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The Caledonian Television Company

We make video for business - at a reasonable price. We work to UK broadcast standards (both technical and operational) in order to protect your business interests. - And we address the common problems of poor programme quality, inadequate project management, legal, copyright and technical risk; all typically associated with using unqualified, untrained 'semi pros' and other non-specialists. We also provide services for news and documentary production including crew, programme research, project management and technical consultancy.

Currently based just outside Edinburgh, The Caledonian Television Company™ is a full service video production company originally founded in 1986 at the Red Road in Glasgow - on the very grounds where the old Caledonian Railway Company once ruled the rails. Built on traditional values and heritage; we're proud to be a small, unpretentious, family business. 

That's why our service is specifically geared to the needs of the 99%+ of all Scottish businesses that are Sole Traders, Micro-businesses or SMEs - real television programmes for real-world businesses.  We also provide services for select news and documentary makers; general production management and assistance, programme research, scripting, compliance auditing, video editing, crew and technical consultancy.

Affordable? We can produce a short presentation video - complete with stock music and on-screen branding derived from your existing materials - from as little as £500, with no hidden extras. 

PROFESSIONAL CREWS. We only use crew who have successfully studied TV or Film production at a legitimate UK Academic Institution and/or trained with a major UK broadcaster such as the BBC or one of the ITV companies.

The Caledonian Television Company™ is still owned and run by its founder, Matt Quinn; an ITV-trained cameraman - and former College Lecturer in Television Production - with over forty-five years of genuine broadcast experience..

PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT. We shoot on real broadcast TV cameras - NOT DSLRs! We edit to meet EBU broadcast standards for topical content on full edit suites. And naturally, we use traditional broadcast lighting and sound.







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We are legitimate masters of our trade - broadcast trained and properly qualified; dedicated video production specialists working collaboratively with the Creative, Marketing, Design, PR and Training industries and directly with business owners  and their in-house teams, to provide a complete, fully project-managed, script to screen video production service. 

We can take you from initial idea to a programme which is legally safe and technically fit to be shown anywhere from YouTube, broadcast on TV or shown in a commercial cinema. If a 'one stop' solution is what you need - we can provide that. If a 'crew only' service is what you need - we're happy to provide that too. - What we never do is pretend to be what we're not; we strongly reject the 'Jack of All Trades' mentality. 

All of our work is covered as standard by strict, legally binding non-disclosure policies that provide you with full security over your project.  From the initial consultation on, you can be sure that all discussions are in strict confidence and that your sensitive commercial information is safe with us.  - We also work proactively to protect your intellectual property and that of others; for example ensuring that issues such as copyright and advertising codes are properly addressed.

We don't believe in giving anyone the hard sell.  However, we do encourage people to contact us as early as possible in the planning stages of their project. This allows us to advise and plan well in advance and  identify cost savings; avoiding the situation where projects and facilities booked at the eleventh hour create unnecessary cost-drivers and/or project risk.  - An informal chat or email exchange with us costs and commits you to nothing.

We invite you to get in touch as early as possible in planning your project with the assurance that we will never place you under any obligation or sales pressure, simply for seeking help and information.  - We do NOT keep any kind of sales or mailing list and consider all enquiries to be confidential.

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