ETV

ETV (Euro Television) is a Euro Republican television company owned by the EBU, and is publicly funded and paid through advertising.

History
ETV was founded in 1956 with one channel, Euro Republican Television (now known as ETV One).

Then in 1983, after 27 years, ETV1 would finally get a sister channel, with ETV2. ETV2 aired a schedule aiming for less mainstream viewers, airing a mix of comedy, movies, sporting events and children’s programmes. Two other markets ETV were looking to tap into with this channel were students and British expats, many of ETV2’s weekday morning and early afternoon schedule as a result was populated with schools and collage programmes, and evenings had entertainment shows from both the Euro Republics and the UK, at launch, ETV2’s lineup for UK audiences included Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm, Top Of The Pops, Blue Peter and Nationwide. The latter ended the same year, and ETV decided to move their long running news magazine show At Seven to ETV2, but moved back to ETV1 in 1995.

In 2020, a change happened to ETV which saw various channels refocused and rebranded. ETV 3 would become a channel aiming at current affairs, the arts, documentaries, living, talk shows and news. ETV4 took the previous role of ETV5 as a variety channel, ETV Kids would be split between ETV2 and ETV4, ETV2 would air the leftover content from the then-youthy ETV3 and then-serious ETV4. ETV5 was to become ETV1+1. ETV’s streaming service would be rebranded as Europlay and merge with EuroMedia’s streaming service ERZoom.