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How Do We Value The TV Industry? | RTS London Convention 2024

How do you value a creative company? Is a topline price dependent on its strategic value or the worth of its Intellectual Property?

With the recent takeover of All3Media by Redbird, what are investors looking for, and is consolidation the only way forward? What does this mean for the media landscape and could consolidation compromise creativity?

Speakers: Jane Featherstone – Co-Founder and CCO, SISTER

Harry Hampson – Global Chairman - Investment Banking/Corporate & Investment Bank EMEA, J.P. Morgan

Richard Sharp – Partner, SW7 and Former Chair, BBC

Our friend in the Midlands: Caren Davies on the ambition and heart of Birmingham

Caren Davies (Credit: RTS Midlands)

Over recent weeks, many column inches have been written concerning the success of the Birmingham-inspired TV series Peaky Blinders.

Its move from BBC Two to BBC One has been seamless. More people watch it in the Midlands than anywhere else in the country.

Peakys has undoubtedly put Birmingham firmly back on the national and global map, but the city’s reputation struggles to shake off some outdated prejudices.

BBC announces largest investment in Children's programming in a generation

The move, said BBC Director-General Tony Hall, reaffirmed the Corporation’s “commitment to our youngest audiences,” putting “children’s [programming] front and centre throughout the charter renewal process.”

The expanded budget will fund an enhanced online offering for children, as well as maintaining current children’s programming on the BBC’s children’s television channels, CBeebies and CBBC.