| 28/03/2008 - Shares Magazine - It's show time for DCD
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| Women are being given free reign on how to run the world in a new reality TV show recently commissioned to independent producer and distributor DCD Media (DCD:AIM) from Channel 4.
Shares say: The continued focus on expansion holds great promise for the long-term investor. BUY |
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| 25/03/2008 - The Financial Times - Women rule for DCD Media
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| DCD Media, the Aim-listed television production and distribution company, has won a commission worth about £2.5m to produce a UK version of the US TV series When Women Rule the World for Channel 4. |
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| 21/01/2008 - The AIM & PLUS Newsletter - Buy DCD Media
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| DCD Media (DCD) was founded by its current CEO, Chris Hunt, in 1999 and is currently one of the top 10 independent television production and distribution companies in the UK. The company makes over 600 television programmes a year for a raft of broadcasters worldwide and over the past couple of years the company has grown rapidly through the acquisition of rival firms and currently has eight operating companies. Read full profile on
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| 06/12/2007 - Shares Magazine - Good viewing from DCD
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| Independent producer and distributor DCD Media (DCD: AIM) has snapped up two new television commissions, worth more than $6 million through its September Films subsidiary, which was acquired in August. |
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| 16/11/2007 - Money Week - DCD Media gamble of the week
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| The UK market for domestically commissioned TV programmes by independent production companies is worth around £1.1bn a year, and is growing annually by around 5%. This growth rate is likely to accelerate due to the vast potential of digital TV. |
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| 15/11/2007 - Shares Magazine - Elstein tunes in DCD shares
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| Following publication of full-year results David Elstein, the non-executive chairman of DCD Media (DCD:AIM) invested more than £300, 000 in 525,000 shares in the company, taking his stake up to 1.62% of the total equity.
DCD is a broadly-based independent TV company to build on encouraging results for last year, showing turnover doubled and an improving £1.4 million operating profit.
News on recent trading has also been upbeat – a factor not missed by house broker Evolution Securities, which upped it’s forecast EPS 6.9p for the current year, placing the shares, at 62.5p, on a PE of barely nine.
Shares says: Shares rallied on the results and on Elstein’s investment, and the company looks well placed to continue its growth.BUY |
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| 06/11/2007 - The Financial Times - Sales lift sees DCD in black
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| DCD Media, the production and distribution company chaired by David Elstein, moved into profit after doubling revenue. The maker of programmes such as (...) the one-off adaptation 'Wind In The Willows' with Matt Lucas as Toad, saw sales reach £26.8m for the year to June 30, up from £13.3m last time. |
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| 06/11/2007 - Daily Mirror - Abba to Fabber
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| Documentary maker DCD Media, which has created films on The Beatles and Abba, boosted its profit to £5.8m in the year to July - up from £3.1m. And bosses predict more good news after signing a deal with the BBC to make a thriller, The Last Enemy. It also has the rights to sell comedy series on DVD. |
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| 06/11/2007 - The Daily Mail
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| Independent TV company DCD Media, which produces Bridezillas, the reality wedding series by September Films, the highest ever rated show on the Women's Entertainment channel in the US, jumped 5p to 59p following impressive annual results. Turnover more-than-doubled to £26.8m and adjusted pre-tax profits came in at £1.36m, compared with a £300,000 loss last time. |
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| 08/08/2007 - The Guardian - TV action
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| It is always nice to see company directors putting their money where their mouths are. Yesterday DCD Media, a TV production distribution group, completed the acquisition of three independent TV producers, underwent a 100 for one share consolidation, raised £8.5m with an institutional placing and another £4m via convertible loans. |
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| 30/07/2007 - Televisual Magazine - DCD: on the hunt for more deals
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| Hard on the heels of acquiring three indies in one mega-deal, DCD Media chief executive Chris Hunt says the super indie remains in the market for more acquisitions. |
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| 19/07/2007 - Shares Magazine - Indie boom continues with DCD
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| Independent producer and distributor DCD Media (DCD: AIM) has bought a trio of independent TV programme-makers in deals worth a combined £19.1 million.
Shares says: Making solid progress in expanding its business, which should prove fruitful in the long-term. BUY. |
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| 12/07/2007 - Broadcast - Triple deal turns DCD into latest super-indie
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| DCD swoops on Prospect Pictures, September Films and West Park Pictures in £19m deal.
DCD Media propelled itself to super-indie status this week when it became the second UK producer in just over six months to swoop on three indies in a single deal. |
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| 11/07/2007 - Evening Standard - Triple buy broadens picture for DCD Media
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| A SOHO media production company chaired by former channel 5 boss David Elstein is poised for the big time after snapping up three television firms for £19 million. |
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| 01/07/2007 - Red Hot Penny Shares - BUY
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| DCD's subsidiary Box TV has been commissioned by ITV1 to produce 'Affinity', a two-hour drama based on the novel by Sarah Waters. This project has an estimataed turnover in excess of £2m, while the international rights for the production will be exploited by DCD Media's in-house distributor NBDtv. BUY. |
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| 18/06/2007 - Broadcast - Box TV lands £2m ITV drama
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| ITV has commissioned Box TV to produce a £2 million drama adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel Affinity. Writer Andrew Davies, who also adapted Waters' Tipping the Velvet, will make Affinity into a two-hour erotic drama. |
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| 17/06/2007 - The Mail on Sunday - DCD's erotic drama from Velvet writer
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| Television producer DCD Media has secured a £2 million deal to dramatise Sarah Waters’ novels to be dramatised and follows successful adaptations of Tipping The Velvet and Fingersmith. |
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| 06/06/2007 - Red Hot Penny Shares - Stop Press
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| DCD’s distribution subsidiary NBD TV, made its highest ever sales at the world’s biggest television market, MIP TV, at Cannes. DCD’s business model involves production and distribution and there are obvious synergies between the two. BUY.
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| 17/05/2007 - The Times - Tiddler
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| DCD Media, down 0.02p to 0.92p, was understood to have attracted record business at a recent television industry fair in France. Pre-sales of its BBC drama The Last Enemy will probably mean that its £5.9 million revenue target for the series will be exceeded. |
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| 16/05/2007 - Red Hot Penny Shares - DCD Media (DCD) - Biggest Ever Commission
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| Subsidiary Iambic Productions is to produce a new Saturday night prime time entertainment series for ITV. This is Iambic’s biggest commission ever and will consist of two shows entitled The Truth About Boy Bands. It promises to “lift the veil on the gritty reality of iconic male groups over the last four decades.” I can hardly wait! BUY. |
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| 23/04/2007 - The Daily Mail - Boy band boost
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| Shares of TV production company DCD Media will be in the groove today after it won the job of making a boy band show for ITV.
The company will compose two one-hour programmes provisionally entitled 'The Truth About Boy Bands', charting the rise and fall of ensembles including the Monkees and the New Kids on the Block.
The shows are scheduled to air in June. They could generate turnover of around half a million pounds. |
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| 20/04/2007 - Investors Chronicle - Buy
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| Tip update: It has taken DCD a long time to become profitable, but it’s now there. Speculative buy.
DCD MEDIA (DCD) is much bigger than it was, as the six-month sales to end-December 2006 indicate. |
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| 03/04/2007 - Red Hot Penny Shares - Portfolio Updates: DCD Media, Reassuring Interims
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| Interim results reassured, with DCD recording a small profit on turnover of £13m. Its media production subsidiaries are busy, and DCD’s integrated model, which enables it to sell its own content in the form of DVDs, is working well. BUY. |
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| 23/03/2007 - NBD to offer catalogue at Mip TV
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| NBDtv, part of production and distribution group DCD Media is launching a range of pop and classical music programming at Mip TV. |
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| 08/03/2007 - Shares Magazine - Dramatic development for DCD
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| Rachel Robson looks at the prospects of DCD Media following its BBC deal.
The future is looking pretty rosy for production firm DCD Media (DCD:AIM) thanks to a BBC deal, won through subsidiary Box TV, to produce its biggest-ever project, The Last Enemy.
Shares says; Going form strength to strengths and with several business opportunities opening up, now could be a good time to invest. |
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| 07/03/2007 - Red Hot Penny Shares - DCD Media: The Last Enemy
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| For the BBC subsidiary Box TV is to produce The Last Enemy – “a shocking and compelling look at how technology could transform Britain into a surveillance society”. This £5.9m production will be Box TV’s biggest ever project, while DCD could generate further revenue from the worldwide exploitation rights. BUY. |
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| 05/02/2007 - C21 Media - BBC zooms in on surveillance thriller
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| The BBC has commissioned a £5.9m (US$11.5m) contemporary political thriller from Prime Suspect scribe Peter Berry, looking at the dangers of the UK becoming a surveillance society. |
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| 05/02/2007 - The Independent - DCD Media wins major role with BBC
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| DCD Media, the AIM-listed television production company, has won its biggest contract to date with the BBC. The win, which will be announced today will see DCD’s Box TV unit receive a £5.9m commission to produce The Last Enemy, a major drama serial expected to be broadcast on BBC1 this year. |
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| 01/01/2007 - Red Hot Penny Shares - DCD Media (DCD) a “Favourable outlook”
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| Chairman David Elstein told the AGM that DCD has a ‘full slate’ of large-scale projects ‘contributing to a favourable outlook for the 2008 financial year'. BUY.
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| 01/12/2006 - Red Hot Penny Shares - Thank you for the Music
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| Subsidiary Iambic Productions is to produce two new programmes.... The share price has fallen since the final results, due to DCD’s decision to adopt a more conservative accounting policy. However, broker Cenkos points out that all of DCD’s divisions are performing strongly, and that DCD is demonstrating the ability to integrate acquired businesses, achieve economies of scale and lessen risk by reducing exposure to single projects. Director Richard Price has bought 512,905 shares at 0.91p. BUY
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| 17/11/2006 - Investors Chronicle
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| DCD Media is the new name for Digital Classics. It floated in 1999 with the aim of selling music over the internet, but it’s only now, seven years later, that the idea is starting to take off. |
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| 09/11/2006 - Shares Magazine - Transformative year for DCD Media
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| Turnover soared 329% to £13.3million at the television production company on the back of contributions from three acquisitions made during the period. |
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| 01/11/2006 - Red Hot Penny Shares - DCD Media beating sales expectations
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| Full year results from DCD Media, which makes and distributes programmes with a focus on music, revealed sales of £13.3m, well ahead of the forecast £9.8m, and “turnover expectations for the group have been raised”. Heavy cost for goodwill and rights amortisation, group reorganisation and the set up costs of the DVD and Education divisions, pushed the bottom line into loss. But DCD is confident for the coming year and is poised to make further acquisitions. BUY.
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| 31/10/2006 - The Sun - Secret of Success
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| Television production and distribution firm DCD Media saw 2006 sales jump £4million above forecasts to £13.3million. Profits for the firm, which televised last year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in the US starring Gisele Bundchen, almost doubled to £3.1million.
London based DCD recently bought Box TV, distributor NBDtv, and pop video makers Done and Dusted. Chiefs said they benefited from belonging to a “larger entity”.
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| 30/10/2006 - Box TV's production Bon Voyage
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| Box TV’s production Bon Voyage aired on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th October on ITV1 to excellent ratings (with the highest audience share in its slot on the Tuesday and an even larger audience tuning in for Part 2) and strong reviews.
“What a screamer of a rollercoaster” wrote Tim Teeman in The Times. Read his full review on http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,26430-2418861.html.
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| 19/10/2006 - Broadcast - Zenith drama boss takes shows to Box
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| Box TV is acquiring the rights to the dramas Zenith Entertainment was developing when it went bust and has taken on its former head of film and drama, Adrian Bate. Bate will work alongside Box founding producer Gub Neal to expand the indie's development and production.
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| 02/08/2006 - The Financial Times - Hitting the V spot
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| Done and Dusted, part of Aim-listed DCD Media, has won two new contracts.
It will produce and direct the MTV Video Music Awards next month and devise and stage this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for CBS. The latter show, the acceptable face of lingerie in the prudish US broadcasting culture, is expected to contribute $5m (£3.7m) to turnover against $2m last year when D&D only televised it. |
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| 15/06/2006 - The Independent – The Investment Column
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| DCD shares have doubled on the back of all the positive news since the start of the year and yesterday closed at 1.2p. Although the company is a true penny stock it is by no means a minnow – its market capitalisation tops £50m. |
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| 14/06/2006 - The Times– Beeb signs up Toad from junior market TV company
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| An AIM-listed independent television company is to produce a feature-length adaptation of The Wind in the Willows for BBC One that is expected to become a corner stone of the Corporation’s Christmas schedule. The Times has learnt.
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| 15/05/2006 - The Independent –DCD Media Boosted by New Music Show Contract for ITV
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| ITV has commissioned an AIM-listed media company to produce its Saturday morning music television slot. DCD Media has won commission from the broadcaster to make the programme that will re-place the long-running CD:UK. The news will be unveiled today and is expected to boost shares in the AIM group. |
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| 27/04/2006 - C21 Media – ITV says Bon Voyage to Box TV
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| ITV has handed Box Television, the UK indie acquired by DCD Media for £6m (US$10m) last year, a commission for a two-part drama with a budget of over £3m (US$5m). |
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| 27/04/2006 - Financial Times – Holiday from hell
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| DCD Media, an Aim-listed production company, will announce today that its Box TV subsidiary will produce an ITV mini-series called Bon Voyage. It’s about a touring holiday to France that turns into “every parent’s worst nightmare”. Since Box TV also did Sweeney Todd for the BBC, you know what to expect. |
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| 20/03/2006 - The Independent - DCD ready to switch on to high-growth programme
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| DCD Media has transformed itself over the past three months and this process will be rounded off today when the TV programme producer and distributor tells the City that trading in the current year is well ahead of expectations. |
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| 17/03/2006 - Broadcast – Top 150 Indie Survey, DCD Media at 20th position
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| Principal and AIM-listed DCD Media plc purchased Done & Dusted, Box TV and Iambic, giving David Elstein-chaired group an £18m turnover and top 20 position in the league. The company hopes to eventually create a company with a market capitalization of around £50m. |
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| 17/03/2006 - Investors Chronicle - DCD Media (DCD)
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| DCD Media (formerly Digital Classics) floated in 1999 with the aim of selling classical music over the internet. It has struggled ever since and its only now – as it negotiates deals with internet service providers and awaits the arrival of the new Freeview internet set-top box – that this service is likely to become profitable. |
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| 09/03/2006 - C21 Media - NBD TV wrestles with sumo launch
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| DCD (fka Digital Classics)-owned distributor NBD TV is launching a new sports entertainment series called World Sumo Challenge Tour at MipTV and has already sold it to a network in the UK |
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| 21/02/2006 - Evening Standard
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| AIM listed company was 0.3p firmer at 0.73p after completing the £12 million reverse takeover of Done and Dusted, which televises rock concerts for the likes of Robbie Williams and Madonna. Digital Classics chief executive Chris Hunt said the company’s NBD TV and Box TV, which is behind the recent BBC production of Sweeney Todd, are trading ahead of expectations. |
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| 03/02/2006 - Broadcast - Digital Classics seeks new buy after Done deal
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| Digital Classics is looking to buy another indie this year after acquiring three companies in two months, and is considering a move into factual programmes, writes Geoff White. |
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