RDF Media Group PLC

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 Stephen Lambert, Chief Creative Officer
Industry	Television production
Revenue	£59.51 million GBP (2006)
Operating income	£3.75 million GBP (2006)
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.

Programming

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

• Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
• Banzai
• The Block
• Faking It
• Holiday Showdown
• The Queen's Castle
• Rock School
• Room for Improvement
• Scrapheap Challenge a.k.a Junkyard Wars
• Wife Swap
• Survival of the Richest
• Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands

Queengate Affair

Main article: A Year with The Queen

In July 2007 RDF found itself at the centre of a huge controversy when it showed footage to journalists from the BBC 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 in to the shoot. RDF issued an "unreserved" apology to both the BBC and the Queen. Stephen Lambert, RDF's Chief Creative Officer, admitted he was personally responsible for making the deceptive edit. Both the BBC and ITV froze all new commissions from RDF until the completion of an independent inquiry into the Queengate 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]

Corporate structure

The content-creating divisions of RDF, 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.

External links

• RDF Media website

References

• About RDF Media Group
• RDF company profile at Growth Company Investor website

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