Compass Television

Compass Television Is a ITV Franchise For the Midlands Which Replaced Central Television In 1993 and lost it on air identity in 2002 in 2000 They were brought by Carlton And the became Carlton for the central region

History
In the 1991 Franchise Round there was 2 bidders for the midlands region The Incumbent Central Televisio and a consortium backed by Pearl And Dean, LWT And Tesco Called Compass Television Central Bid £2000 thinking they were unopposed while Compass Television Bid £5,000,000 The ITC Declared that Compass Television has won the franchise as Compass was the highest bidder and pass both business and Quality Thresholds. So In 1992 Central Broadcast there goodbye show ‘Goodbye Midlands‘ the program ends with central’s 1st ident with The text above the Sphere saying Goodbye From with Central at the bottom then hands over to ITN for Big Ben Chimes all 1980 Franchises were gone Then the Compass Television Begins Broadcasting with their Night Time Service TVNT(Television Night Time)A 5 Minute Programme Showing Compass Upcoming Programmes including there news service MidNews Day And MidNews Night like Westcountry most of their programmes was made for the midlands in 1996 Compass Brought YTTTV in 1997 They Launched Compass Video to distribute Yorkshire,Tyne Tees And Their Programs And they launched Pass.Com a website for Compass then Pearl And Dean And Compass Decided to launch a Film Company Called PDC Films Compass Handled the Production And Pearl And Dean Handled the Distribution,However In 2000 Carlton Brought Compass Yorkshire And Tyne Tees was sold off to Granada and their video division was adsorbed into Carlton’s Video and their website closed down however there was PDC Films Still And Pearl And Dean(or SMG as they brought Pearl And dean earlier)wanted to stil be a majority partner in PDC Films Carlton agreed Granda(Through LWT)Still gets to keep their stake in compass however Tesco sold their stake to Carlton when they brought Compass. Carlton decided to renamed compass to Carlton for the central region(Resurecting the Central name)or just Carlton On-Screen however in 2002 CFTCR was renamed to ITV Central in 2004 Carlton Merged with granada To form itv plc in 2005 PDC Films Closed Down