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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.
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.
2000. 31 January – Carlton Kids stops broadcasting. [5]1 February – Discovery Kids launches on the OnDigital platform as a direct replacement for Carlton Kids. 27 May – Boomerang launches to broadcast classic cartoons from the Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Warner Bros archive programme library, as well as freeing up its sister network of many classics in the schedule.
1922: Charles Francis Jenkins' first public demonstration of television principles. A set of static photographic pictures is transmitted from Washington, D.C. to the Navy station NOF in Anacostia by telephone wire, and then wirelessly back to Washington; Philo Farnsworth first describes an image dissector tube, which uses cesium to produce images electronically, but will not produce a working ...
ITV Central, previously known as Central Independent Television, Carlton Central, ITV1 for Central England and commonly referred to as simply Central, is the Independent Television franchisee for the Midlands. [ 1 ] It was created following the restructuring of ATV and began broadcasting on 1 January 1982. The service is owned and operated by ...
1950s. 1954. 30 July – The Television Act 1954 paves the way for the launch of commercial television in the UK. 26 October – The Independent Television Authority (ITA) awards the first franchises which include weekday and weekend franchises for London,. [1] The weekday franchise is awarded to Associated-Rediffusion (weekdays) with the ...
This is a timeline of the British company ITV Digital Channels and its predecessors Granada Sky Broadcasting and Carlton Communications, and digital channels of other ITV-related companies. The timeline does not include events related to ITV network 's flagship channel ( ITV1 / STV / UTV ).
Carlton Communications plc 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.