Carlton Kids was a digital children's television channel, provided by Carlton Television, which started broadcasting in 1998 and closed in early 2000. Its sister channels were Carlton Food Network, Carlton World, Carlton Cinema and Carlton Select. It broadcast exclusively on ONdigital, where it timeshared on channel 34 with Carlton World. After the closure of the channel, Carlton later merged with Granada in 2004 to form ITV plc, which went on to launch another children's channel, the CITV Channel, in 2006.