Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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ITV2 is a very familiar channel these days, but did you know it only debuted back in 1998?! It would take ITV almost 40 YEARS to get their second branded channel up and running... but why? And was it ultimately worth the wait?

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