CoastPark plc

CoastPark plc started operation on the 1st December 2006 after the merger of Coast Media & Park Televison was completed.

History
CoastPark plc is the result of the merger between Coast Media & Park Television. Coast Media was the franchise holder of Clydern Television in Central Scotland and Mercia Weekend Television the Weekend Midlands franchise. Park Television had at the time no franchises after losing its Borders franchise to Emoa. The company was then formed as a Coast Media 55% and Park Television 45% share setup. Coast Media had more control due to it being the franchise holder of the franchises the company would then hold. After the merger was completed Mercia Weekend Television was transfered over from Orry (Owner Of Coast Media) to Daniel (Owner Of Park Television). Daniel and the Park Television team continued to run Mercia for a short while until a deal was completed between Emoa and CoastPark plc which you see Mercia Weekend Television be sold to Emoa in return to the Borders & The Isle Of Man franchise which CoastPark plc would operate. Rumours then circulated that TVB would return and shortly after the deal Emoa in the Borders ceased broadcasting and the TVB ident faded onto the screen with test transmissions through the night. In the 2007 franchise round CoastPark plc was successful to retain its franchises and a deal is currently in progress for the company to buy shares in the Network SIX digital service SIX MIX, CoastPark plc hope to buy all shares and takeover the channel but the result of this deal is currently unknown.

On-Air Identity
The CoastPark plc name is not shown on screens, the regional names are the only names shown with the SIX name. During merger proposals it was stated that CoastPark plc did not intend to bring there two franchises into one and broadcast networked with one identity. TVB and Clydern broadcasted separately with there own style and graphics until Early 2007 were a new graphical overhaul of both franchises and CoastPark was launched which meant both TVB and Clydern used the same font and style but had seperate idents. TVB and Clydern now run similar on air identity's which for some is worrying move towards one networked identity. CoastPark plc has submitted applications to renew its franchises in the 2008 franchise round, they were succesful for a second year running in renewing there franchise agreements.

TeleEire
Early 2008 CoastPark, SBC and Taff Media completed a deal which would see them buy 45% of the Republic of Ireland franchise of Network Six, TeleEire, the biggest Network Six franchise. Even tho CoastPark now owns 45% of the station it hasnt come forward and changed anything and TeleEire continues as normal.