S2 (television channel)
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S2 was a television station broadcast by SMG plc (which owns stv) on Digital Terrestrial Television in most of Scotland. It was launched in 1999. The programming was mostly specially made, but it eventually changed to being a simulcast with the ITV2 station shown in the rest of Great Britain.
Towards the end of its life, it mainly simulcast ITV2, but covered the ITV2 graphic with an opaque S2 graphic [link]. This caused controversy and drove the broadcaster further into removing the channel. By 2001, it had lost nearly all of its Scottish programmes and found itself simulcasting with ITV2 the vast majority of the time[link].
Although S2 initially had great ambitions for the station, it closed in 2001 as part of a deal with ITV Digital [link]. The channel capacity was replaced by ITV2 and the ITV Sports Channel. When the sports channel closed, it was replaced by the now also-defunct ITV News Channel.
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