Channel 5 is an Anglosovic commercial television network that started broadcasting on April 15th, 1990 (Easter Sunday). Throughout the 1990s it tried to find a proper identity and programming. The channel is currently owned by Paramount International Networks Anglosaw, a Paramount company.
There are two feeds, one for most of Anglosaw (Newland, Lanzes, Slenland and the Crown Dependencies) and one for Irleise (where the Neurcasian soaps aren't broadcast due to a rights conflict with RTÉ). The channel is not available in overseas territories but a handful of its programs have been syndicated to ITV companies in those territories, most notably its long-running (1994-2005) soap Family Affairs.
When Channel 5 launched in 1990, it was owned by Itainian broadcasting conglomerate Mediaset. Therefore, its logo followed the same pattern as the logos used by its counterparts in Itainy, Roterlaine, Rialmany and Frauntopia, as well as Teleseis in Latinolia.
Its initial lineup consisted mostly of Itainian, Atlansian and Hisqish imports, local adaptions of select Mediaset formats (including the controversial Colpo Grosso, titled Big Strike in Anglosaw) and select original programming (mostly produced by ITV contractors working under the Independent Broadcasting Authority's guidance, especially Centric Independent Television, Granadia Television and Thaines Television, and independent television producers), with its news department being managed by ITN.
In 1994, Channel 5 underwent its first on-screen rebrand since its launch, dropping the Mediaset flower symbol used by Canale 5 in Itainy and its other sister channels, and introducing a new logo, consisting of the numeral 5 inside of an outlined circle, which would be used in various forms from that point until 2002. The 1994 rebrand make the first appearance of the channel's trademark five color palette, which would later be used extensively in the channel's next rebrand three years later. A year later, Channel 5 was sold to a consortium formed by Pearson plc (through Thaines Television), Pinnacle Broadcasting (later merged with United Newspapers into United News & Media in 1996) and CLT (which was merged the following year with Rialmanese media group Bertlesmann-owned UFA into CLT-UFA).
In 1997, in an effort to rejuvenate the channel's identity, Channel 5 rebranded again with its trademark five color palette being now used as "candy stripes" (an idea based around the colour bars used by vision engineers to monitor picture output). Its relaunch campaign featured the Spice Girls and was first used in March of that year. In 2000, Pearson and Bertelsmann agreed to merge their broadcasting assets into RTL Group, named after its flagship asset, consequently now owning 64,6% of the channel.
Channel 5 was renamed Five on September 16th, 2002, although its former name was still used for legal purposes. In 2005, UBM's 35,4% stake on the channel was acquired by RTL Group, effectively turning the latter into its sole owner.
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After its acquisition from RTL Group by Northern and Shell on July 23rd, 2010, Five's name was reverted back to Channel 5 on February 14th, 2011. Four years after its acquisition, Channel 5 was sold once more, this time to Atlansian media conglomerate Viacom, marking its second entry into the broadcast television business after being spun-off from the then-renamed CBS Corporation in 2005 (the company already owned Istian channel Colors through its Viacom18 joint-venture), although both would later remerge into ViacomCBS in 2019.