Kanal 5 (Sweden)

Kanal 5
Launched	1989
Owned by	ProSiebenSat.1 Media
Audience share	7.9% (2008, [1])
Slogan	Roligare TV
Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	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.

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 slogan is "Roligare TV" ("More Entertaining 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.^[2]

History

On 8 March 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 27 March 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 and 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 4 February 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 15 December 2004, and attracted 965,000 viewers, one of the highest rated programmes in the channel's history.^[3]

Programming

Swedish programmes

• Boston Tea Party
• Fråga Olle
• Outsiders
• Roomservice
• So You Think You Can Dance Sweden
• Nittileaks
• Vakna med The Voice
• Wipeout

Imported programming

• 7th Heaven
• Aliens in America
• America's Funniest Home Videos
• Battlestar Galactica
• Beyond the Break
• Brothers & Sisters
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Charmed
• Cold Case
• Cougar Town
• Criminal Minds
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• CSI: Miami
• CSI: New York
• Desperate Housewives
• Diagnosis: Murder
• Dirty Sexy Money
• Ellen
• Eleventh Hour
• Entertainment Now
• Everwood
• Extreme Makeover
• Falcon Crest
• Flashpoint
• Friday Night Lights
• Frasier
• Freddie
• Friends
• Fringe
• Gary Unmarried
• Gilmore Girls
• Girls of the Playboy Mansion
• Gossip Girl
• Greek
• Grey's Anatomy
• Hellcats
• High School Reunion
• Home and away
• Human Target
• Invasion
• Jail
• Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Joey
• Justice
• Kevin Hill
• Keeping Up with the Kardashians
• Kim Possible
• Kyle XY
• Las Vegas
• Last Man Standing
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury
• Lewis
• Lizzie McGuire
• MacGyver
• Mad Men
• Magnum, P.I.
• McLeod's Daughters
• Mr. Bean
• Nikita
• No Ordinary Family
• Off the Map
• One Tree Hill
• Pineapple Dance Studios
• Privileged
• Psych
• Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
• Reaper
• Rizzoli & Isles
• Rome
• Rules of Engagement
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Saturday Night Live
• Seinfeld
• Shear Genius
• Skins
• Sonny with a Chance
• Supernatural
• The Bachelor
• The Bachelorette
• The Big Bang Theory
• The Biggest Loser
• The Biggest Loser Australia
• The Buried Life
• The Catherine Tate Show
• The Cleveland Show
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• The F Word
• The Forgotten
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• The Jay Leno Show
• The Life & Times of Tim
• The Middle
• The New Adventures of Old Christine
• The O.C.
• The Office
• The Real Housewives of New York City
• The Starter Wife
• Top Gear
• Traveler
• Ugly Betty
• Wizards of Waverly Place

References

1. ^ Årsrapport 2008, Mediamätning i Skandinavien, http://mms.se/_dokument/rapporter/ar/%C3%85rsrapport%202008.pdf 
2. ^ (PDF) TV-tittandet 2006, årsrapport, Mediamätning i Skandinavien, http://www.mms.se/arsrapp/%C5rsrapport%202006.pdf 
3. ^ MMS Hottop, http://www.mms.se/

External links

• Official site (Swedish)
• Kanal 5 Play

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