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overview
holdings
landmarks
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
antecedents
1917
Technicolor Corporation founded in US
1938 Rank Screen Advertising founded
as subsidiary of Odeon Theatres
1951 Andre Deutsch and Diana Athill establish André Deutsch
publishers
1954 ITC television production company founded by Lew
Grade
1969 Solid State Logic music console business founded,
later acquired by United Engineering Industries (UEI)
1970 Qantel image editing software business founded, later
acquired by UEI
1973 Michael buys Carlton Photography & Design for £0.4m,
establishes Tangent Industries video business
beginnings
1983 Tangent Industries renamed Carlton Communications,
absorbs Carlton Fox and Carlton Studios and lists on London
Stock Exchange
1983 Ronald Perelman's MacAndrews
& Forbes buys Technicolor for US$125m
1985 Independent Broadcasting Authority vetoes purchase
of Thames Television from Thorn-EMI
and Rediffusion for £82m
1987 buys 20% of Central Television for £29.5m following
Bell's takeover of ACC
1988 buys Technicolor from Perelman
1988 buys Action Time film/video production company
1989 buys UEI (inc Quantel and Solid State Logic) for
£507m
1989 sells Link Scientific Group for £47.5m
1990 sells Cosworth and other parts of UEI to Vickers
for £163.5m
1990 awarded UK Channel 3 tv licence
1992 buys Pickwick music group for £69m
1992 Carlton Books founded
broadcasting
1993 Carlton Television starts broadcasting
1993 buys Central Television for £723m
1993 buys 18% of ITN (other consortium members include
LWT and Reuters)
1993 Carlton and partner Paramount
sell Zenith Entertainment
1994 buys remaining 80% of Central Television, resells
most of Central's 18% stake in ITN
1994 sells 85% of Action Time
1995 sells Abekas Video Systems for US$52m
1996 buys SelecTV cable channel (subsequently renamed
Carlton Select) for £5.6m
1996 buys Cinema Media (former Rank
Screen Advertising) for £58.8m, subsequently renamed Carlton
Screen Advertising
1996 launches Carlton Food Network
1996 buys Westcountry Television for £85m
1996 buys rest of Action Time for £7.75m
1996 buys Cinema Media (formerly Rank Screen Advertising)
for £58.5m
1996 buys 10% stake in Getty Communications
image library for £17m
1997 UK Digital Terrestrial Television licences awarded
to British Digital Broadcasting (renamed ONdigital) -
50% held by Carlton, 50% by Carlton.
1997 buys Rank Film Distributors and film library for
£65m
1997 buys Rohauer Film Collection for £1m
1997 buys Metrocolor London from Time
Warner for £3.8m
1997 merges international film sales operation with Village
Intermedia Pictures
1997 buys Spanish videocassette producer Televicine
1998 buys remaining 50% of Technicolor Euphon in Italy
1998 opens videocassette plant in Denmark
1998 buys 50% of Grupo Video Visa in Mexico
1998 buys Nimbus CD group for £160m
1998 launches of Carlton Online (now Carlton Interactive)
Ondigital
1998 Ondigital launched
1999 buys ITC film and television library for £93m
1999 buys 49% stake in Real Image Digital film processing
for £14m
1999 buys Planet 24 production company from Bob Geldof
and Waheed Ali for paid £15m
1999 sells Pickwick and other budget music operations
1999 takes 7.5% stake in Quiero Digital television in
Spain
1999 buys VTR Video in Canada
1999 buys remaining 50% of Mexico videocassette plant
1999 increases stake in Hamdon to 100%, renamed Carlton
America.
1999 takes 20% stake in PeopleBank online job agency
1999 takes 25% stake in Ask Jeeves UK
1999 planned merger with United
News & Media collapses
1999 forms joint venture with TF1 form @lliance, a joint
venture to operate online and internet businesses in Europe
1999 sells 70% of Solid State Logic for £45.3m
1999 increases stake in GMTV to 25%
2000 sells Quantel for £108m
2000 forms partnerships with WHSmith, Sainsbury's (Taste
Network) and First Call
2000 forms joint venture with WWW.COM
2000 buys HTV from Granada for
£360m
2000 sells Technicolour to Thomson for £1.43bn
2000 buys Andre Deutsch
2000 buys Consolidated Film Industries, US processor of
large film formats, for £31m
2001 abandons Taste Network
merger with Granada
2001 ON Digital renamed ITV Digital
2002 ITV Digital goes into receivership
2002 Carlton buys cinema advertising interests of UGC
(France) and RTBF (Belgian broadcaster) for £62m
2003 UK government approves merger of Carlton and Granada
as ITV plc
2004 ITV sells Carlton Books (through MBO) and other non-core
operations
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