who owns central

The ITC was the Independent Television Commission, a governmental body set up under Margaret Thatcher's government to replace the Independent Broadcasting Authority. The ITC conducted the 1993 franchise round and renewed all of the ITV franchise holder's contracts in 1999 for a further ten years (2013). The ITC ceased to exist in December 2003 and is now part of Ofcom.
The ITC was a regulator therefore could not own stakes in companies.


Although it was a "merger", officially Granada took over Carlton. Granada's shares make up more than 50% of the company, whereas Carlton's are less than 50% as Granada was the bigger company.



ITV still holds them and use them for teh liences for channel3[/quote]

On 29 December...

Border Television Ltd officially became ITV Border Ltd
Central Independent Television Ltd became ITV Central Ltd
HTV Group Ltd became ITV Wales and West Ltd
Meridian Broadcasting Ltd became ITV Meridian Ltd.

No not that ITC it was Lew Grade's company before the governing board was formed.

The ITC is famous for being the ITV franchise that never was & instead being a independent producer of such hit 60's & 70's ITV series including The Saint & Man In A Suitcase

That's correct, it's part of the media and screen archive of the East Midlands. They store hundreds of old films of the East Midlands there, which occasionally feature on CNE (probably to skimp on doing a couple of extra reports to fill the programme )

I thought that ITVplc was made up of 70% Granada Media Group, and only 30% Carlton Communications?

both... in the early days of EMTC there was Pres in Nottingham... latterly just an MCR existed, but still a mixture of live and off-tape transmissions were co-ordinated through there

Towards the end LNN networked all Nottingham made programmes, Birmingham would do all local programmes, Nottingham would feed LNN all "live" and quick turn around network shows (eg Design Wars)

does ITV still own those Productions companies

"Action time"
or
Planet 24

and Carlton America operations?

and do there own any more?

I think the "Carlton America" would come under the Granada Int'l banner now, I believe it's the same for Carlton's Action time (now Granada)

Does Action Time still exist or was that company closed by Carlton??? AT used to have some great gameshows on the box, but not seen any for quite a few years now!

A quick search reveals it's defunct.

does ITV own any other production companies, and there all come under the name: ITV production?

I know RTL: owns a bit of talkback thames..

I think it make since keeping the name Carlton for it On screen adverts, I don;t think people would like ITV screen adverts, although it would make more sence as ITV is the biggest TV advertise in UK and cinema

They own all of Talkback Thames