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holdings

landmarks

section heading icon     holdings

This listing is indicative only, as of March 2002 (and thus predates the merger with Carlton to form ITV plc)

subsection heading icon     terrestrial free-to-air broadcasting  

Seven ITV licences in the UK covering 15 million homes -

Granada TV
LWT
Yorkshire TV
Tyne Tees TV
Meridian Broadcasting
Anglia TV
Border Television

subsection heading icon     digital broadcasting and pay television  

50% of ITV Digital, UK digital terrestrial pay television operator

Granada Pay TV (3 channels - Granada Plus, Granada Breeze and Granada Men & Motors)

MUTV (33% stake in sports channel partnership with BSkyB and Manchester United Football Club)

Shop! - 33% stake in home shopping channel joint venture with Littlewoods

UKTV - international Pay TV channel (New Zealand, India, Pakistan and Middle East)

thecomedychannel - 20% of joint venture with Murdoch and Packer's Foxtel

Granada Sky Broadcasting (50.5%)

subsection heading icon    retail  

Box Clever - 50% of UK electrical retail chain and television rental business with over 500 high street outlets (rest held by Nomura)

subsection heading icon     sports  

Liverpool FC (9.9%)

Arsenal FC (5%)

subsection heading icon    media investments  

Granada's stakes in other groups include -

ITN (20%)
GMTV (25%)
London News Network (50%)
Scottish Media Group (18.1%)
Seven Network (10.4%) - Australian television
Village Roadshow (18%) - Australia-based cinema, film production and broadcasting group
TV3 (45%) - commercial television in Ireland, controlled by CanWest
Powerchannel Europe (23.5%)

subsection heading icon     online/multimedia 

Granda Broadband - UK ISP and content provider

Ask Jeeves UK (25%; Carlton has 25% stake)

Boots/Granada joint venture Digital Wellbeing (40%)

liverpoolfc.tv - 50% with Liverpool Football Club

Arsenal FC broadband - 50% with Arsenal Football Club

subsection heading icon     publishing 

Letts Educational - cribs and other school publishing

Black Cat - education software publisher

NFER-NELSON - UK provider of paper-based school test products

subsection heading icon     film/tv production 

Granda Creative film and television production and distribution activity includes -

Granada Television Productions
London Weekend Television Productions
Yorkshire Tyne Tees Productions
United Production - production units of Anglia TV, Meridian Broadcasting and HTV
Granada Film (inc London Studios and Milbank Studios)
Granada Sport
Granada International - program distribution
Granada Entertainment USA - LA production unit
Red Heart - Australian production unit (50% joint venture with Seven Network, unwound 2001)
Granada Produktion Fur Film & Fernsehen - Berlin
Granada Far East - joint venture with BYAV of Hong Kong



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