Kanal 5 (Swedish TV channel)

Kanal 5
Country	Sweden
Broadcast area	Sweden
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA; (Warner Bros. Discovery)
Sister channels	Kanal 9; Kanal 11; Discovery Channel (Swedish); TLC (Swedish)
History
Launched	27 March 1989
Former names	Nordic Channel (1989–1991); TV5 (1991); TV5 Nordic (1991–1994); Femman (1994–1996)
Links
Website	www.discoveryplus.com/se/channel/kanal-5
Availability
Terrestrial
Boxer	Channel 5

Kanal 5 (Channel 5) is a Swedish television channel that was launched in 1989. It is owned by the US-based media company Warner Bros. Discovery, changing its ownership from ProSiebenSat.1 Media in April 2013.

After a troublesome 1990s, Kanal 5 launched new strategies in the early 2000s (decade) 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.^[1]

History

On 8 March 1989, businessman 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.^[2] Kanal 5 is also involved in broadcasting the Olympic Games alongside sister channels Kanal 9 and Eurosport starting with PyeongChang 2018.

Logos

Kanal 5 second logo from 2000 to 2024

Programming

Swedish shows

Imported series, miniseries and children's shows

7th Heaven
Airline
Aliens in America
America's Funniest Home Videos
Balls of Steel
Battlestar Galactica
Beyond the Break
Body of Proof
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
Brothers & Sisters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Charmed
Cold Case
Cougar Town
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Denver, the Last Dinosaur
Desperate Housewives
Diagnosis: Murder
Dirty Sexy Money
Ellen
Eleventh Hour
ER
Everwood
Extreme Makeover
Falcon Crest
Fashion House
Flashpoint
Footballers' Wives
Friday Night Lights
Frasier
Freddie
Friends
Fringe
Full House
Gary Unmarried
GCB
Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl
Greek
Grey's Anatomy
Happy Endings
Hart of Dixie
Hellcats
High School Reunion
Histeria!
Home and Away
How to Get Away with Murder
Human Target
Invasion
Jail
Jerseylicious
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Joey
Justice
Kevin Hill
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Kim Possible
Kyle XY
Ladette to Lady
Las Vegas
Last Man Standing
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Lewis
Live from Abbey Road
Lizzie McGuire
MacGyver
Mad Men
Magnum, P.I.
McLeod's Daughters
Mike & Molly
Missing
Mr. Bean
Nikita
Nip/Tuck
No Ordinary Family
Off the Map
Oggy and the Cockroaches^[3]
Once Upon a Time
One Tree Hill
Pineapple Dance Studios
Prime Suspect
Privileged
Providence
Psych
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Reaper
Rizzoli & Isles
Rome
Rules of Engagement
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Saturday Night Live
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Seinfeld
Shear Genius
Skins
Sonny with a Chance
Supernatural
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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
The River
The Simpsons
The Starter Wife
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
The War at Home
The X-Files
Third Watch
Top Gear
Traveler
Trinny & Susannah Undress...
Two and a Half Men
Ugly Betty
What Not to Wear
Wipeout
Wizards of Waverly Place

References

^ TV-tittandet 2006, årsrapport (PDF). Mediamätning i Skandinavien.
^ MMS Hottop, "Mediamätning i Skandinavien". Archived from the original on December 12, 2006. Retrieved December 11, 2006.
^ "Oggy and the Cockroaches the Ghost Hunter". YouTube.

External links

[1] TV-tittandet 2006, årsrapport (PDF). Mediamätning i Skandinavien.

[2] MMS Hottop, "Mediamätning i Skandinavien". Archived from the original on December 12, 2006. Retrieved December 11, 2006.

[3] "Oggy and the Cockroaches the Ghost Hunter". YouTube.

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