (2007)
Employees ~ 500
Website http://www.rdfmedia.com

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.

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Programming

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

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

Main article: A Year with The Queen

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 Tiaragate affair.[1] 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".[2] Both Peter Fincham, Controller of BBC One, and his Head of Publicity, Jane Fletcher, also resigned following the report.[3]

References

  1. ^ "I made doctored Queen tape", GuardianUnlimited (2007-07-21). Retrieved on 7 August 2007. 
  2. ^ BBC One boss quits over Queen row, BBC News, October 5, 2007
  3. ^ "BBC1 controller resigns", GuardianUnlimited (2007-10-05). Retrieved on 2 November 2007. 

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Media"


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