Category:Thames Productions
(Here's Thames's final ident, introduced in 1990 and used until New Year's Eve 1992. Thames continued to use the triangle logo for its first few years as an independent production company) |
(There were, in fact, only months between Thames leaving the ITV network and its acquisition by Pearson - which also owned the Financial Times and half of The Economist, and still owns Longman Books) |
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The product of a merger between [[:Category:Rediffusion Productions|Associated-Rediffusion]] and [[:Category:ABC Productions|ABC]], Thames took over from the former as the ITV station for London on Mondays to Fridays on 30 July 1968. After losing its franchise to [[:Category:Carlton Productions|Carlton]] in the 1991 ITV franchise auction, it ceased broadcasting on 31 December 1992 and became an independent production company. | The product of a merger between [[:Category:Rediffusion Productions|Associated-Rediffusion]] and [[:Category:ABC Productions|ABC]], Thames took over from the former as the ITV station for London on Mondays to Fridays on 30 July 1968. After losing its franchise to [[:Category:Carlton Productions|Carlton]] in the 1991 ITV franchise auction, it ceased broadcasting on 31 December 1992 and became an independent production company. | ||
| - | Thames was | + | Thames was acquired by the Pearson conglomerate in mid-1993, and lost its identity following a merger into Talkback in 2003. Shows made by this TalkbackThames company are listed in [[:Category:Talkback Productions|Talkback]]. The "Thames" credit was revived in 2012 for Fremantle's non-comedy entertainment programmes. |
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Revision as of 22:25, 25 July 2022
Definition:
Programmes made by Thames Television.
The product of a merger between Associated-Rediffusion and ABC, Thames took over from the former as the ITV station for London on Mondays to Fridays on 30 July 1968. After losing its franchise to Carlton in the 1991 ITV franchise auction, it ceased broadcasting on 31 December 1992 and became an independent production company.
Thames was acquired by the Pearson conglomerate in mid-1993, and lost its identity following a merger into Talkback in 2003. Shows made by this TalkbackThames company are listed in Talkback. The "Thames" credit was revived in 2012 for Fremantle's non-comedy entertainment programmes.
Pages in category "Thames Productions"
The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
