Channel 6 (Euro Republics)

TV6 is a Euro Republican free-to-air television channel broadcasting entertainment, news & factual programmes, owned by Discovery & EuroMedia.

History
It first launched in 2006 as Channel 6, as mainly a simulcast of the Irish channel of the same name. It had some other shows not seen on the Irish version, notably The Simpsons, South Park and news reports on the hour were some of the shows. Six also had a mobile provider, 6Mobile, during this era. It was piggybacked from O2, whose owner was a subsidiary of EuroMedia. In 2008, with the announcement that Ireland’s Channel 6 was to rebrand as 3e, the Euro Republican channel would follow suite on the same day, however with different branding. The channel was seen by many as a Euro Republican version of the UK’s Sky One, with many of the same and similar programming. In 2010, 3e announced it’s intentions to partner with Apple to launch a new streaming service along with ETV and GO. iTV launched as a Euro Republican exclusive on August 23, 2010 and 3e was a streamable channel. In 2018, it rebranded to SIX.

On June 12, 2020, Six rebranded to Channel 6 and introduced a new “structured” lineup to compliment TV3. The rebrand was unsuccessful and the channel closed completely on October 16th, and was replaced by VH1 (on the same day that V5 became TMF).

In March 2021, EuroMedia sold 70% of the channel to Discovery, Inc., whilst EuroMedia kept a 30% stake in the channel.

This would mean the scheduling & programmes would be decided by Discovery, whilst some TV3 & FOX programmes would air in a contractual agreement with EuroMedia (hence 3C Gold).

EuroMedia would still be responsible for playing out the channel from Television Centre whilst their advertising organisation IP would sell & broadcast the ads from their HQs around the country (this allows IP to broadcast local ads on channels).

Discovery rebranded the channel on 16th June, 2021 at 6pm. New schedules were launched on the same day, with the local launch of the Newshub brand, with programmes produced by ERN & using the NZ brand, owned by Discovery.

News

 * Newshub Live At Six (2021-present)
 * Newshub Live At 11:30 (2021-present)
 * Newshub Live At 3 (2021-present)
 * Newshub Midnight (2021-present)
 * Newshub Nation (2021-present)
 * Newshub+ (2021-present)
 * The Project (2021-present)

Sports coverage

 * Euro Republics Superbikes (2021-present)
 * MotoGP World Championships (2013-present)
 * BDO World Darts Championship (2019-present)
 * English Football League (2007-present)