Currently based just
outside Edinburgh, The Caledonian Television Company™ is a full
service business video production company founded in 1986 at
the Red Road in Glasgow - on the very grounds where the old Caledonian
Railway Company once ruled the rails. We make video for
business!
We've been applying the skills and techniques of broadcast production to business video for over thirty-eight years now. For all that time, we've been making corporate video an affordable option for ordinary 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.
We work to UK broadcast
standards (both technical and operational) in order to protect your
business interests. 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. 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.
Built on traditional working
class 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.
From early 2025 our
founder and owner, Matt Quinn, will be taking personal charge of
all programmes as we move back to being a one-to-one service.
Whilst this ultimately means that we will be lowering our charges and
offering a more personal service - we will be limiting availability
and becoming more selective as to the work we take on. This makes it
more important than ever that you contact us early in the planning
stages of your project. - An informal chat costs and commits you
to nothing; and we simply don't do the hard sell!
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.
First established in October 1986 - The
Caledonian Television Company™ is still personally
owned and run by its founder, Matt Quinn; an ITV-trained
cameraman - and former College Lecturer in Television
Production - with well over forty 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.
Your professional video partners...
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.
