Profile

Talpa, based in Laren, the Netherlands, is the holding firm that comprises John de Mol's media activities. The company has its focus on several parts of the international media industry. In the past few years Talpa Holding established itself as a full service development and production company. With Talpa Content the group operates its own creative development unit aimed at formats for television and multimedia concepts. Genres include reality, daily and weekly infotainment magazines, variety, game shows, fiction, comedy and feature film. Talpa Productions is the group's own TV production unit. Talpa Distribution is dedicated to the worldwide licensing of Talpa Content's formats and finished series.

When it comes to the free to air platforms radio and TV, Talpa Media Group is a shareholder in SBS Nederland (www.sbs.nl) which operates three open air TV stations, SBS6, NET5 and Veronica. Radio stations Radio 538, Radio 10 Gold and Slam FM (www.radio538.nl) are fully owned by Talpa.

Talpa Holding operates its own music division Talpa Music (www.talpamusic.nl).

In 2010 Talpa acquired a stake in successful Russian producer Mir Reality. Besides this, Talpa and Shine France have a fifty-fifty joint venture aimed at the exploitation of Talpa formats in Europe's French speaking markets. The cooperation with Warner Horizon for the US market is similar, like the ones with Warner Bros. International Television Production in the UK, Boomerang TV Group in Spain, SPT's Toro Produzioni in Italy and SPT Arabia for North Africa and The Middle East, with MTG subsidiary MAP for a vast part of Sub Sahara Africa, with Axel Springer's Schwartzkopff TV in Germany and CBV in Portugal. Talpa and Shine Australia work together in Australia and New Zealand. Talpa and Nordisk Film TV set up a joint venture aimed at the TV markets in Scandinavia and Finland.