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GMTV2
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| Based in | London |
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| Broadcast area | National (Breakfast 6:00 am - 9:25 am) |
| Launched | December 7, 1998 |
 GMTV2 weekend logo |
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| Replaced by | Simulcasts CITV Channel (of which GMTV also controls within the same hours) on weekdays |
| Website | gm.tv |
| Owned by | ITV plc (75%), The Walt Disney Company (25%) |
GMTV2 is a British digital television station owned by GMTV, a consortium of ITV plc and The Walt Disney Company. It broadcasts every morning between 6am and 9.25am (on the same channel as ITV2). It is designed to complement its sister channel GMTV, and offers children's programming on weekdays which is simulcast on GMTV's slot on the CITV Channel.
Weekends are primarily devoted to children's programming also, with Wakey! Wakey! airing throughout Saturday mornings on GMTV2 Kids and up until 8.00am on Sundays. At 8.00, however, a repeat of The Sunday Programme, a political and current affairs show, airs on GMTV2 one hour after it has finished on GMTV1. A teleshopping strand is featured at weekends once scheduled programming runs out after nine o'clock.
The station closes down at 9.25am, when ITV2 programming takes over.
As of November 2006, a one-hour delayed version of GMTV2 has been available on ITV2+1 on Sky and now also on Freeview, running from 7am to 10.25am.
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(simulcast entirely on the CITV Channel)
- 6.00am-7.00am - Wakey! Wakey! - programming for preschoolers
- 7.00am-9.25am - Action Stations! - action/adventure cartoons for older children
- 6.00am-9.00am - Wakey! Wakey! - largely in-house preschool output.
- 9.00am-9.25am - Teleshopping
- 6.00am-8.00am - Wakey! Wakey! - programming for preschoolers, simulcast on the CITV Channel
- 8.00am-9.25am - The Sunday Programme - repeated one hour after a first run on GMTV
Companies: ITV plc • SMG plc • UTV plc • Channel Television Ltd
ITV Franchises
Northern Scotland: Grampian, STV North • Central Scotland: Scottish, STV Central • Scottish/English Border and Isle of Man: Border • Northern Ireland: UTV • North East England: Tyne Tees • Yorkshire/Lincolnshire: Yorkshire • North and North West England: ABC, Granada • Wales and the West of England: TWW, WWN, ITSWW, HTV • Midlands: ATV, ABC, Central • East Anglia: Anglia • London: Rediffusion, ATV, Thames, LWT, Carlton • South and South East England: Southern, TVS, Meridian • South West England: Westward, TSW, Westcountry • Channel Islands: Channel
National franchises
Breakfast: TV-am, GMTV/GMTV2 • Teletext: ORACLE, Teletext Ltd.
Non-franchise regions
STV • ITV Thames Valley • ITV London
News: ITN, ITV News • Sport: ITV Sport • Children: CITV • Online: itv.com, ITV Local • Mobile: ITV Mobile • Weather: ITV Weather
Digital channels: List of ITV channels See Also: ITV television presentation