User:Telco/TV channels in my countries

ETV One

 * Previously known as Euro Republican Television and ERTV 1 before the R was dropped in January 1997.
 * The channel, despite being publicly owned, also includes advertising,
 * ERTV didn't begin advertising until 1991, following in the footsteps of TV3.
 * ETV One has a very serious line of programmes in the primetime hours with most of the entertainment shows being shoved onto Network 2, whilst ETV One focuses more on documentaries, current affairs, culture, news, drama and "intelligent" comedy. This has seemingly been dialed down in more recent years however with the likes of Lego Masters and The Challenge.
 * Oh, and lots of daytime shows about people finding new houses, such as A Place In The Sun & Homes Under The Hammer, the latter was previously shown on TV3 until 2017, but EuroMedia still own the first run pay TV rights on the Lifestyle channel.
 * Seemingly in spite of this, the daytime schedule is more downmarket with the likes of The Chase and Amelia Ambrose's Happy Hour.

Network Two

 * Has an RTÉ2 & El TV Kadsre 5 flair.
 * The director of programming was imprisoned once.
 * The second to lowest-rated channel.
 * An unbranded block of programmes for pre-schoolers (mostly) occupies one third of the daily schedule.
 * Some programming for older kids is included, though, but mostly consists of crude & cheap Canadian cartoons 3C passed on, most of the shows air as part of a partnership with British channel.

TV3

 * The most watched channel in the country.
 * The channel's afternoon & early evening lineup is mostly hogged by the 3C block between 3pm and 6pm.
 * It used to be known as Club3, C3 & The Fix.
 * The first half hour is usually sanctioned off as a section for the baby shows.
 * TV3 was the first commercial channel in the country.
 * Unlike most channels, TV3 and it’s sister channels all still use in-vision continuity.
 * TV3 was once the trashiest TV channel, as it airs virtually every big reality format, but they are rebranding the channel to reinforce the channel's output, to give it a more serious backbone, including Spark defectant Opus.
 * Oh and This Morning, a show whose entire audience is seemingly women.
 * Despite this, 3 News has always been pretty in-depth and serious.
 * The channel has been the ER home of The Simpsons since January 1991, but in 1995 new episodes began to air first on Ch 4 whilst TV3 aired them the next night.
 * Before then, the first season was 1st screened on premium channel Premiere from September to December 1990, and they continued to air there until being dropped by the channel in 1996, despite it's popularity, as bosses at the channel replaced the show with North Springs, saying the crude humour and newfound popularity in the States would a better fit for the channel than The Simpsons. That being said, they also picked up similar show South Park, and Dumb Teacher in 2005.

TV4

 * Described on their Twitter page as "TV3's other side". This is due to TV4 being owned by the same company as TV3.
 * The channel for the youth.
 * Slightly more upmarket and a lot more experimental than TV3.
 * 3C runs on FOX too, weekdays in the breakfast slot (5:30am-10am and until 2pm on school holidays), and on weekend afternoons between April-September. The 3C block on FOX never competes with the TV3 strand.
 * On the weekday morning strand, it is split up into 3 90-minute slots, preschool programmes at 5:30, then older kids shows at 7am, back to preschool programmes at 8:30.
 * It is one of the only youth channels to do a nightly news show.
 * The channel has been through an identity crisis, originally known as Channel 4, then ZTV, and then TV4, and then FOX before reverting to TV4 in 2023.
 * Many shows aired on TV4 usually end up on TV3 after a few series if they are popular.