Channel 6 is changing its name to 3e on 5 January [Merged]

Elmo · 01-12-2008 02:46PM #1

Fully subsumed into TV3's web site.

TV3 have a family now awh!

mike65 · 01-12-2008 03:30PM

Saw that 2 weeks back

Mike

Elmo · 01-12-2008 03:41PM

mike65 wrote: »

Saw that 2 weeks back

Mike

How long until the name change, are we taking bets?

mike65 · 01-12-2008 03:53PM

TV3+1? TV3 Lite? TV3 Dave?

Within 6 months.

Mike

barneyeile · 01-12-2008 09:09PM

mike65 wrote: »

TV3+1? TV3 Lite? TV3 Dave?

Within 6 months.

Mike

TV6. You would have TV3, TV6 and in the future TV9. It will keep going up in three's. The 3 group of channels. That's my guess anyway.

byte · 01-12-2008 10:44PM

TV3 Extra or TV3.2

icdg · 02-12-2008 01:10AM

Elmo wrote: »

Fully subsumed into TV3's web site.

TV3 have a family now awh!

Wouldn't call it fully subsumed - it is still there, still at channel6.ie, and still a seperate design to the TV3 website. All that has happened is that that to get to the site, you have to go to the TV3 website first and then click the Channel 6 link - just typing www.channel6.ie gives you a page directing you to TV3.ie. There's a TV3 link on the channel6.ie website also.

For the moment it seems like an exercise in pushing up tv3.ie's hits...

Elmo · 02-12-2008 10:36AM

icdg wrote: »

Wouldn't call it fully subsumed - it is still there, still at channel6.ie, and still a seperate design to the TV3 website. All that has happened is that that to get to the site, you have to go to the TV3 website first and then click the Channel 6 link - just typing www.channel6.ie gives you a page directing you to TV3.ie. There's a TV3 link on the channel6.ie website also.

For the moment it seems like an exercise in pushing up tv3.ie's hits...

Yeah it is a bit daft TBH, www.channel6.ie brings you to a page telling you to go to TV3 to link to www.channel6.ie which brings you back to www.channel6.ie/index.php !!!!

I am going for TV3 X2 with 4 circles but the last one containing X2.

Elmo · 09-12-2008 11:04PM

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/michelles-shock-as-her-music-show-nightshift-is-axed-1568243.html

Pity really as it was at least something different and verging on alternative.

TV3 X2

X2 like BBC Radio One Extra logo

And they said they had no plans to rebrand lol Nightshift with the Xpose Girls

channelsurfer · 10-12-2008 09:24AM

oh great......tv3's idea of how to run a station. get rid of all the irish programming and replace it with all our itv2 programming such as xtra factor. it dosent bode will for channel6 or any hope people had that it would become a good channel.

ijc · 18-12-2008 12:59PM

Channel 6 is to change its name on January 5th, I think, to TV3e. There gonna ditch Nightshift and Take 6. But They say they are gonna invest in new programming for it. It's reported in the Daily Mail today.

Elmo · 18-12-2008 04:55PM

who had TV3e? anyone?

I prefered most of the names suggested on Boards.

TV3e!!!!

I am guessing TV3E and they are turing their current symbol around for the E cause E backwards is 3.

ethernet · 18-12-2008 05:01PM

I doubt Spanish TVE will like this very much.

Elmo · 18-12-2008 06:39PM

Koloman · 18-12-2008 08:59PM

ijc wrote: »

Channel 6 is to change its name on January 5th, I think, to TV3e. There gonna ditch Nightshift and Take 6. But They say they are gonna invest in new programming for it. It's reported in the Daily Mail today.

Just read that myself in the paper and to me it sounds STUPID! There were a lot of better names thought up in this forum alone!

ijc · 18-12-2008 11:34PM

I wonder will this name change make it more likely that C6/TV3e be available on Irish DTT- FTA. I think C6 got money from that Sound & Vision fund for their Cois Farraige programme. So TV3 could argue that the channel has a public service remit.

Mossy Monk · 18-12-2008 11:44PM

Possibly it will appear. I would welcome it in any case if they kept some of their current programming but oh my, what a terrible name.

Mossy Monk · 18-12-2008 11:45PM

ethernet wrote: »

I doubt Spanish TVE will like this very much.

How would it affect them? How did the many TV3's around the world react when TV3 was launched in Ireland?

flogen · 19-12-2008 01:15AM

TV3e.... bleh.

I'm not buying it yet because the domain www.tv3e.ie has not been snapped up by anyone yet - surely that would be the first thing they'd do once they had settled on a name.

I think TV6 would be better even though it's not that good at all.

channelsurfer · 19-12-2008 09:38AM

tv3E... or the irish itv2/E4 as ben frow is reported to have said in the article. so probably means all the american shows like house the wire etc.. will be dumped and replaced with much much better shows...such as xtra factor ..dancing on ice the rerun etc.... blah humbug me says....do the BCI in their ivory towers care? nope. they just allow the move to go ahead.

iseegirls · 19-12-2008 09:41AM

Wonder is there going to be a complete revamp of the schedule.

I think with the music that they should go down the route of E4 Music, or 4Music. Have different 1 hour shows looking at a different theme or singer/group. I find it boring watching Brian Deveroux for 2 hours daily.

I might expect repeats of Corrie and Emmerdale to go to 11pm or something like that (BBC 3 has Eastenders at 10pm which works well for them)

I think they'll put 30 Rock on this channel - it hasn't done well on TV3 and shifting it around a few times to no great reward.

I dunno what else, it's hard to know what's performing good on Channel 6, because we see none of their ratings.

Elmo · 19-12-2008 11:21AM

iseegirls wrote: »

I dunno what else, it's hard to know what's performing good on Channel 6, because we see none of their ratings.

I am guessing not much, they still have to reach 1% audience.

the irish itv2/E4 as ben frow is reported to have said in the article.

Ben prob thinks TV3 is the equivlant to C4 and ITV all roled into one. A better comparision would have been five i.e. Britian's TV3 and five US i.e. Britian's TV3E.

ethernet · 19-12-2008 11:28AM

Mossy Monk wrote: »

How would it affect them? How did the many TV3's around the world react when TV3 was launched in Ireland?

Couldn't tell you; wasn't at each one.

Elmo · 19-12-2008 11:40AM

Mossy Monk wrote: »

How would it affect them? How did the many TV3's around the world react when TV3 was launched in Ireland?

In fairness TV3 full title is TV3 Network Ireland ltd. While the Scandinavian (sp?) TV3s are Viasat.

But I am sure TVE spain won't mind.

icdg · 19-12-2008 08:58PM

Elmo wrote: »

In fairness TV3 full title is TV3 Network Ireland ltd. While the Scandinavian (sp?) TV3s are Viasat.

But I am sure TVE spain won't mind.

TV3 Television Network Limited, actually. There was another company registered called TV3 Ireland Productions Limited but the Companies' Office doesn't make clear whether this was actually a subsidary of TV3 and its wound up now anyway.

I don't see any problem with TV3e being FTA on DTT, other than the small but not inconsequential fact that it would have to arrange carraige with either RTÉ or Boxer. There will be little space for it on RTÉ's mux and Boxer have made their intention to run a 100% pay TV service abundantly clear.

As for RTVE objecting, I doubt it. Their corporate name is similar to RTÉ's, after all, but there's no objecting to that! There is also at least two TV broadcasters called ABC (American Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and previously also ABC Weekend TV who were an original ITV company in the 1950s.

bazzer · 19-12-2008 09:15PM

TV3e? Yuk! To many 'e-e-e' sounds too close together.

Keep it simple, like 3+ or ThreePlus.

Elmo · 19-12-2008 10:07PM

icdg wrote: »

I don't see any problem with TV3e being FTA on DTT, other than the small but not inconsequential fact that it would have to arrange carraige with either RTÉ or Boxer. There will be little space for it on RTÉ's mux and Boxer have made their intention to run a 100% pay TV service abundantly clear.

I would have no problem with it either if DTT Ireland was FTA and we had another Irish Broadcaster FTA.

The current mix of shows on TV3 and Channel 6 do not suggest that either of them should be on the PBS MUX imo.

I would hate to see TV3e reaching 3% let alone their current 1%. The free mux must be worthwhile.

The IFB Channel and the Oirechtas channel are not worth while in their suggested formats.

barnicles · 20-12-2008 12:16PM

I agree. There were names on the forums here that were 1000x better than TV3E.

iseegirls · 21-12-2008 01:29PM

Emmerdale omnibus on Channel 6/TV3e on Sat the 3rd of January!

It's deffo gonna become an ITV2

Mossy Monk · 21-12-2008 01:31PM

A poor channel turning into insufferable ****e.

Charles Slane · 21-12-2008 01:35PM

I liked Channel 6 and watched it quite often. Unfortunately I was one of the few. Shame to see it turn into TV3e.

Channel 6 is changing its name to 3e on 5 January [Merged]

Comments