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Kanal 5
Launched	1989
Owned by	ProSiebenSat.1 Media
Audience share	8.3 % (Jun '07, [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 TV Access	Channel 5
Satellite
Canal Digital
Cable
Com Hem	Channel 5

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. ^[2]

On March 8, 1989, the 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 programmmes in the channel's history. ^[3]

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

• Seinfeld
• The O.C.
• Desperate Housewives
• Rome
• Battlestar Galactica (reimagining)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• CSI: Miami
• CSI: New York
• Criminal Minds
• Cold Case
• Law & Order: SVU
• Law & Order: CI
• Law & Order: TbJ
• Friends
• Las Vegas
• Joey
• Frasier
• Spin City
• Gilmore Girls
• 7th Heaven
• One Tree Hill
• Ugly Betty
• The Amazing Race
• Big Brother
• Kyle XY
• Brothers & Sisters
• Grey's Anatomy
• Trinny & Susannah Undress
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Psych

1. ^ MMS - Månadsrapport Juni 2006, Mediamätning i Skandinavien, <http://www.mms.se/manrapp/M%E5nadsrapport_2007-06.xls>
2. ^ TV-tittandet 2006, årsrapport, Mediamätning i Skandinavien, <http://www.mms.se/arsrapp/%C5rsrapport%202006.pdf>
3. ^ MMS Hottop, http://www.mms.se/

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