TAL

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.tenalps.com

Sing it from the mountaintops, Ten Alps has just about all the bases covered in media -- managing content on TV, radio, online, and in print, as well as offering event production and advertising services. The company, which counts Live Aid creator Bob Geldof among its founders and directors, specializes in producing documentaries, publications, and Internet video focused on factual content. The company operates Kent TV (an Internet TV channel) in addition to 14 sector specific channels on Public TV. Productions include the documentaries "Churchill's Forgotten Years", "What Made Mozart Tic?", and "Peaches Geldof: Teenage Mind" (featuring Bob Geldof's daughter), as well as the daytime series "Jeremy Vine Meets".

Key numbers for fiscal year ending March, 2008:
Sales: $162.3M
One year growth: 19.8%
Net income: $5.1M
Income growth: 41.0%

Officers:
Chairman: Brian Walden
Chief Executive: Alex Connock
Finance Director: Nitil Patel

Competitors:
FulcrumTV
Granada International
Mosaic Films

TAL is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings:

• The radio and television programs This American Life
• The Thick ascending limb of loop of Henle
• The transitional administrative law of Iraq, see Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period
• Tiocfaidh ar la which means "our day shall come" in the Irish language
• Transoceanic Abort Landing for the Space Shuttle
• The Alberta Library
• The programming languages:
  • Template Attribute Language
  • Typed Assembly Language
  • Transaction Application Language
• Ralph M. Calhoun Memorial Airport (IATA Code: TAL) in Tanana, Alaska
• The Album Leaf, the solo project of post-rock musician Jimmy LaValle.
• Thunder and Lightning, a webcomic
• Transalpine Line

Additionally, Tal can refer to:

• Tal: His Marvelous Adventures with Noom-Zor-Noom (1929) a fantasy adventure novel by Paul Fenimore Cooper.
• Israel Tal (*1924), general IDF
• Mikhail Tal (1936–1992), Latvian World Chess Champion
• Tala (music), a term for rhythmic patterns from Indian classical music
• the Hebrew name Tal, meaning Dew
• the Jewish piyyut known as Tefillat Tal
• A main character from Garth Nix's The Seventh Tower series.
• A fictional unit of Martian time, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars series
• A greeting from John Norman's Gor series of novels.
• The Tibetan and Nepali word for 'lake'.
• The artist Tal R, see Saatchi Gallery Exhibit of Tal R's work
• The singer Tal Bachman.
• Tal, Madhya Pradesh town.
• Tal Farlow (1921-1998), jazz guitarist.
• tal, the Hindi word for a sesame seed
• Tal, a traditional Korean mask.
• Joseph Tal (1910-2008), Israeli composer

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)