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.

History
TV8 was launched in October 1993, with the launch simulcasted on TV3. At the time of launch, TV8 was only available on ET1's satellite service on channel 8, but shown on TV3 on occasion.

Initally TV8 timeshared with the Discovery Channel from 15:00-20:00 meaning TV8’s own shows were only broadcast from 09:00-15:00 and 20:00-04:00. The channel closed between 4am and 9am.

September 1994 saw TV8 extend it's broadcasting hours, filling in the 4am-9am off air slot with more news bulletins and a simulcast of TV3's Sunrise programme.

Beginning in January 1995, ET1 moved the Discovery Channel to it's own broadcast space broadcasting from 17:00 to midnight timesharing with TLC - The Learning Channel, from 08:00 to 17:00. This was the moment where TV8 officially became a 24 hour channel.