| Canale 5
Canale 5 +1 Canale 5 HD |
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| Launched | September 30, 1980 |
| Owned by | Mediaset |
| Audience share | 20.33% (2008, [1]) |
| Country | Italy |
| Formerly called | TeleMilano 58 (1978-1980) |
| Sister channel(s) | La5 |
| Website | www.canale5.com |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Analogue | PAL, Normally tuned on channel 5 (not available in switched-off areas) |
| Digital | DVB-T, LCN 5, Where available |
| Satellite | |
| Analogue | Not available |
| Digital | DVB-S (scrambled in Mediaguard 2 during some events) on Hotbird |
| SKY Italia | Channel 105 |
| yes | Channel 129 |
| Cable | |
| MC Cable | Channel 205 |
| Cablecom | Channel 096 Channel 205 (digital CH-D) |
| Hot | Channel 156 |
Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978.
Much of its early content came from American television shows dubbed in Italian, a common trait on Italian television today. Mike Bongiorno, the host of Lascia o raddoppia?, was also wooed away from RAI to host an early quiz shows on TeleMilano.
Today Fininvest controls 35% of Mediaset. The logo of Canale 5 was originally formed by the number five beside a long biscione (a snake, the ancient symbol of Milan) spitting a flower. In the eighties the reptile was replaced by a bigger number leaving only a stylized head on the top with the flower. In 2000 Canale 5 launched the Italian version of the Big Brother franchise, titled Grande Fratello, the first reality show in Italy. This was the beginning of a new era of television marked by the medium of television referring to itself both as an important part of daily life and treating itself as a member of the family or a close friend, sometimes called as "auto-reference". In 2005, RIS Delitti Imperfetti was launched, an Italian fiction inspired by CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Today there are many Italian fictions and the most famous are: Carabinieri, Distretto di Polizia, RIS Delitti Imperfetti and Elisa di Rivombrosa.
In 2005 news editor Enrico Mentana was replaced by Carlo Rossella.
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