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ITV Studios

Type	Public
Founded	1954 (as Granada Productions)
Headquarters	London, England, UK
Industry	Media
Products	Television
Owner(s)	Granada Limited (1954-2004) ITV plc (2004-)
Website	itv.com

ITV Studios was founded in 1954 as Granada Productions. Prior to March 2009, the company was known as ITV Productions.

The division is also responsible for ITV's production facilities The London Studios, 3sixtymedia at Granada Studios, The Leeds Studios, location hire company ProVision and Leeds-based post production companies Film Lab North and The Finishing School. Granada International and Granada Ventures are part of ITV Global Entertainment. Both arms have been re-united and recently merged as part of the new Global Content division of ITV, led by Lee Bartlett (a former Fox executive and previously chief operating officer of the division under Dawn Airey).

Programmes on non-ITV channels (except S4C, which uses the name ITV Cymru) retained the Granada brand (examples are Channel 4's Countdown and The Royle Family for the BBC) until 2009. Many of the Programmes shown on ITV show the endboard featuring the ITV Studios logo after the credits as of 2009.

Divisions of ITV Studios

ITV Studios comprises the following network production divisions from its predecessor companies:

• Anglia Television
• Border Television
• Carlton Television
• Central Independent Television
• Channel Television
• Grampian Television
• Granada Television
• HTV Wales and West
• London Weekend Television
• Meridian Broadcasting
• Red Rooster Films And Television Entertainment
• Scottish Television
• Southern Television
• Thames Television
• TVS Television South
• Tyne Tees Television
• Ulster Television
• Westward Television
• Yorkshire Television

See also

• Granada Productions
• Granada Television
• ITV plc

External links

ITV Studios Global Entertainment