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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 was originally set up by Michael Green's Carlton Communications to bid for an ITV franchise after Green failed to buy into Thames Television, the London franchise, in 1985. [3] On 16 October 1991, Carlton won the "Channel 3" franchise to broadcast to London during weekdays from January 1993, as a result of winning the silent ...
15 November – The public launch of digital terrestrial TV in the UK takes place. 1999. 8 March – Central News' teatime programme is renamed Central News at Six to coincide with the programme being rescheduled from 6:25pm to 6pm. 6 September – Carlton Television drops the Central Independent Television name and brands the region as Carlton ...
24 October - Carlton Television buys HTV from Granada. [30] 2001. May – Following the signing of a joint venture with supermarket chain Sainsbury's, Carlton Food Network is renamed Taste CFN. [31] July – Granada buys Border Television. 11 July – Carlton and Granada relaunch OnDigital as ITV Digital in an attempt to better compete with Sky ...
9 December – Hellenic TV launches, providing London's Greek community with its own television service. 1991. April – Thames and LWT launch a new overnight strand ITV Night Time. [11] 16 October – Thames loses its ITV licence to Carlton Television due to it not being the highest bidder. [12] LWT retains its licence.
It is the name of the new regional news bulletins produced by London News Network, the new seven days a week news service jointly owned by LWT and new contractor Carlton Television. 1994. 25 February – LWT is bought by Granada Television for £770 million. This resulted in Greg Dyke and Sir Christopher Bland leaving LWT. [17] 1995
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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.