Founded her own production company, Gallus Besom, in 1989, which was renamed Ideal World in 1993. The company merged in 2004 with Wark Clements, the company co-owned by fellow broadcaster
Kirsty Wark and her husband Alan Clements, to form IWC Media. The partners then sold the new company in 2005 to media company RDF Media for an estimated £12 million.