An explanation of who Carlton Communication is and what they do. Carlton Communication PLC is a focused media company with businesses in free television, program making, pay television and the Internet.
Principal markets are the United Kingdom, North America and Europe.
Carlton now makes programs for all major terrestrial networks, as well as cable, satellite and Carlton's own subscription channels, Carlton Cinema and Carlton Food Network. Carlton also invested in television program and film libraries. By the end of 1999, with the acquisitions of the Rank and the Rohauer film collections in 1997 and the ITC library in 1999, Carlton currently has 2,000 films and 18,000 hours of television programs in its library. Technicolor Technicolor built up a complex distribution and fulfillment network and has expanded into new disc-based, or optical, media formats. DVDs were launched in the United States in 1997 and in Europe in 1998.