Kanal 5 (Sweden)

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Kanal 5
Launched 1989
Owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media
Audience share 9.0 % (March '08, )
Slogan Roligare TV
Country Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Broadcast area Flag of Sweden Sweden
Formerly called Nordic Channel 1989-1991
TV5 1991
TV5 Nordic 1991-1994
Femman 1994-1996
Kanal 5 1996-present
Website http://www.kanal5.se/
Availability
Terrestrial
Boxer Channel 5
Satellite
Canal Digital
Cable
Com Hem Channel 5
Swedish headquarters for Kanal 5 in Stockholm.
Swedish headquarters for Kanal 5 in Stockholm.

Kanal 5 (English: Channel 5) is a Swedish commercial television channel established in 1989. It is owned by the media corporation ProSiebenSat.1 Media.

After a troublesome 1990s, Kanal 5 launched new strategies in the early 2000s that established it as a popular entertainment channel targeting young people. The channel's motto is "Roligare TV" ("Funnier TV") and it only broadcasts entertainment, such as series, movies, reality series and infotainment documentaries. In 2006, the channel was the most popular channel among Swedes aged 15-24.[1]

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[edit] History

On March 8, 1989, business man Matts Carlgren announced that he intended to start a new commercial television channel, as Jan Stenbeck had done with TV3. The channel was called Nordic Channel and launched on March 27, 1989.

The channel made heavy losses during its first years. In 1991, it was sold to Scandinavian Broadcasting System, headed by Harry E. Sloan, who had already bought Kanal 2 in Copenhagen and TV Norge in Norway. He renamed the channel TV5, but the French language TV5 complained so the channel had to be called TV5 Nordic. This was still in the early years of cable television and French TV5 still had widespread distribution in Swedish cable networks. TV5 Nordic finally had to drop its name in 1994, and became known as Femman ("The Five"). On February 4, 1996, the channel was named Kanal 5.

The Swedish version of Big Brother was launched in 2000 and ran for six seasons. Kanal 5 also had the rights for the American sitcom Friends. The last episode was broadcast on December 15, 2004, and attracted 965,000 viewers, one of the highest rated programmes in the channel's history.[2]

[edit] Programmes

The channel is the home of a lot of popular shows:

[edit] Swedish

[edit] American & British

[edit] References

  1. ^ TV-tittandet 2006, årsrapport, Mediamätning i Skandinavien, <http://www.mms.se/arsrapp/%C5rsrapport%202006.pdf> 
  2. ^ MMS Hottop, http://www.mms.se/

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