Channel 5 (United Kingdom)

Channel 5
	TV station ( private law )
Program type	Full program
reception	terrestrial , cable , satellite , IPTV
Image resolution	( Entry missing )
Start of transmission	March 30, 1997
owner	Viacom International Media Networks
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Channel 5 is a British television station that first aired in 1997. It was owned by the RTL Group until 2010 and was then sold to the British media company Northern & Shell . In 2013 the market share was 4.0 percent. On May 1, 2014, the current owner agreed that Channel 5 would be sold to Viacom for £ 450 million (around € 567.4 million) . This has integrated the station into the Viacom International Media Networks group of companies - more precisely into the London-based operational unit Viacom International Media Networks for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and the Central and Eastern European countries .

reception

Channel 5 has been broadcasting on a terrestrial network since its inception and can be received across much of the UK. This chain was only put together in the 1990s from the last “frequency remnants” and therefore did not have the same range as the four older frequency chains on which BBC One , BBC Two , ITV 1 and Channel 4 broadcast. These residual frequencies were mostly in the range of the UHF channel 36, which was intended for the RF output of the video recorder in Western Europe at that time.Channel 5 had to ensure at its own expense that the channel of the video recorder was switched or through a filter, depending on the wishes of the person concerned Channel 5 reception has been made impossible. Coverage was poor in parts of southern England and Scotland, among other places. Analogue TV was discontinued in the UK between 2008 and 2012 and after the analogue shutdown, Channel 5 has achieved the same coverage as BBC One, Two, ITV 1 and Channel 4. Up to 99.4% of all households in Great Britain can receive Channel 5 via DVB-T . In addition, reception via cable and Astra 28.2 ° East is possible. In addition to the timeshift versions 5 +1 and 5 +24 , the station can also be received in HD. The start of the broadcast was accompanied by a massive advertising campaign with the Spice Girls . The station traditionally has the worst audience ratings of the five historic programs, but has been attracting a great deal of attention with this program since Channel 4's Big Brother format was adopted .

Corner logo

From the very beginning, Channel 5 broadcast with a so-called “ corner logo ”, that is, the transmitter identification that is common in Germany in a corner of the screen. Up until then, this was unusual in Great Britain and the biggest competitors did not introduce permanently displayed logos after viewer protests. In 2002 the fifth TV channel also did without a corner logo. The corner logo was reintroduced at the end of 2007.

First logo (March 30, 1997 - September 16, 2002)
Second logo (September 16, 2002 - October 6, 2008)
Third logo (October 6, 2008 - February 14, 2011)
Fourth logo (since February 14, 2011)

Offshoot

5Star

On October 15, 2006, the first offshoot of Channel 5 started under the name five life , broadcasting programs such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show and addressing a female target group with this and other programs. The name five.2 was planned for the transmitter .

On April 28, 2008 at 6:00 am, five became life fiver . The program has been revised, including repetitions of Sex and the City .

On March 7, 2011, fiver became 5 * . The transmission time was limited to 1:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., teleshopping windows are shown for the rest of the time . The channel 5 * +1 , which previously started as a timeshift version, was replaced by Channel 5 +24 on February 3, 2014 . Since September 16, 2014, the time-shifted variant has been offered again.

Five life logo (October 15, 2006 - April 27, 2008)
First fiver logo (April 28, 2008 - October 6, 2008)
Second fiver logo (October 7, 2008 - March 6, 2011)
Logo of 5 * (March 7, 2011 - February 11, 2016)

5USA

On October 16, 2006, the first offshoot of Channel 5 started under the name five US , the name five.3 was planned for the station . On February 16, 2009 the station became five USA , on March 7, 2011 it became 5USA . A timeshift version ( 5USA +1 ) also exists.

Logo of five USA (February 16, 2009 - March 6, 2011)
Logo of 5USA (March 7, 2011 - February 11, 2016)

Web links

Official website (English)

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