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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.
 * The adverts only show up between programmes in primetime and not during them like on other channels. The same can be said for Network Two. Ads do appear during daytime programmes however.
 * 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

 * 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.
 * The slot was introduced (or rather, really heavily extended) when the Labour government and the Euroish Broadcasting Authority wrapped ETV on the knuckles for not providing enough high quality children's programmes.

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 Club 3, C3 & The Fix.
 * The first half hour is usually sanctioned off for 3C Playbox, ostensibly a section for the baby shows with in-vision studio presentation along the lines of what CBeebies and Milkshake do on the BBC and Channel 5 in the UK.
 * Children's programmes have always been something that TV3 have done very well, having became a formidable competitior for kids' TV with the launch of Club 3 in 1990, with the September 1995 relaunch (which co-incided with the debuts of several long-running series) practically kicking ERTV's arse out of the park ratings wise, something they've never recovered from.
 * TV3 was the first commercial channel in the country.
 * That channel that Barcroft used to be on.
 * 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 Channel 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 in favour of North Springs, saying the crude humour and newfound popularity in the States would a better fit for the channel than The Simpsons. By 1992 however, Premiere was merely repeating it as opposed to well, premiering it.

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 main PSB channel for the youth.
 * Slightly more upmarket and a lot more experimental than TV3.
 * 3C runs on TV4 too and is the main FTA home of 3C Playbox, weekdays in the breakfast and mid-morning slot (05.30-12.00, 16.00-18.00). The main 3C has two hours of airtime a day on TV4 (07.00-09.00) with the remaining children's strands being 3C Playbox branded.
 * 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 somewhat of an identity crisis, originally launching in 1995 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.

Prime

 * A channel which feels very much like the forgotten link of the Euroish PSB's. Not unlike the fight that The WB and UPN put up with in the US for 11 years.
 * Initally conceived as a satellite and cable repeats channel in 1992 (mostly broadcasting old British series and old ERTV programmes) before initiating a daily news bulletin and slowly upping the amount of original programming. The channel went clear (free-to-air) in March 1996, co-inciding with the launch of ET1 Digital. It was available on digital terrestrial television from the moment it launched.
 * TV3 attempted to buy it twice - once in 2004 and trying again in 2018.
 * Desperate to be seen as the official "fifth channel", hampered by the LCN 5 slot on terrestrial being allocated by FIVE, and 116 on ET1.