EuroMedia (company)

EuroMedia is a Euro Republican based mass media holding conglomerate owned by TVVC and Bertelsmann.

History
In 1987, EuroMedia was founded to be the parent company of a new third channel which eventually launched as TV3. It’s shareholders were originally Modern Times Group (who were founded a few months prior), Teleclub & the American News Corporation. The involvement of the latter gave them the entirety of the 20th Century Fox film & TV library to air on their channels. The latter divested themselves to just 10% in 1991 and left completely in 1994, but continued to work closely with EuroMedia.

Within it's first year, Modern Times Group acquired Thames Television, helping them to win the ITV franchise once again in 1991, fighting off Carlton Television, and the Australian production house Grundy Television, makers of Neighbours.

In 1990, Teleclub's share of EuroMedia was sold to Kuboia-based TVVC.

In 1993, EuroMedia acquired a controlling stake in British Satellite Broadcasting, slowly buying into it's shareholders until November 1995 saw them take over the full company.

Central Independent Television was bought for an estimated £2 million by MTG in early 1994, bringing it under the same corporate ownership as Thames.

1999 saw Thames and Central plan to acquire United News and Media, who owned Meridian, Anglia and HTV. After the merger was approved in early 2000, the latter three franchises became CLT-UFA properties by the end of 2000.

In 2007, after nearly being acquired by ProSieben Sat.1 Media, EuroMedia acquired the assets of the European SBS Broadcasting Group.

A £20 million takeover bid for Granada plc was also approved in January 2007 and was completed in October.

On 26th July, 2010, EuroMedia announced it would add British newspaper The Independent (and it’s upcoming spinoff, The I) to it's portfolio.

In 2019, EuroMedia announced a reshuffling of it's channel portfolio - closing V5, SIX and TV10 to be replaced with new channels aimed at women, preschoolers, a channel for world cinema and a channel for arts and cultural programmes. After the plans were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these channels all closed down during late 2021, 2022 and 2023, and were replaced. V5 became the female focused Five, SIX was rebranded as the cultural channel Canvas, timesharing with preschool focused 3C Playbox. The world cinema channel was dropped, leaving TV10 without a replacement.

In July 2021, it was announced that EuroMedia was eyeing a takeover of the UK's Channel 4 Television Corporation, however, they later backtracked and announced they would instead back the channel under public ownership.

Current

 * Picturebox
 * Picturebox Cinema
 * Picturebox Television
 * TV3 Networks
 * TV3
 * TV4
 * FIVE
 * TV8
 * Canvas
 * 3C
 * 3C Playbox
 * Granada plc
 * ITV1
 * ITV2
 * Granada Digital Broadcasting
 * ITV3
 * ITV4
 * ITV5
 * CITV
 * Mini CITV
 * ITV Drama
 * ITV Comedy
 * ITV News Channel
 * ITV Sport Channel
 * Granada Studios
 * 12 Yard Productions
 * CITV Studios
 * back catalogue of
 * So Television
 * World Productions
 * ITN (40%)
 * ITVX
 * Spark
 * ET1
 * ET1 Satellite
 * ET1 Cable
 * ET1 Telecom
 * ET1 Go
 * ET1 Play
 * Spark Networks
 * Spark Entertainment Networks
 * Spark
 * Spark 2
 * Entertainment and Culture Networks
 * BBC UKTV
 * Cartoon Network
 * Disney Channel
 * TNT
 * TCM!
 * WB Kids
 * Lifestyle Network
 * Spark Documentaries
 * Spark Nature
 * Spark History
 * DMAX
 * Discovery Channel
 * LifeStyle Channel
 * LifeStyle Food
 * LifeStyle Home
 * Premiere Channels
 * Premiere Movie Collection
 * Premiere 1
 * Premiere 2
 * Premiere 3
 * Premiere 4
 * Premiere 5
 * Premiere 6
 * EuroMedia Publishing
 * The Euro Reader
 * The Euro Independent
 * TV Weekly
 * The Independent
 * The i Paper
 * Finance Euro Republics
 * Liquid Magazine
 * Glory
 * EuroMedia Radio
 * Euro Republics operations
 * Play
 * Virgin Radio
 * UK operations
 * Galaxy
 * Galaxy Dance
 * Galaxy Reloaded
 * Radio X
 * X Metal
 * Life
 * Core
 * Chill
 * LBC
 * LBC News
 * Eirgroup
 * TV3 Ireland
 * 3e
 * Be3
 * 3Sport
 * IP (10%)
 * 3Sport
 * IP (10%)