TV8 (Euro Republics)

TV8 is a Euro Republican news channel owned by EuroMedia.

TV8 is profiled as a commercial channel with own high quality-programming, about such matters as financial and foreign news. TV8 is also showing several talkshows about domestic politics, usually overnight. Documentaries, mostly from the United Kingdom, were also a part of the prime time schedules at launch.

TV8 is the most watched news channel in the country, with around 11 million viewers. It is the most viewed news channel in the country and is synonimus with good coverage. ETV have tried twice to buy the channel out but have failed. NextRadioTV, owners of the French channel BFM TV, attempted to buy TV8 in 2016, claming to close it down in favour of their own channel, BFM TV. EuroMedia declined and purchased them instead, moving all of it‘s assets to other companies in EuroMedia, closing NRTV down.

History
TV8 was launched on 15 October 1997 at 20:05, with the launch simulcasted on TV3.

For some years TV8 timeshared with the History Channel from 15:00-20:05 and Bloomberg Television in the mornings and afternoons meaning TV8’s own shows were only broadcast from 09:00-02:00 and 20:00-02:00. During the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Bloomberg was replaced with more TV8 news coverage. Bloomberg never returned as a channel, although some programming does appear.

In February 2003, EuroMedia launched their own historical channel, Viasat History. At the same time the programmes from History Channel disappeared from TV8. It was replaced by TV8's own programmes, making it a 24 hour news channel.

In 2003, following the move to 24-hour broadcasting, plans were announced to refocus TV8 as a 'personality-led' news network from January 2004, which would consist of new programmes, along with a simulcast of 3 News & ZTV Latest.