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ITV2: The Launch, Monday 7th December 1998

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This clip sees the opening couple of minutes of ITV2, presented by Gabby Yorath and Vinne Jones with a feat of ITV celebrities from the time. Also look out for the gigantic DOG, on TV you can't see all of it.

The channel was only available on Cable & Wireless and On Digital where it was available in 16:9 mode, on CWC we had to bear 4:3, at times that didn't go to plan.

Apparently the ratings for this programme at the time were only 700 I remember.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: October 1, 2008 at 3:11 am
Author: steviegTVreturns

Length: 00:02:13
Rating: 5.00
Views: 1256

Tags: ITV2 ITV GranadaTV CarltonTV OnDigital CableTV 1998

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ROTSSisalive (December 13, 2008 at 8:02 am)

they didn't celebrate its 10th properly did they?

gottagothatsme (November 19, 2008 at 11:45 am)

Who'd have thought Billie Piper would have her tits out on that very channel 10 years later?!

Halfbricktv2 (October 1, 2008 at 1:53 pm)

I remember watching ITV3's launch 4 years ago, it's nice to see the moment ITV2 hit our screens. 700 viewers, wow that is really low!

IanHangMusic (October 1, 2008 at 8:40 am)

New channel AND a new look? How can something new have something new?!

DJFairborne77 (October 1, 2008 at 6:07 am)

Good video, hard to believe that it's nearly 10 years ago though! ITV2 did struggle for it's first few years though, as ratings were quite low, mainly due to their refusal to join Sky Digital. Once "On Digital" started to go wrong, it was funny that ITV then launched both ITV1/2 on Sky. Quite ironic that after it did launch on Sky, ITV2 fast became one of the most popular digital channels, whereas it's launch was only watched by 700 viewers!

steviegTVreturns (October 1, 2008 at 3:58 pm)

I remember ratings turned around overnight the day ITV2 went on Sky, the first time they got over 1 Million viewers was when Will Young won Pop Idol in 2002, the programme was Pop Idol Extra. Don't forget ITV2 was only available in the Granada/Carlton/UNM Regions, and On Digital was available to less than 50% of the population at the time too, at least ITV stuck with it, the top multi channel now I believe.

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