Park Television

The Beginning
Park Television Ltd had been in operation since 2002 providing television programming to channels plus owning shares in the growing world of digital telelvision. From its base in the centre of Carlisle at The Botchergate Studios Park Television was a growing name in television production. In November 2002 Park announced that they were going to persue a television channel that they could all there own, in December 2002 they investigated launching there own digital channel but this proved to costly at the time. In January 2003 Park Television aquired the Borders & Isle Of Man franchise on the then APFS Network. From there studios in the centre of Carlisle they launched Television Borders the new name for APFS in the Borders. Figures were released in March 2003 that viewing figures of APFS had gone up dramatically since the introduction of TVB and the liked Park programmes off digital.

TVB/Head Office Move & Magnet Launch
Park Television continued to broadcast a sustainable service in the Borders to viewers but behind the scenes there building was crumbling. A survey carried out on The Botchergate Studios showed that without costly building work it would become structly unsafe to use. Park Television then aquired space in a new media complex off Wigton Road in Carlisle for them to move there operations to. The last day of broadcasting from Botchergate came soon after and at midnight TVB began broadcasting from there new complex at Wigton. During this time NNW the APFS provider for the North West of England handed back its franchise and Park bidding for it and won with there bid called Magnet. Magnet launched soon after and Park also launched there ill-fated Park News Network which merged both TVB's and Magnet's news operations into one so that they could share resources across the two stations. This angered many in the network as it was seen as a form of networking between two stations, something the network was dead against.

Year 2004
This anger was publically shown in the 2004 franchise rounds where Park Television lost there North West franchise Magnet but retained there TVB franchise. A management change also occured as many shareholders pulled out and where replaced and both the Park News Network and plans to bid for another franchise were both scrapped. Instead Park signed a deal with Palmer Communciations to launch a station for the Republic Of Ireland using APFS branding calling it orignally APFS Ireland. The station launched on Sky Ireland and for the first few months was very successful, it featured complex news coverage, irish language programming and also the a selection of programmes from the network under the tagling "your favourite mix of apfs", even tho the majority of programming came from both Park and Palmer's library and the way the programmes from other stations was judged were how they performed on TVB and Palmer's Channel Island's franchise. This angered the network once again and main players in the network pulled the programmes from APFS Ireland, to save its name Palmer Communications pulled out of APFS Ireland. Park to save itself from going bust then put APFS Ireland Inc into administration and the channel ceased broadcasting suddenly after New Years Day 2005.

Year 2005
For the remainder of 2005, Park continued to broadcast successfully TVB. In mid-2005 Park bidded for the Midlands franchise under the name Spectrum and was not successful due to its past. During 2005 Park reached yet another deal this time with RTL to launch a set of digital apfs channels, these were apfs gold, apfs kids and apfs sport. These channels were over budget and ceased just months after launching, putting Park's name into tatters once again.

Year 2006
In the 2006 franchise round Park lost its only franchise TVB after the ill-fated 6-Net relaunch which nearly crippled the 6 Network. Park contined to produce programmes for the network and digital networks. Park Television then entered talks with close partner Coast Media over a possible merger, suprising to the two companies the network approved and after many public drafts of merger proposals the companies were merged into one on 1st of December 2006 to form CoastPark plc.

Today
Today the shareholders of Park Television still operate with the shareholder of Coast Media as CoastPark plc running two successful franchises and also owning shares in other Network Six companies.