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Ostrich Media is a United Kingdom (UK) company, created in 2005 as a wholly owned subsidiary of 4Ventures Limited (the commercial subsidiary of the public-service commercial broadcaster Channel 4 Television Corporation). The company is currently part of UTV and has run Brain Box for both UTV and South African channel, E-TV. It was also the owner of QuizCall, the UK's first dedicated quiz television channel.〔 ==Sale== Following a sale in November 2006, Ostrich Media became wholly owned by iTouch. Reports suggested the reasons for the sale included: * the fact that Ostrich's QuizCall channel was not performing to expectations * fears that the subsidiary might damage the Channel 4 brand * a pending investigation of participation TV by the regulator Ofcom and a desire by Channel 4 not to appear too aggressively commercial ahead of an Ofcom review into public aervice broadcasting. * a desire by Channel 4 to free the spectrum that it occupied on Freeview for other purposes. Consequently, whilst the sale included QuizCall's space on Sky Digital, Channel 4 retained the space the channel had used on Freeview. As a result of the loss of space, QuizCall stopped broadcasting 24-hours per day on Freeview on 15 November 2006. Following the sale, a review of the channel saw its broadcast hours reduced to accommodate an expected drop in viewers when the channel lost its 24-hour DTT space. A significant number of freelance presenters ceased working for the channel due to the reduction in broadcast time. The company was managed at the time by Director-General of Green Media LTD, Nathan Bond. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ostrich Media」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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