Content

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Carlton invested over £200m a year in making television programmes including Peak Practice, The Vice and the award winning “… in Colour” factual series.

They were are one of Europe’s largest rights distributors with a library of 18,000 hours of television programmes, from Thunderbirds to the Inspector Morse films, and 2,000 movies including classic titles such as Sophie’s Choice, Brief Encounter, Richard III, The African Queen, The Eagle Has Landed, Birth Of A Nation and the Carry On … films. They published these and other titles through their book and video labels.


In the US, Carlton America developed and co-produced made-for-television movies, as well as drama and other forms of television programming.

Channels

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Carlton was a leading free-to-air commercial broadcaster in the UK, accounting for 40% of ITV. They used to broadcast to 26m people (around 50% of the UK population) and booked around £800m of advertising revenue a year.


Carlton use to lead the fast growing cinema advertising market in the UK, Ireland, Europe and North America.

Carlton was a leading producer of interactive content for television programmes and commercials.

About Carlton

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This is a fansite for Carlton Communications Plc, a former leading UK media company that comprised of businesses in free-to-air television broadcasting and advertising sales, content production and distribution and cinema advertising.

Overview

For the year ended 30th September 2001, Carlton reported headline pre-tax profits of £118m, before goodwill amortisation, on sales of £1,026m.

The principal market was in the UK.


There were 3,300 employees.

Carlton was listed on the London Stock Exchange (CCM) and Nasdaq (CCTVY).

Carlton’s businesses were divided into two segments – Channels and Content.

On 2 February 2004, the company was  taken over by Granada plc to form ITV plc with Carlton gaining 32% of the new company.