Looking though "the derby evening telegraph" today i noticed it still has ITV as carlton! Seeing as I have never ever heard anyone refer to central as carlton (even during '99-02 era) why is carlton still named in the paper? Does “central independent television still officially run the midlands channel 3 license?
Does “central independent television still officially run the midlands channel 3 license?
In a word...
...YES
Central Indepedant Television is a Limited Company wholly owned by ITV plc
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does that mean
that ITV PLC doesn't bid for the ITV contracks but instead, it get it limted companys it owns, like Central, Anglian, yorkshire to bid form them under there name?
Technically ITV cannot directly own the Channel 3 licences. Under the Channel 3 licencing rules, the so called independent companies own the licences. The regional companies, 11 of the 15 owned by ITV are all seperate companies in actual fact, just all owned by ITV plc (subsidiaries of ITV plc)
As for the name of the Central licence...it is owned by Central Independent Television Ltd (its official name) but operated as ITV Central. It is the innaccuracies of others that still use the Carlton name. Carlton Television Ltd owns the London Weekday licence (still technically a licence) now part of ITV London.
Also when Carlton owned Central, the licence was still owned by Central Independent Television as a subsidiary of Carlton plc. This is why the Central News name couldn't be dropped.
that ITV PLC doesn't bid for the ITV contracks but instead, it get it limted companys it owns, like Central, Anglian, yorkshire to bid form them under there name?
No, because they haven't been bid for since 1991.
The individual companies (in England and Wales that is) that won the licenses in 1991 were bought up (by Carlton, Granada and United Media) and then merged together into one company, but the individual subsiduries - Westcountry television ltd, Central Independant Television televison Ltd etc - still exsist but as wholey owned subsiduraries of ITV PLC.
The current licenses (which can be seen here: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/ifi/tvlicensing/c3/ alongside the original 1991 licenses and their amendments) were issued in 2004. There's no reason why they can't be all awarded directly to ITV PLC next time they are renewed, with the subsiduaries being left dormant
Also when Carlton owned Central, the licence was still owned by Central Independent Television as a subsidiary of Carlton plc. This is why the Central News name couldn't be dropped.
Is that correct? I always assumed it was purely for branding reasons that ITV kept the names "Central News" et al.
Also when Carlton owned Central, the licence was still owned by Central Independent Television as a subsidiary of Carlton plc. This is why the Central News name couldn't be dropped.
Is that correct? I always assumed it was purely for branding reasons that ITV kept the names "Central News" et al.
If so, you learn something new every day!
No, that's nonsense. After all, 'HTV News' is no longer, and equally there's nothing stopping ITV rebranding Central News as 'ITV Midlands News' or even 'Bob's Big Birmingham' if they wanted.
They've kept Central News because it's a well recognised name with which viewers identify.
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or maybe central news was keep as it was news form central england?
