Carlton World was a British

United Kingdom

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 digital

Digital

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 television channel

Television channel

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, launched in November 1998 and closed down in early 2000. Its sister channels were Carlton Kids

Carlton Kids

Carlton Kids was a digital children's television channel, provided by Carlton Television, which started broadcasting in 1998 and closed in early 2000. Its sister channels were Carlton Food Network, Carlton World, Carlton Cinema and Carlton Select...

, Carlton Food Network

Carlton Food Network

Carlton Food Network was a British digital television channel, provided by Carlton Television, showing food and cookery programmes. It launched in September 1996, and closed in November 2001...

, Carlton Select

Carlton Select

Carlton Select was a British digital television channel, owned by Carlton Television. It was launched in February 1997, and closed down in March 2000. Its sister channels were Carlton Cinema, Carlton Food Network, Carlton Kids and Carlton World....

 and Carlton Cinema

Carlton Cinema

Carlton Cinema was a British digital film television channel, provided by Carlton Television. It launched in November 1998 on the ONdigital platform, and closed down in March 2003, being the last ever Carlton-branded television network. Its sister channels are Carlton Select, Carlton World, Carlton...

. It was carried on cable

Cable television

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 and ONdigital channel 34, and timeshared with Carlton Kids and RAW!.

Programs

Carlton World showed the majority of entertainment

Entertainment

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 programmes produced or commissioned by Carlton and its merged companies, including Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television, more commonly known as Central is the Independent Television contractor for the Midlands, created following the restructuring of ATV and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc, under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting...

 and Westcountry Television

Westcountry Television

Westcountry Television, is the ITV franchise holder in the South West of England, replacing its predecessor, TSW , from the 1 January 1993...

, however, it was not unusual for programmes from other ITV

ITV

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 network companies to be featured on the channel. The channel also broadcast factual programming. It was carried on both analogue and digital

Digital

A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...

 cable

Cable

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 prior to ONdigital's launch.

History

Carlton World, along with Carlton Kids, were both closed in 2000 due to poor viewership and financial difficulties. On Carlton's television platform, ONdigital, the capacity was replaced by a timeshare of Discovery Kids

Discovery Kids

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 and Discovery Wings

Discovery Wings

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Carlton Television has since merged with Granada Television

Granada Television

Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....

 and has formed ITV plc

ITV plc

ITV plc is a British media company that operates 12 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom...

. Programming from Carlton World has been absobed into ITV plc's Digital Channels

ITV channels

ITV is the original British advertising television network. Some of the franchise holders, most notably ITV plc and its predecessor companies Granada Television and Carlton Television, set up other television channels, some with the ITV brand, some not.-ITV:The ITV Network was launched in 1955, a...

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External links

• Carlton World at TVARK

These programmes were broadcast on Carlton World:
Front Up
Parental Ambition
Toasted