[JMT1985]

Yeah, pretty much.

The ideal buyer for the TV side would in fact be ITV, since they effectively provide it with about 80% of its programmes between programmes actually part of the ITV Studios deal and other ITV commissions they’ve bought separately. But they actually had a stake in it in the past and multiple opportunities to buy and never did.

Granada was the original stake holder in TV3 from the turn of the millennium, which saw Coronation Street and Emmerdale leave RTE and move over to TV3 which was apparently big news in Irish media back in the year 2000