Карлтон Фуд Нетворк: Британдық тағамдар арнасының тарихы

British television channel
the defunct

Carlton Food Network (later known as Taste CFN from May 2001) was a British pay television digital terrestrial channel, owned by Carlton Television. It launched at midday on 2 September 1996 and closed on 1 December 2001. It was part of a group of non terrestrial channels operated by Carlton, which also included Carlton Select – with whom Carlton Food Network time shared space with – Carlton World, Carlton Kids, and Carlton Cinema. The channel was also available via the PanAmSat's PAS 4 satellite in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on the South African DStv service.

Carlton Food Network launched on Monday, 2 September 1996 on cable. It originally broadcast on weekday afternoons, from 12 noon until 5pm, but later it expanded its broadcasting hours to become a seven day a week, all day service, broadcasting daily from 9am until 5pm. Carlton Food Network shared space with evenings only service SelecTV, which was subsequently bought by Carlton and renamed Carlton Select. It began broadcasting on the ONdigital (later ITV Digital) platform at its launch in November 1998, which was part owned by Carlton along with another ITV company Granada, who also operated its own group of Granada branded channels under a partnership with Sky known as Granada Sky Broadcasting. In early 2000, Carlton Select was closed down and its hours on ONdigital were given over to Carlton Food Network resulting in CFN becoming a full time channel. However the channel remained a daytime only service on cable with Carlton Cinema airing during the evenings in place of Carlton Select.

Less than a month before the closure of the channel, a new food and cookery channel from the UKTV network began broadcasting, UK Food, a spin off channel from UK Style. Later known as the Good Food Channel before closedown, the channel has been known to broadcast former CFN programming, including original programming that was made for CFN such as Use Your Loaf, co hosted by James Martin and Paul Hollywood. Good Food closed on 11 September 2019 due to Discovery taking control of the channel and deciding to merge it with the Food Network.

The channel broadcast food and cookery programmes and showcased the best of Carlton and other ITV cookery programmes. It also broadcast a weekday food magazine show called Food Network Daily, which was shown several times each day.