The Gay Byrne Irish Television Thread 2.0

[TVenthusiasm]

Launched back in April, only on the VM cable platform, it basically replaced the old VMTV Sport channel and shows some first run dramas and some other stuff in the evenings and some of the sport that was on the old sport channel during the day.

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Gone to Disney+.

But VMTV Two isn’t that type of channel any more and hasn’t been for a few years. Truth is VMTV as a whole are totally reliant on ITV as a content provider outside of news, sport, and some talk shows.

In fact, dare I say it, but VMTV has sort of become a de facto ITV region in some aspects, to make an example, years ago I watched a live simulcast of This Morning on VMTV One, and I remember Philip and Holly handing over to the local weather, and you had this weather forecaster for VMTV One doing a full forecast for Ireland.......like it was just another ITV region! I was a bit stunned to see that to be honest

Indeed, when I watched This Morning on VM1 earlier, there was a weather report for Ireland! So with all the ITV programmes on VMTV in general plus the endless repeats that dominate the schedules on VM1 and VM2, they might as well rebrand VMTV 'ITV Ireland'.