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Carlton Television (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties from 9.25am every Monday to 5.15pm every Friday. [1] The company is now managed with London Weekend Television as a single entity ( ITV London ), but the two companies are still separately licensed.
This is a timeline of the history of Carlton Television (now known as ITV London), and of its former owner Carlton Communications.Carlton Television has provided the ITV service for London on weekdays since 1993, and Carlton Communications took over the services for the Midlands, South West England, the West of England and Wales before merging with Granada plc to form ITV plc.
30 March – Channel 5, the UK's fifth and last terrestrial channel, launches at 6.00 pm. Coverage is limited with many parts of Scotland unable to receive the new channel. April. April – Establishment of Scottish Screen, the national body for film and television in Scotland. May. 1 May – Television coverage of the 1997 General Election.
21 May – Serena Martin wins the 1997 series of Junior MasterChef on BBC1. 23 May – The long-running Channel 4 game show Countdown celebrates its 2000th edition with a special retrospective programme. [47] 24–26 May – Channel 4 dedicates the Spring Bank Holiday weekend to sitcoms.
11 July – ITV relaunches OnDigital as ITV Digital in an attempt to better compete with Sky. 27 July – S2 closes and consequently ITV2 starts broadcasting in Scotland. 1 August - Granada buys Border Television, it would the final ITV consolidation before Granada & Carlton merged 3 years later. 11 August – The ITV Sport Channel launches. It ...
In March 1998, CTE was renamed as Carlton International Media Limited. ITV Studios. During the merger of Granada Media and Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004, the international division of Granada Media was folded into Carlton International, which assumed the name of Granada International.
The history of ITV, the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies "Independent Television" commercial network, goes back to 1955.. Independent Television began as a network of independently-owned regional companies that were both broadcasters and programme makers, beginning with four companies operating six stations in three large regions in 1955–1956, and gradually expanding to 17 stations in ...
Carlton was a British media company. It was led by Michael P. Green and listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1983 until 2 February 2004, when it was bought by Granada plc in a corporate takeover to form ITV plc. Carlton shareholders gained approximately 32% of ITV plc.