Central Television Enterprises
Background
Central Television Enterprises Limited was founded in 1987 by Central for sales, sponsorship and newsgathering operations, as well as being the company's key international distributor of programming. It would later represent output sales for HTV, Meridian and Carlton.
CTE was included within Carlton Television's purchase of Central in 1994, and renamed the company as CTE Carlton Limited in September 1994, with "CTE" now standing for "Carlton Television Enterprises".
In March 1998, Carlton renamed CTE Carlton as Carlton International Media Limited.
(1989-1998)
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Logo: On a white background, we see a purple-blue gradient lined box with the text "Cte" in it. The box ripples once, turning the text white.
Variants:
- A still version exists.
- An extended variant exists. Here, we see purple-blue lines slide in to form the box. The "Cte" text swings in and lands on the box, making it ripple and turning the text white, forming the logo above.
Technique: Computer-generated effects.
Music/Sounds: A synth note with some twinkles.
Music/Sounds Variants:
- On the extended version, sharp noises are heard when the lines slide in. A cymbal crash when the CTE lands on the box and the same synth note from the normal logo. This was also used for the CTE Video logo.
- On some 1994 episodes of Family Fortunes, the CTE logo plays over the end of the closing theme or none.
Availability: Rare.
- It appeared on some reruns of Central shows and some ITC films.
- Challenge airings of Family Fortunes from 1983-1984 and 1993-1995 keep this logo intact, sometimes appearing after or plastering the Central Productions endcap.
- However, sometimes, it will only appear for a split second before being cut off.
- Some airings may plaster this with the 1999 Carlton International or the 2013 ITV Studios Global Entertainment logos.
- It is unknown if Challenge airings of Bullseye keep this logo intact as most episodes that currently air on the channel don’t contain any distribution logos and if they did, the 1999 Carlton International logo is most likely to appear.
- It was also seen on old CITV airings of Wolves, Witches and Giants, plastering the 1995 and 1997 Central Productions endcaps.
- As with the shows above, prints with either the 1999 Carlton International or the 2004 Granada International logos may plaster this logo, while some episodes retained the 1995 or 1997 Central Productions endcaps.
- This was also sighted on a 1990s printing of An Ideal Husband (1947).
- It also appeared on a True Movies airing of the 1991 TV movie The Perfect Tribute.
- It also appeared on late 1990s prints of Sherlock Holmes episodes from the era, which plastered over the Granada Television endcap logos, as the 2003 digitally remastered prints plaster this with the 2001-2004 Granada G Without Arrow logo while current prints of those episodes plaster it with the 2003-2013 ITV Studios Global Entertainment logo.
- The extended variant is extremely rare, and is only known to appear on North American VHS releases from BFS Video, such as Inspector Morse: The Way Through the Woods.
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