"series such as ""Your Sport"" focusing on sport in local communities. Upon launch, Channel 5's programming followed a strict schedule with the intention that viewers could tune in and always know what to expect. Major features of the Channel 5's early scheduling structure included daily soap opera ""Family Affairs"" at 6.30pm, a nightly news broadcast at 8.30pm, presented by Kirsty Young. That was followed by a film at 9pm every night and ""The Jack Docherty Show"", a comedy chat show. Daytime programmes included ""Sunset Beach"", the American soap opera, Leeza Gibbons' chat show, ""Leeza"" and ""5 News Early"". Weekend programming"
"of 1997, billboards of Jack Docherty were displayed, along with other unknown characters. A series of pre-launch screens were displayed on the frequencies Channel 5 would begin broadcasting on in the months before launch as well, including a trailer for the channel and information screens. After re-tuning, around 65% of the population's televisions could view the channel on launch night. The channel's launch on Easter Sunday (30 March) 1997 at 6pm featured the Spice Girls singing a re-written version of Manfred Mann's hit ""5-4-3-2-1"" as ""1-2-3-4-5"". Presenters Tim Vine and Julia Bradbury introduced the nation to the UK's fifth (sixth"
"Channel 5 (Singapore) Channel 5 is a Singaporean free-to-air television channel. Its programming mainly consists of English-language dramas, movies, sports, reality show, variety show, news, current affairs and game shows. Local editions of imported programmes such as ""Singapore Idol"", ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"" and ""Deal or No Deal"" have also been aired on the channel. Channel 5 was launched as its first pilot television service on 15 February 1963 as ""Televisyen Singapura"". The channel operated two hours on black and white during its test transmissions. It was officially launched on 2 April 1963 as ""Saluran 5 Televisyen Singapura"
"immediate effect, and it was relaunched on 14 February 2011. On 1 May 2014 the channel was acquired by Viacom for £450 million (US$759 million). Channel 5 is a general entertainment channel that shows both internally commissioned programmes such as ""Fifth Gear"", ""Big Brother & Celebrity Big Brother"", ""The Gadget Show"", ""The Hotel Inspector"", ""Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away!"" and """" and foreign programmes. The station has been very successful with imports from the United States in particular, including the ""CSI"" franchise, the ""NCIS"" franchise, the first 3 series in the ""Law & Order franchise"", ""Power Rangers"", ""The Mentalist"","
"5Star 5Star is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Viacom. It is a sister channel of Channel 5, 5Spike, 5USA and 5Select. It originally launched as the female-oriented Five Life on 15 October 2006, and was rebranded as Fiver on 28 April 2008 with a revised version of the same concept. The channel later re-branded as 5* on 7 March 2011, and later to its current name on 11 February 2016. The channel was intended to be a female-oriented channel with an emphasis on lifestyle programming. Channel 5 announced that programming on launch would include ""The Ellen DeGeneres Show"","
"December 2001. Between 12 January to 9 December 2001, Channel 5 broadcast two seasons of the popular game show ""The Mole"" which quickly gained a cult following. In 2003, Channel 5 acquired cult show ""Robot Wars"", previously shown on BBC Two, though the show ended soon after this. The evening magazine show ""Live from Studio Five"" was launched in September 2009 with a strong emphasis on entertainment news. The show was axed in February 2011 and replaced with ""OK! TV"" co-hosted by Kate Walsh who also presented the former show. As part of the relaunch of February 2011, Channel 5"
"simulcast network, airing Channel 5's programming on high-definition live. On March 2017, due to the digital terrestrial television availability nationwide, HD5 was discontinued in favour of Channel 5 HD. Channel 5 (Singapore) Channel 5 is a Singaporean free-to-air television channel. Its programming mainly consists of English-language dramas, movies, sports, reality show, variety show, news, current affairs and game shows. Local editions of imported programmes such as ""Singapore Idol"", ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"" and ""Deal or No Deal"" have also been aired on the channel. Channel 5 was launched as its first pilot television service on 15 February 1963"
""", although the station also aired Mandarin content at the time. Channel 5 began its first colour television signal on 1 May 1974, with the airing of ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"" and ""The Adventures of Black Beauty"" as the first colour television series. On 7 July 1974, it held its first live broadcast during the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final between West Germany and Netherlands via satellite television. On 1 November 1977, the network started broadcasting 24 hours of colour transmissions. It officially started broadcasting in stereo in 1 August 1990. Channel 5 officially began broadcasting 24-hours a day"
"Channel 5 was ""Late Night News"". In 1945, the news department of Channel 5 rebranded its newscast as ""TV5 Late Report"", and rebranded as ""TV5 24 Hours"" from 1962 to March 10, 1967. The station is home to one of America's longest-running primetime local newscasts: WNYW (as WNEW-TV) first premiered its 10 p.m. newscast – the first primetime newscast in the New York market – on March 13, 1967. Each night, the newscast (originally known as ""The 10 O'Clock News"" until 2001) was preceded by the simple, but now-famous announcement: ""It's 10 p.m., Do you know where your children are?"","
"Channel 5's morning schedules consisted mainly of American imports such as the soaps ""The Bold and the Beautiful"" and ""Sunset Beach"". Between 1998 and 2003, Gloria Hunniford hosted ""Open House with Gloria Hunniford"", an afternoon chat and lifestyle magazine show featuring interviews, cookery and consumer advice. On 2 June 2003, Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin joined the channel to host the morning talk show ""The Terry and Gaby Show"", which lasted only ten months, as it could not compete with ITV's ""This Morning"". In September 2004, Trisha Goddard left ITV Anglia to join Channel 5 in a new programme titled"
"including S4C) terrestrial channel with half-an-hour of previews. The rest of the Channel 5 launch night schedule, along with the official viewing figures, was as follows: Overall, an estimated 2,490,000 tuned in to see Britain's fifth free network launch, a figure higher than that achieved by launch of Channel 4, fourteen and a half years earlier. On 16 September 2002, Channel 5 re-branded to Five, in a multimillion-pound project directed by Trevor Beattie. The channel's director of marketing at the time, David Pullen, said: On 27 February 2004, it was reported that Five and Channel 4 were discussing a possible"
"Channel 5 (UK) programming Channel 5 airs a wide variety of programming that covers various genres and themes. Launched in 1997, the channel has always been seen to have less distinctive programming than their other terrestrial rivals at the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The channel is notable for imported programming and is also notable for securing the rights to ""Home and Away"" in 2001, which helped boost early evening viewing figures for the channel, and since 2002, the broadcaster has pursued an aggressive acquisition strategy, and has screened several of the highest-rating American dramas, including all four ""CSI"" series,"
"the first series) between 9 May and 26 May 2005. The winner of the show by viewer's votes was Keith Harris and Orville the duck. The celebrities that took part were (in order of finishing position): The show's first episode managed 1.16 million viewers for Five, and overall, the first series was a success for the Channel, managing an average of 1.4 million viewers in its 10pm nightly timeslot. The first series received an increase in viewers thanks to the incident involving Rebecca Loos, and for the series one finale scored a peak of nearly 2.3 million viewers, and a"
"all three ""NCIS"" series, the first three ""Law & Order"" series, (with the first two—""Law & Order"" and """"—later moving to 5USA), ""The Mentalist"", ""Grey's Anatomy"" (later moved to Sky Living), ""House"" (later moved to Sky 1) and ""Prison Break"" (later moved to Sky 1). The channel also poached talk show host Trisha Goddard from ITV to shore up its daytime schedule and ""Neighbours"" from the BBC after a bidding war with other broadcasters. Channel 5, as a British public service broadcaster, are required to broadcast a wide variety of programming. As opposed to Channel 4, whose programming remit targets"
"on 29 September 1995. The high-definition feed of Channel 5 was launched as HD5 on 1 January 2007. It was specifically created for major events, such as the National Day Parade and matches from the national football team. During its first years, HD5's programming was mainly originally produced in standard definition at , so it was upscaled and aired with pillarbox. The channel's operating hours were extended to 24 hours in the duration of the 2012 Summer Olympics to provide extra daily coverage of those events. In 1 December 2013, another HD feed of the channel was launched as a"
"part of an overall re-branding of Channel 5's networks following their acquisition by Viacom, the channel was re-branded as 5Star. The launch of Five Life was at the time ranked as the worst received multichannel launch for a terrestrial broadcaster, only managing to achieve a primetime share of 0.21%. Following the channel's relaunch as Fiver in 2008, the all-day share for the channel has been between 0.5–0.6%. The highest rated series airing on the channel are ""Home & Away"", ""Neighbours"" and the weeknight showings of primetime movies. The highest rating for the channel is held by ""Big Brother: Live from"
"Channel 5 (UK) Channel 5 is a British free-to-air television network. It was launched in 1997, and was the fifth national terrestrial analogue network in the United Kingdom after BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, and Channel 4. It is generally the fifth-placed network in the country in audience share, and has been since its inception. The station was branded as Five between 2002 and 2011, when it was owned by the RTL Group. Richard Desmond purchased the station from RTL on 23 July 2010, announcing plans to invest more money in programming and return to the name Channel 5 with"
"the 2000s, changes were made to address this problem. The level of adult entertainment was scaled back, and reality shows such as ""Naked Jungle"" and ""The Mole"" proved popular. However, other reality shows such as ""Touch the Truck"" and ""Jailbreak"" were less successful. The channel attracted some controversy for its reality series ""The Farm"" in 2004 and 2005. The show, which revolved around celebrities working on a farm, saw Rebecca Loos masturbating a pig in order to collect semen. Channel 5 (UK) programming Channel 5 airs a wide variety of programming that covers various genres and themes. Launched in 1997,"
"5"" logo borrowed from its new sister stations, KPHO-TV in Phoenix; WNEM-TV in Bay City, Michigan; KCTV in Kansas City, Missouri; and WTVH in Syracuse, New York. Channel 5 remained an independent station until October 9, 1986, when it became one of the charter affiliates of the newly launched Fox network. However, by the time Fox expanded its programming from late nights into evenings in April 1987, network primetime programming initially ran only two days a week, so KVVU continued to be essentially programmed as an independent station. In the 1980s, more talk shows were added to the schedule and"
"Radio 5 and replace the old service's educational and children's programmes with a new news service, whilst retaining the sports programmes. BBC Radio 5 Live began its 24-hour service at 5am on Monday 28 March 1994. The first voice on air, Jane Garvey, later went on to co-present the breakfast and drive-time shows with Peter Allen. ""The Times"" described the launch as ""slipp[ing] smoothly and confidently into a routine of informative banter"" and ""The Scotsman"" as ""professionalism at its slickest"". The news of the first day was dominated by the fatal stabbing at Hall Garth School in Cleveland, the first"
"""Love My Way"", ""Windfall"", ""Angela's Eyes"", and a weekday double-bill of the chat show ""Trisha Goddard"". On 16 October 2006, a day following the channel's launch, Australian soap opera ""Home and Away"" began airing from episode 4212 (Series 19). New episodes are shown Monday to Friday in a 'First Look' screening with episodes following the Channel 5 airing. Repeats of popular female-skewing dramas, both nationally and internationally produced, were soon acquired. Following the channel's launch, a time-shift version of the channel was launched in summer 2007. Five Life relaunched as Fiver in 2008 while still targeting female audiences, the channel"
"The 5 Search The 5 Search premiered on MediaCorp Channel 5 on 4 January 2015. It is a Singaporean reality-acting-hosting competition programme that finds the next face of the broadcasting channel, Channel 5. The judges are actress and Dim Sum Dollies member Selena Tan, actor Tay Ping Hui and host Bryan Wong. Class 95FM radio personality Jean Danker was employed as the host of the show. Each week, there would be two segments of competition – one with regards to acting, and another for hosting – which all comes with a particular theme. The contestants on the show are required"
"the broadcaster rethinking the new channel's strategy, look and potentially changing the name. The new channel was launched as 5Select on 13 February 2018. The original Channel 5 logo was a numeric ""5"" within a circle, sometimes accompanied by ""candy stripes"" of five colours (an idea based around the colour bars used by vision engineers to monitor picture output). Between 1997 and 2002, Channel 5 was the only UK terrestrial channel to display a digital on-screen graphic (DOG) in the top left-hand corner. On some programmes in the channel's early years, commercial breaks were introduced by an ""end of part"
"the House"", when it received just over one million viewers and an audience share of over five percent in 2013. 5Star 5Star is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Viacom. It is a sister channel of Channel 5, 5Spike, 5USA and 5Select. It originally launched as the female-oriented Five Life on 15 October 2006, and was rebranded as Fiver on 28 April 2008 with a revised version of the same concept. The channel later re-branded as 5* on 7 March 2011, and later to its current name on 11 February 2016. The channel was intended to be a female-oriented"
"Babylon 5 Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. After the successful airing of a test pilot movie on February 22, 1993, """", in May 1993 Warner Bros. commissioned the series for production as part of its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN). The first season premiered in the US on January 26, 1994, and the series ultimately ran for the intended five seasons. Describing it as having ""always been conceived as, fundamentally, a"
"presented by Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan. Makeover and property shows have declined in Channel 5's schedules but former series such as ""House Doctor"" and ""Housebusters"" are often repeated in the daytime and early morning schedules. In 2011, the channel launched new makeover programmes ""Garden ER"" and ""Superior Homes with Kelly Hoppen"". In September 2011, a new cookery show with a focus on healthy eating was launched, ""Real Food Family Cook Off"" sponsored by Tesco. In 2012, Channel 5 introduced property show ""Half Built House"", which was fronted by property guru Sian Astley, and focused on Astley rescuing homes that"
"shown on Channel 5 On 29 April 2013, Channel 5 announced that they had acquired the rights to air ""Wentworth Prison"". The show is a re-imagining of the classic cult drama ""Prisoner: Cell Block H"", a soap that they had shown re-runs of at the turn of the century. The first season premiered under the title ""Wentworth Prison"" on 28 August 2013, airing Wednesday nights at 22:00. After strong ratings, Channel 5 purchased the second season and set a premiere date for 3 September 2014, where the show aired again on Wednesday nights at 22:00. On 4 January 2014, Channel"
"hired a fan to take over the site and move it to its own domain name, and to oversee the ""Keyword B5"" area on America Online. The pilot film, """", premiered on February 22, 1993, and the regular series initially aired from January 26, 1994 through November 25, 1998, first on the short-lived Prime Time Entertainment Network, then in first-run syndication. The fifth season aired on cable network TNT. The show aired every week in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 without a break; as a result the last four or five episodes of the early seasons were shown in"
"and the third longest-running Canadian television program. It was launched as W5 in 1966 just after the demise of CBC Television's ""This Hour Has Seven Days"", at a time when the CTV network was on the brink of bankruptcy. The program's magazine format is considered an inspiration for a number of similar programs, including the American program ""60 Minutes"" which premiered two years later. The program's first executive producer and host was Peter Reilly. He quit only a few weeks into the first season of W5, in a dispute with John Bassett, who owned the CTV network's biggest station, CFTO"
"Sky 5 Sky 5 is a television channel in New Zealand available on Sky Television. The channel's shows are a variety of international shows, for example , The Simpsons, WWE, The Flash, Supergirl, Arrow, Tour of Duty and Pawn Stars. The channel was started in November 1994 as Orange on Sky UHF pre-set channel 7. Orange broadcast during prime-time and during 1995 Juice TV began broadcasting overnight when Orange went off the air. In 1997, Cartoon Network began broadcasting between 6am and 4:30pm while Orange was not broadcasting. Orange changed its name to Sky 1 in 1998 and the channel"
"of the station's launch presenting team) and pre-recorded sketches from comedians Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson (consisting of the two larking about in the studio amid the strains of ""Sailing By"", and Trevor suddenly being cut off while he was reading his so-called ""Ode to Radio 5""). The official first programme was ""Take Five"", a pre-recorded programme by Bruno Brookes. Many saw the station as broadcasting programming the other four main BBC stations did not want, reflected in a speech by Jenny Abramsky, News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media 2002 at Exeter College, Oxford University: ""The sports output from"
"with the team yet to discuss these sorts of details"". The day after, Desmond's ""Daily Express"" newspaper noted that the channel's name was to change: ""From today the rather vague 'Five' (Five what? Days of the week? Fingers?) reverts to the much more informative Channel 5"". On 11 August 2010, Desmond confirmed the restoration of the original name used from 1997–2002. The restoration was revealed onscreen on 14 February 2011. The relaunch also saw investment in a range of new programming with the debut of the (now-cancelled) nightly entertainment show ""OK! TV"". Audience figures for the relaunch were boosted with"
"""Body of Proof"", ""Once Upon a Time"", ""Dallas"" and ""Under the Dome"". In July 2014, Channel 5 announced plans to open up its production arm and allow it to create shows for other channels, following the new policies of the BBC and ITV Studios. Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited was licensed by the UK Government in 1995 after a bidding process that started in 1993 and lasted throughout 1994. The initial round of bidders, which included a network of city-TV stations planned by Thames Television and the Italian politician and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi (who a few months later retired his"