ERC Media

ERC Media, legally Emoa Regional Channels Ltd is an informal body owned 62% by Emoa Television, 33% by Forest Media and 5% by Apollo Media which deals with programme scheduling, co-operation of resources and the provision of syndicated material solely between franchisees which are owned or related to Emoa. The funding, direction and control of programming available to ERC Media is overseen by its constituents, who control scheduling and syndication of off-peak services. ESS, the overnight programming bloc produced for NETV, Mercia and GTV, is controlled entirely by ERC, and produced by NETV. ERC has no influence on any regional programmes produced by the regional companies, only to ensure there is sufficient scheduling space.

In addition to the directly owned Emoa franchises NETV and Mercia, GTV (owned 15% by Emoa Television) is also a member of the ERC Group. It was joined in March 2011 by ECTV following Emoa's acquisition of 10% of its parent company, Apollo Media. ESS on ECTV operates by an extended licence, named "ess (Extension)", legally operating as a separate body to the service viewed in the core ERC Media regions which share a corporate link. Despite this, the service in reality is identical between all four regions and all four members contribute programming for the whole group.

Full members

 * GTV
 * Mercia Television
 * NETV

Extended members

 * ECTV