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| - Channel 5, known as Five from 2002 until 2010 before reverting to its old name, was the last terrestrial television broadcaster to be launched in the United Kingdom. It went on air in late March 1997, starting with an exclusive Spice Girls video. Unlike The BBC, ITV and Channel 4, Channel 5 was not organized by the British government. Although it uses public airwaves, and is therefore subject to public service broadcasting restrictions, Channel 5 has not had so many restrictions placed on its output as the other terrestrial channels.
- Channel 5, Channel Five or Five is a television channel that was launched in 1997 as Channel 5. It was the fifth analog transmitter with national scope in the United Kingdom. it started especially with cheap to produce programs, which mainly consisted of cheap tv shows. However, since its image change and the change of name from "Channel 5" "Five" in 2002, they knew to take more market share steadily. This on the basis of the reality shows and more purchases of more expensive drama shows from the United States. In 2011 the war name to Channel 5, after a takeover by Northern & Shell.
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| - Channel 5, Channel Five or Five is a television channel that was launched in 1997 as Channel 5. It was the fifth analog transmitter with national scope in the United Kingdom. it started especially with cheap to produce programs, which mainly consisted of cheap tv shows. However, since its image change and the change of name from "Channel 5" "Five" in 2002, they knew to take more market share steadily. This on the basis of the reality shows and more purchases of more expensive drama shows from the United States. Channel 5 is part of Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited that since 2011 is 100% owned by Northern & Shell. Between 2005 and 2011 was the property of RTL Group. On 25 July 2010, it was announced that RTL for an amount of EUR 125 million the channel Five has sold to Richard Desmond, owner of Northern & Shell. In 2006 Five launched two additional digital channels: Five Life (now known as 5 *), which mainly on young women, and Five US (now known as 5 USA), that in addition to American TV shows as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Prison Break broadcasts with the United States also own productions as theme. In 2011 the war name to Channel 5, after a takeover by Northern & Shell.
- Channel 5, known as Five from 2002 until 2010 before reverting to its old name, was the last terrestrial television broadcaster to be launched in the United Kingdom. It went on air in late March 1997, starting with an exclusive Spice Girls video. Britain's UHF transmitter network was originally designed to transmit four networks over most of the country. 5's frequencies had to be squeezed between the existing frequencies, often at lower power to avoid interference, and in some parts of the country its signal was weak or nonexistent. In addition, the frequency at which it was broadcast could cause interference with VCRs, leading to people around the country having to retune their VCRs. In order to increase its availability in these areas, it became the first terrestrial network to duplicate its programming on satellite. Today it is available on all digital platforms and analogue in some areas. Unlike The BBC, ITV and Channel 4, Channel 5 was not organized by the British government. Although it uses public airwaves, and is therefore subject to public service broadcasting restrictions, Channel 5 has not had so many restrictions placed on its output as the other terrestrial channels. The channel used to be notorious for its pornographic content after the Watershed, a reputation exacerbated by an exec who supposedly declared that the channel was about "the three F's -- films, football, and fornicating". She actually said that the channel was about "more than the three F's", but was misquoted. Whether the misquote was intentional, however... Although some relics of this sordid past crop up every once in a while (the late night schedules are now mostly devoted to sport and Super Casino), Channel 5 is now best known as the British home of a number of U.S. crime dramas, including all three of the CSI Verse shows (with which it has a severe case of Adored by the Network). It's also shown Flash Forward, The Mentalist, Grey's Anatomy, Thirty Rock, Law and Order, Charmed, NCIS, House, Californication, Xena: Warrior Princess, That 70s Show and others. (However, the channel has yet to demonstrate any real loyalty to any series which doesn't have "CSI" in the title -- 30 Rock, Charmed and House, among others, were all dropped; the channel also picked up Angel when Channel 4 let it go after its disastrous handling of the first season... and dropped it after the second.) Channel Five famously paid over the odds for Joey, a show which gave them one of their highest-ever audiences for the first episode...and then sank without trace. It has two digital offshoot channels, "5USA" and "5*" (Five-star). The former shows a lot of U.S. imports, while the latter depends largely on Home and Away and Neighbours (although this also airs several American series, such as Archer and The Lying Game). Channel 5 was formerly owned by the Radio Television Luxembourg [RTL] Group, who own a number of other European channels, but as of July 2010 is owned by British Newspapers baron Richard "Dirty" Desmond's Northern and Shell, owner of the Daily Express and Daily Star, plus a few more, shall we say, "adult" satellite channels.
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