TV5 (Finnish TV channel)

TV5 (TV Five) is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by SBS Discovery Media. The channel launched in March 2004 but it was replaced by The Voice TV Finland in November 2004. It started operating again in September 2008 on the same channel as The Voice. It transmitted every day from 6 pm to 1 am. In the fall of 2010, TV5 started using the same logo, identity, graphics, and branding as Kanal 5, a channel in Sweden also owned by SBS Discovery. TV5 and The Voice became separate channels on April 1, 2011. After that TV5 became the fastest growing channel, by viewers, in Finland in 2011.

TV5
Launched12 March 2004 (relaunched 10 September 2008)
Owned byDiscovery Networks Finland
(Discovery Communications)
Picture format16:9
Audience share2.6% (2011, [1])
SloganYllättävän hauska
(Surprisingly fun)
CountryFinland
Broadcast area90,4% of Finland
HeadquartersHelsinki, Finland
Formerly calledVIISI
(March 2004 - November 2004)
TV Viisi
(September 2008 - August 2011)
Sister channel(s)Kutonen
Frii
TLC (Finland)
Availability
Terrestrial
Digita-
DNA-
Satellite
Canal Digital-
Cable
DNA-
Elisa-
Telia-
Lumotv-
Anvia-
IPTV
Maxivision-
Elisa-

Programming

TV5 airs feature films, series and documentaries.

gollark: OH NOHE HAS BEEN ASSIMILATED BY TWITTER
gollark: Have you *seen* it? Looked at anything on it?
gollark: > well they have no right to complain because half of twitter is porn.> i dont use twitter
gollark: Oh, okay, in that case it'll probably work poorly on anything but the screensize you tested it on.
gollark: I actually trained a neural network to generate the static site generation code for osmarks.tk.

References
  1. "Results From The TV Audience Measurement". Finnpanel. Retrieved 3 February 2012.


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