UTV2

UTV2

Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	Northern Ireland
Headquarters	Havelock House, Belfast
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Ulster Television plc
Sister channels	UTV
History
Launched	28 June 1999; 22 years ago (1999-06-28)
Closed	22 January 2002; 19 years ago (2002-01-22)
Replaced by	ITV2
Former names	TV You (1999-2000)
Links
Website	u.tv
Availability (at time of closure)
Terrestrial
ITV Digital	Channel 6
Cable
NTL	Channel 117

UTV2 was a television channel, owned by Ulster Television plc (now UTV Media). The channel was on digital terrestrial television and NTL cable in Northern Ireland.

The channel launched on 28 June 1999 as TV You, but was rebranded as UTV2 in 2000. The programming consisted primarily of simulcasts with ITV2, as broadcast in England, Wales and the Scottish Borders, although they did also use archive programmes from UTV.

Unusually, for a commercial station, UTV2 did not carry any advertising. This was presumably due to their failure to attract advertisers to UTV2, which was only receivable by a few thousand viewers.

UTV2 closed on 22 January 2002 following a deal with ITV Digital and was replaced by ITV2.^[1]

See also[]

• UTV
• ITV2
• S2

References[]

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