List of ITV channels

The franchises were reallocated several times and now all the franchises are owned by ITV plc and STV Group, and are branded as ITV1 (in England, Wales, Southern Scotland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands), STV (in Central and Northern Scotland) or UTV/ITV1 (in Northern Ireland).

The network broadcasts a variety of programming, such as entertainment, dramas, documentaries, news, films and sport.

ITVBe is a reality TV and lifestyle television channel from ITV plc, which launched on 8 October 2014.

On 3 September 2018, ITV introduced a new children's strand titled LittleBe, which is dedicated to British preschool programming on ITVBe.

The channel launched on 11 March 2006 at 09:25 with Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown, on Freeview, Virgin Media and TalkTalk TV.

On 9 January 2012, a change in the FEC mode on the multiplex allowed CITV to broadcast in Wales on Freeview.

It was embroiled in a scandal involving overpriced premium-rate phone lines, by which ITV plc pulled the channel off air until further notice.

It closed prior to the collapse of the platform due to ITV's financial difficulties and poor uptake.

The ITV Sport Channel originally launched in 1999 after ONdigital had acquired exclusive rights to screen every match from the UEFA Champions League.

On 11 August 2001, ONsport was closed and was replaced by the ITV Sport Channel, which launched as a subscription service.

Lasting for just one football season; the ITV Sport Channel closed on Sunday 12 May 2002 with the Division 2 Play-off Final between Brentford and Stoke.

Whilst football was the mainstay of the channel, it showed the ATP Masters Series, British basketball and European Cup rugby union.

Merit launched in July 2020 exclusively on Freeview channel 34 that began broadcasting cooking and gardening programmes from 9pm to midnight.

The channel was owned by ITV plc since February 2016, following the sale of UTV Media's television assets.

Owned by Carlton Communications, showing cooking programmes, the channel was relaunched in 2001 as Taste CFN following the signing of a joint venture with the supermarket chain Sainsbury's.

It closed in January 2002 on Sky and ITV Digital due to poor viewing figures, but continued until April 2002 to honour contracts with NTL and Telewest.

Although ITV plc is now the sole owner of GSB, Sky will receive 49.5 per cent of any proceeds (net of liabilities) if Men & Motors is sold.

While it was still broadcasting, it was available from 11:00 to 04:00 every day with ITV Nightscreen taking up the hours of 04:00 to 06:00 and a mixture of teleshopping and animated captions between 06:00 and 11:00.

Men & Motors was removed from Virgin Media on 25 March 2010, and closed on 1 April 2010 on Sky Digital and Freesat, making way for ITV1 HD.

[18] The last of the original GSB channels, Granada Talk TV focused primarily on chat shows.

Wellbeing was a health and beauty focused channel, a joint venture between Granada and Boots which lasted just nine months on air in 2001.

This was a pan-European cable and satellite channel launched in 1987 by all of the ITV companies except Thames Television (who was a shareholder in the SES Astra satellite operator instead), with the assistance of BBC Worldwide (then Enterprises) and of a few other third parties, such as the independent music television producer Music Box.

This channel aimed to beam a selection of the best of British television from both past and present (from both the BBC and ITV) to those living in mainland Europe.

It was aimed both at foreign viewers and British expatriates, along with the syndicated ITN World News and a few other programmes coming from other European countries (such as Holland).

However, the channel ran into severe financial difficulties almost from the start, with rights problems involving Equity demanding full payment of royalties for its archive programming, and poor viewing figures, advertising revenue and profits.

The channel eventually had to scrap much of its BBC and ITV output, and after failing to achieve its expectations in 1988 the channel's British shareholders sold the entirety of its shares to the Italian consortium Beta Television, who changed its programming output completely, although it continued carrying the ITN World News and being based in London.

The Guardian newspaper speculated that the failure of Super Channel might have been a historical precedent to the bad luck that ITV has generally had with cable and satellite television.

Dubbed the "chatmercial", The Store combines the format of a chatshow with home TV shopping in front of a studio audience.

Despite BSkyB and SMG entering into a seven-year contract to run the service, it closed after 18 months due to poor viewing figures and for failing to reach financial targets.

STV2 was a local television network in Scotland, operating five city-based TV licences serving Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Ayr.