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The company acquired a 20% stake in GMTV a month after it won the ITV breakfast franchise 1991 and bought 18% stake in Independent Television News in 1993. In response, Green sold his existing 5 percent share for £1 million. There’s plenty of adverts and continuity worth reviewing here, and as ever here are the highlights. A year later the name was changed to Carlton Communications when the company went public. The Times, Monday, 16 March 1987; pg.

What was unusual about this presentation was that it was completely unbranded, with not even a reference to ITV anywhere.

They began with a rather tacky entertainment show called A Carlton New Year which was hosted by Chris Tarrant and I was so horrified by what I saw I turned off after about ten minutes.

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So call now, because the contestant who gets the chance to play tomorrow night might be about to party like it’s 1999. Carlton increased its portfolio of media companies with the acquisition of Zenith Productions for £7.3 million. The future Prime Minister, David Cameron was director of corporate affairs at Carlton from July 1994 to February 2001, his only venture into employment outside of the political world. But James stops filming in March and viewers will see his exit in May.

It also features a website address, which looks a little odd alongside a symbol that was introduced in 1989, which makes you realise how long it was used for (it was finally retired from the screen a year later in 1998). Sky was excluded from the eventual company, ONdigital, for competition reasons, and this marked the start of Granada and Carlton working more closely together.[17].

CITV Memories – Stop That Laughing At The Back. There’s then a Carlton ident (the Christmas look has left the screen by now, these idents were used until September 1999 when the star symbol was introduced) into The Bill (also sponsored by Toyota). 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 was a British media company.

[24], Ladbroke sale fuels takeover speculation.Cliff Feltham. As well as being the parent company of Carlton Television Limited it was also involved in several other media and broadcasting businesses and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

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“Oscar the alpaca is an avid Carlton fan and often is spotted engrossed in the games on a Saturday,” the 46-year-old, who was at the game, said. [22], In late 2003, Carlton and Granada finally agreed to merge.

After Emmerdale ends, The Bill is coming next. Carlton also produced lots of local programming around this time but not much of it was well received by viewers or the regulator. The content shown in this video is not owned by me. It is remarkable looking back now to discover just how much effort was put into shows that were shown at around 2am and some viewers still fondly remember them, although of course they weren’t exactly big budget stuff.

Like this story? In 2000, United Business & Media proposed a merger with Carlton. The Carlton brand continued being used by Carlton Screen Advertising (and then only in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) by Dermot Hanrahan and Claude Morgan inc until it was renamed Wide Eye Media in 2014, ending the use of the Carlton name 10 years after the creation of ITV plc. Just about all the other regional strands had ended by this point. When Thames lost their London weekday licence it was something of a shock, and when they finally left the screen as the clock hit midnight on 1 January 1993, Carlton was launched. There are yet more sales, that “daddy or chips?” advert, Cable & Wireless, and Daz with Michael Barrymore, who is very pleased that there’s 50% Extra Free (“now that’s a bargain worth catching”). Again the idents would begin with various colours and graphics that were designed to suit the mood of the programme that they were introducing, such as sports coverage or drama.

Things changed in 1991 though. The main news programme was London Tonight (with the daytime version being London Today). Where is Heartbeat star David Lonsdale now. The Carlton name didn’t really have anything to do with the region, although some people thought that it stood for “Calling All Real Londoners Turn Off Now”. Carlton never had in-vision continuity, and because they launched in the 24-hour era they never closed down either, or used a clock.

Carlton shareholders gained approximately 32% of ITV plc.

WATCH: Coleen Nolan in tears over sisters' cancer diagnosis. After a while though ITV Nightscreen was upgraded to feature Powerpoint-style graphics, and this programme continues to this day, seemingly taking up more and more airtime.

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Carlton's consolidated gross profit reached £38.1 million in 1985, mostly coming from IVC, MPC, and Carlton Studios. Various presenters from Thames News and LWT News were also kept on including Anna-Maria Ashe and Paul Greene. Also at this point a star was added to the existing Carlton symbol, and this was how it stayed on screen until October 2002. ... and its popularity has even grown a new audience thanks to ITV … We begin with adverts during Emmerdale (sponsored by Toyota). Courts then tell us that they’re going to be open on New Year’s Day, that’s great. In 1999, Technicolor continued expansion with the acquisitions of wholly owned businesses in Canada and Australia and started the development of digital cinema within two years. The alpaca appeared five minutes before half-time and evaded attempts to usher it off the pitch for so long players were left feeling cold by the time play restarted.

These continued until 1999, by which point Carlton had launched several new digital channels as part of OnDigital, such as Carlton Kids, Carlton Cinema and Carlton World, but these had all closed by 2003. My sister always liked to set the video for a rock music show called Noisy Mothers. They just have to answer eight questions in one minute, the more they get right, the more money they win, with the top prize being £1,000. Carlton Television Carlton Television first went to air on January 1st 1993, replacing previous holder Thames Television.
The video of Oscar was filmed by Claire Armstrong, Ilkley’s Covid officer and wife to the first-team coach, on her phone. There isn’t much about Mind The Gap online beyond its entry on the UK Game Shows website (and well done to them for remembering it in the first place), and it doesn’t have a Wikipedia entry, although there is an edition on YouTube, but I wanted to write about this show because even though it wasn’t a big success I always like to watch game shows. Sign up to our newsletter to get other stories like this delivered straight to your inbox.

Around this time, the phone-in game show craze was at its peak, so ITV filled endless hours with Quizmania, which for me was one of the better interactive shows, at least they made the attempt to be entertaining, and they gave away some decent amounts of money.

For example, there was a lot of original music programming, such as the dance show BPM and of course Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan in various nightclubs on The Hitman And Her. It could be fair to say that the quality of the programme varied from informative to shambolic. It launched in November 1998 on the ITV Digital platform, and closed down in March 2003, 5 months after Carlton went off the air in the London region, being the last ever Carlton-branded television network to do so. Carlton eventually ran into financial difficulties (spurred on by ONdigital, a failed digital television joint venture with Granada, and an expensive TV rights deal with the English Football League that went bad), and on February 2, 2004, it merged with Granada to form ITV plc. Launched in 1993, Carlton was one of the biggest changes to the ITV franchise, that saw Thames lose their licence to broadcast, after bidding a smaller amount than Carlton … In March 1987, Carlton acquired a 20 per cent in Central Television from Ladbrokes for £30million[3] which finally gave Carlton its first stake in a terrestrial broadcasting company[4] Bob Phillis became Carlton's representative on the board of directors, having previously worked for Central before joining Carlton as managing director. 1980s.

The late-90s-present: In 1995 a new look was introduced to ITV Night Time in the Carlton and LWT regions. By registering to HELLO!

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