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This is a timeline of the history of the British broadcaster Central Independent Television (now known as
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). It has provided the
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service for the Midlands since 1982.


1980s

* 1980 ** 28 December – The
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announces the new contractors to commence on 1 January 1982. Midlands licensee ATV is allowed to retain its licence on the condition that 49% of the company is owned locally. Another condition is that the company is renamed to demonstrate that it is effectively a new business. * 1981 ** ''Central Independent Television'' is the name chosen for the new dual-region
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franchise. * 1982 **1 January – At 9:25 am, Central Independent Television goes on air for the first time. * 1983 ** 1 February – ITV's breakfast television service
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launches. Consequently, Central's broadcast day now begins at 9:25 am. ** 7 May – ACC sells its stake in Central and Sears Holdings purchases a 20% stake while
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also increase their stakes to 20% each, and
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takes its ownership to 12.5%, with 27.5% being held by single stakeholders. ** July – Central uses
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for the final time. It does so in order to comply with a condition of the licence renewal which requires the company to stop using any London-centric facilities. ** September *** Central's
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studios begin operating and they are officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 2 February 1984. *** Central finally launches its
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service. An industrial dispute was the reason why the new service had been delayed by more than 18 months. * 1984 ** The
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are sold to the
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. ** Central establishes a subsidiary company
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to produce programming for the UK and the USA. * 1985 ** 3 January – The last day of transmission using the 405-lines system. ** 27 August – A new presentation package is launched. The sphere is replaced by a ‘cake’. ** Mid-November – The newer closedown bumper makes its debut, surrounding with the villages of
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turning their lights off, with the Central Cake logo being animated, the shorter version were also made but it was short-lived. * 1986 ** 17 January – The first edition of Friday night debate programme '' Central Weekend'' is broadcast. The 90-minute programme proves to be popular, quickly establishing a 40% audience share. ** 2 April – The first in-vision teletext service is seen on ITV when
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launches its '' Jobfinder'' service which broadcasts for one hour after the end of the day's programming. Many other regions launch their own ''Jobfinder'' service later in the 1980s. * 1987 ** 6 January *** Central acquires the European division of the American production company
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for £1.5million. Filmfair goes on to produce several of the station's networked children's series before being sold onto the Storm Group (Caspian) in 1991. *** Central acquires a 22% stake in Starstream, which operates
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. *** ''
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'', based on the books by
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debuts, with
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in the title role. ** 16 March – Carlton Communications acquires 20 per cent of Central from Ladbrokes for £30 million. ** 25 April – Central becomes the first station in the UK to keep its transmitters on air all night when it launches ''More Central''. Programmes are shown until around 3am on weekdays and 4am at the weekend, with the rest of the night filled by its '' Jobfinder'' service. ** 7 September – Following the transfer of
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to
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, ITV provides a full morning programme schedule, with advertising, for the first time. The new service includes regular five-minute national and regional news bulletins. * 1988 ** 13 February –
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launches a full 24-hour service. ** 4 April – After nearly 24 years on air, the final edition of ''
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'' is broadcast. Central had taken over production of the programme from ATV. It would be revived in 2001 and would end again in 2003. * 1989 ** 9 January –
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launches a third sub-region – Central South. It covers
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,
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and parts of
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and
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. These areas were previously served by the Central West sub-region. ** 1 September – ITV introduces its first official logo as part of an attempt to unify the network under one image whilst retaining regional identity. Central adopts its version of the ident.


1990s

* 1990 ** 4 March – Central forms a partnership with ''
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'' newspaper to create Central Observer, making environmental themed films for
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and terrestrial channels, with funding from the charity Television Trust for the Environment. * 1991 ** 16 October – The
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announces the results of the franchise round. Central is unopposed for the Midlands licence and retains it with a token bid of only £2,000 per year, plus 11% of their annual advertising revenue. ** November *** Having previously rented its studio complex, Central now owns its studios. *** Central sells its stake in Starstream to United Artists Cable International. * 1992 ** No events. * 1993 ** 19 May – After ten years and ten series, the final edition of '' Blockbusters'' is produced for ITV. However, Central produces one further series for the satellite channel
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. * 1994 ** January – Carlton Communications takes full ownership of Central. * 1995 ** February – Central ends its own night-time programming and carries the London overnight service although opt-outs for ''Jobfinder'' and other regional programming continues. * 1996 ** No events. * 1997 ** June – Central opens the new smaller studios. * 1998 ** 15 November – The public launch of digital terrestrial TV in the UK takes place. * 1999 ** 8 March – '' Central News teatime programme is renamed ''Central News at Six'' to coincide with the programme being rescheduled from 6:25pm to 6pm. ** 6 September – Carlton Television drops the Central Independent Television name and brands the region as Carlton Central. ** 8 November – A new, hearts-based on-air look is introduced.


2000s

* 2000 ** No events. * 2001 ** 7 September – After more than 15 years, the final edition of '' Central Weekend'' is broadcast. * 2002 ** 28 October – Central's on-air regional identity is dropped, apart from when introducing regional programmes. * 2003 ** All remaining overnight regional programming, including '' Jobfinder'', ends. * 2004 ** January – The final two remaining English ITV companies,
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and
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, merge to create
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. *2005 ** 5 February – Following the closure of the Carlton Studios in
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, production of ''Central News East'' moves to the Birmingham studios. * 2006 ** 24 July – '' Central News at Six'' is renamed ''Central Tonight''. ** November – The Carlton branding, seen before some regional programming, is discontinued. ** 4 December – The South Midlands sub-region is disbanded. The parts of
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served by Central South joins the majority of the county already covered by
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and begins receiving ''
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'' and Herefordshire is now covered by the West Midlands edition. In the rest of the area, news operations are merged with Meridian West, to form the non-franchise ''
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'' service, broadcasting '' Thames Valley Today/Tonight'' from the Meridian West studio in
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. The new programme, which also covers
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and parts of
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and
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retained Central's Abingdon newsroom as the main newsgathering base for the new region but the studio was closed. * 2007 ** No events. * 2008 ** December – All non-news local programming ends after
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gives ITV permission to drastically cut back its regional programming. From 2009 the only regional programme is the monthly political discussion show. * 2009 ** February – ITV makes major cutbacks to its regional broadcasts in England. Central's separate sub-regional news programmes are merged into a pan-regional programme although more localised news continues to be broadcast as a brief opt-out during the early evening programme.


2010s

* 2010 ** No events. * 2011 ** 28 September –
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is completed in the
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. * 2012 ** No events. * 2013 ** 14 January – ITV's Midlands news service is relaunched and rebranded as ''ITV News Central''.ITV launches rebrand on air and online
itv.com, 14 January 2012 ** 16 September – Sub-regional news coverage is reintroduced and the weekday daytime, late evening and weekend bulletins as well as 20 minutes of the 6pm programme are once again more localised.


See also

*
History of ITV The history of ITV, the United Kingdom " Independent Television" commercial network, goes back to 1955. Independent Television began as a network of independently-owned regional companies that were both broadcasters and programme makers, beginn ...
*
History of ITV television idents The ITV (TV network), ITV television network in the United Kingdom began as a group of regional stations, each with their own identities. Each station used its own Station identification, idents to create an individual identity. In 1989, a firs ...
*
Timeline of ITV This is a timeline of the history of the British television network ITV (originally known as Independent Television). 1950s * 1954 ** 30 July – The Television Act 1954 paves the way for the launch of commercial television in the UK and the ...
*
Timeline of ATV This is a timeline of the history of the former British television broadcaster ATV. It provided the ITV service for London at weekends and the Midlands on weekdays from 1955 to 1968, and for the Midlands all week from 1968 to 1982. 1950s * 1954 ...
– Central's predecessor


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