Its main shareholders were Carlton Communications and Granada plc.

ITV is to be distinguished from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004 and which holds the Channel 3 broadcasting licences in England, Wales, southern Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

These complaints were, ironically, echoed by Michael Green, chairman of Carlton Communications, the company that made the film.

After Keith Duckworth decided he didn't want to be involved with the day-to-day business of running a growing company, he sold out to United Engineering Industries ( UEI ) in 1980, retaining his life presidency and day-to-day technical involvement with Cosworth, and becoming a UEI board director ; UEI was a group of small to medium-sized technology companies which was taken over by Carlton Communications in 1988-Carlton was primarily interested in some of the audio-visual companies in the UEI portfolio and Cosworth was a poor fit with these ; a new buyer for the company in the engineering / automotive sector was sought and the traditional engineering company Vickers plc bought Cosworth in 1990.

Previously it was held by Granada Television which was founded by Sidney Bernstein and based at Granada Studios since its inception, and which was the only surviving company out of the original four Independent Television Authority franchisees from 1954 before it merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004.

The Granada Group merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004 after a duopoly had developed over the previous decade.

However, the intense race to own more of the ITV Network began in 1994 when Carlton Communications, the owner of London weekday broadcaster Carlton Television, took control of Central Independent Television in the Midlands.

In 2004, Granada plc officially merged with Carlton Communications, creating ITV plc, although it was a takeover by Granada in effect.

* Carlton Communications

In November 1996, Westcountry was purchased by Carlton Communications ( now ITV plc ), who by that time owned the London weekday ( Carlton Television ) and Midlands ( Central ) franchises.

Carlton Communications had owned a stake in Central since the early eighties ( before Carlton Television became an ITV Franchisee in its own right ).

This was replaced, following the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications to form ITV plc, with an ITV regional logo featuring the word Central below the ITV logo.

The company also produced the detective drama Inspector Morse in association with Zenith Productions, a production company originally set up to be an in-house subsidiary of Central specialising in high-cost filmed drama, but which in 1987 was sold to Carlton Communications, the company that eventually was to purchase Central itself.

Carlton Television was originally a company set up by Michael Green's Carlton Communications to bid for an ITV franchise.

On 2 February 2004, Carlton Communications plc merged with Granada plc, creating ITV plc, which now owns all of the ITV franchises in England and Wales under the ITV1 brand ( Wales still uses its own on-screen identity as ITV1 Wales, but now also uses English ITV1 continuity ).

In 1985, Carlton Communications launched a take-over bid for Thames after Thorn EMI and BET decided to sell.

The successful company was Carlton Television, a subsidiary of Carlton Communications and headed by Michael Green.

In addition to Thames ' departure from the network as franchise owners, it could also be argued that an equally significant part of the changeover was the fact that its replacement, Carlton Communications, broke away from the traditions of the 1968 and 1982 franchise rounds, in not acquiring and taking-over the bulk of its predecessors ' studios, facilities, work-force and infrastructure.

* Carlton Communications, a former media company in the United Kingdom

On February 11, 2011 it was further reported that she had been made bankrupt over her stay at the five-star Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in London's upmarket Knightsbridge in 2008.

However, it took him a month to surpass Carlton, as he had low run support in a string of five starts that produced one loss and four no-decisions.

Although the 49ers had 3 rookies starting as defensive backs, they all were major defensive threats: Carlton Williamson recorded 4 interceptions, Eric Wright had 3, and Ronnie Lott recorded 7 interceptions and tied an NFL record by returning 3 of them for touchdowns.

Carlton had previously been on tour with Nicks in 2005 and 2006.

Finally, Carlton and Granada had chosen not to employ ONdigital management and staff directly, so many people were on short-term contracts and key people left with no notice.

The Football League sued ITV Digital's parent companies, Carlton and Granada, claiming that the firms had breached their contract in failing to deliver the guaranteed income.

Carlton and Granada stepped in and paid £ 2. 8m to have the boxes stay with their customers, as at the time the ITV companies received a discount on their licence payments based on the number of digital homes they had converted.

By 2004, ITV was owned by five companies of which two, Carlton and Granada had become major players by owning between the two all the franchises in England, Wales, the Scottish borders and the Isle of Man.

Each ITV region originally had its own studios, however the rise of publisher-broadcasters like Carlton Television | Carlton and the takeover of regions caused several studios to be closed.

Fort Carlton Provincial Historic site has been rebuilt as it had been ravaged by three separate fires.

Carlton has had a long and successful history, and is one of the most successful clubs in the VFL / AFL.

Nicholls, a ruckman and forward, had played at Carlton since 1957, and he and Graham Farmer ( who played with and in the WAFL during the same era ) are regarded as the greatest ruckmen in the league's history.

Wayne Johnston was a prominent ruckman / forward, and Carlton had great success recruiting high profile Western Australian footballers to the club, including Mike Fitzpatrick, Ken Hunter and Peter Bosustow.

Carlton had also recruited Stephen Silvagni ( son of Sergio ) in 1985, who is now recognised as one of the greatest fullbacks of all-time, and secured the league's star player Greg Williams in a trade in 1992.

Carlton reached two other Grand Finals during the 1990s, losing to Essendon in 1993 and to the Kangaroos in 1999 ; in 1999, Carlton had come from sixth on the home-and-away ladder to qualify for the Grand Final, famously beating its rival Essendon ( the minor premiers ) by one point in the preliminary final.

Then, at the end of 2002, it was revealed that Carlton had been systematically cheating the league salary cap during the early 2000s.

Then on March 1, 1856, that St. Louis County became Lake County, and Newton County was renamed St. Louis County and had that eastern area added to it ; it was also expanded westward by incorporating parts of Itasca County, which then also included most of Carlton County.

' Mallee ' Johnson had moved to Carlton, but youngster Charlie Ricketts dominated the season and won plaudits among the pressmen, who voted him the best player in the VFA.

In 1969, it became two in three years as Richmond, who had finished fourth on the ladder, beat the much fancied Carlton in the Grand Final by 25 points.

In 1786, under a financial cloud that had been examined in Parliament for the extravagances incurred in building Carlton House, London, he rented a modest erstwhile farmhouse facing the Steine, a grassy area of Brighton used as a promenade by visitors.

The collaboration had given birth to reggae music and later, bassist Aston " Family Man " Barrett and his brother, drummer Carlton Barrett would join the group in 1970.

The show contains dark humour, with many of the scenes inspired by horror films ( the policeman who visits Tubbs and Edward in the first series is a reference to The Wicker Man ), documentaries ( Dr. Carlton came from a programme called Change of Sex which featured a " monstrously unsympathetic " doctor ) and personal experience-Legz Akimbo came from the writers ' experiences in amateur theatre ; Pauline Campbell-Jones came from Reece Shearsmith's own Restart officer and Papa Lazarou came from a former landlord Pemberton and Shearsmith had.