Family Guy in the Euro Republics

In the Euro Republics, Family Guy was originally broadcast in April 1999 on Channel 4's Friday evening comedy block. In Febuary 2000, sibling cable network Spark acquired the rights to show it on pay TV.

When Family Guy returned in 2005, it was broadcast on TV3 first and was also seen regularly on the youth focused sibling network ZTV, which Channel 4 had rebranded as in 2003.

When ZTV (which was music focused) was relaunched in September 2007 as the entertainment-focused TV4, Family Guy returned to the channel in terms of first-run rights. It was around this time that the channel began to broadcast episodes nightly in a late slot. The relaunch of ZTV as TV4 also saw the debut of American Dad! on free-to-air television in the country.