The Hits and TMF....

It's a question but it involves presentation so I apolgise if it is in the wrong forum. I have Freeview in my room and every weekend I see The Hits and TMF showing similar programming. Examples include The Hits showing some Irish Countdown and TMF showing music picked from Boyzone (who are Irish), The Hits showing movie-related songs, and TMF showing a countdown of movie OSTs, and both channels showing 80s countdowns.

I would understand if they were the same company - but they're not. IIRC, TMF is an MTV channel, with The Hits owned by eMap. Surely there's a reason for both channels showing similarly-genred music at these times.. is there?

It's St. Patrick's weekend...?!

I see his point though - I flicked onto both TMF and The Hits about the same time the other day to see they were both playing the same song, it was a themed song as well...something from the 80s, Bonnie Tyler I think.

I do like it when Magic Radio (also EMAP run) amalgamates with The Hits like this afternoon however...soppy old power ballads!

EMAP used to be run by Fame Academy judge Richard Park - not sure he's still involved but he did a show on Magic sometime last year.

Anyway, I'm not sure why TMF have similar countdowns at the same time as The Hits, does seem a bit odd, unless of course its St Patricks Day or an event.

Since TMF hasn't been a proper music channel for years they've probably sacked anyone who has a clue about music. So they just look at Emap's schedules and copy them instead. I've not watched either channel on a regular basis for a couple of years now, E4Music win hands down. A full time C4 music channel can't come soon enough!

It was an example I used.

Agreed as soon as one of their +1 channels is replaced with a 4Music channel the better