Other programmes included Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse, Judge Judy, omnibus editions of ITV soaps Emmerdale and Coronation Street, and a Saturday football results service. Katie Derham presented a weekly media programme called Wide Angle, John Suchet fronted a weekly current affairs discussion programme called Who, What, Why, and Trevor McDonald presented an interview series, Trevor McDonald Meets. Much of the original content in its launch schedule was current affairs related programming fronted by ITV newscasters. While ITV2 is now a popular entertainment channel, at its launch in 1998 it was a mixed genre channel. Other ITV licensees, SMG, UTV and GMTV launched their own services in the space (see below). Whilst free-to-air, it was marketed alongside their own subscription based ONdigital platform.
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Whilst strictly speaking this space belonged to each regional contractor for use within their own region, ITV had undergone a series of buy-outs earlier on in the decade the three players operating the majority of the network, Granada, Carlton, and United News & Media, jointly launched ITV2 in 1998 to be broadcast to most of the country as a uniform service. The launch of digital terrestrial television services in the UK saw each existing analogue terrestrial broadcaster given a slice of bandwidth with which to carry their existing service after analogue switch-off with space left over for new channels. However, the name resurfaced in the late 1990s for very different reasons. Prior to the launch of Channel 4 in 1982, the name "ITV2" had sometimes been used to refer informally to an envisioned second commercial network in the UK. 8.2 Second-run programmes currently showing.In November 2021, the channel moved into the true-crime genre with Social Media Murders a three-part documentary series with a different case examined every night over three days. The channel is primarily aimed at the 16/18–34 age group, just like BBC Three, E4 and Sky Max and is known for American programming such as adult animations Family Guy, American Dad! and Bob's Burgers, repeats of recently aired episodes of soap operas and other entertainment programming from ITV such as Coronation Street and Emmerdale 60-second entertainment news bulletin FYI Daily, which airs in-between films and original programming such as Celebrity Juice and Love Island. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 both of which are freely available to a majority of households.
ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc.
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