The Global Media Business Weekly

BMG Music acquires Deep East

Music. BMG Production Music has acquired independent UK company Deep East Music and historic French production music label Tele Music. Deep East Music was started in London in 2007 by entrepreneurs Ciaran McNeaney and Alex Marchant. It incorporates the labels DEM, Zest and Scorched Score as well as representing Q-Factory in the UK. Tele Music was founded in 1966 by Roger Tokarz. The company enjoyed early success when Pierre Bachelet composed the theme music for a TV ad for a French brand of tights. They went on to create custom music for hundreds of radio and TV productions in France, including the French version of Big Brother, Loft Story, which first broadcast in the early 2000s. The company also owns a raft of 1960s and 1970s recordings. Terms of the transactions not disclosed.

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