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Encyclopedia > Five Life
Five Life
Owned by Five (RTL Group)
Audience share 0.4%
(March 2007, [1])
Website [2]
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview Channel 36
Satellite
Sky Digital Channel 209
Cable
Virgin Media Channel 186
HomeChoice Channel 31

Five Life is a free-to-air television channel in the United Kingdom owned by Five. The channel launched on October 15, 2006 and is available on digital television via Freeview, Sky Digital and cable television.It's also one of two digital channels launched by Five , in order to create a multi-channel strategy , which most analogue broadcasters had already achieved. .[1] Image File history File links Fivelife. ... Launched in 1997, five is the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue television channel to launch in the United Kingdom. ... RTL Group is Europes largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. ... Freeviews retro logo Freeview is a brand name, owned by DTV Services Ltd. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... HomeChoice is a UK-based consumer Video on Demand service, provided by Video Networks Limited (VNL), based in Shepherds Bush in West London. ... Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ... Launched in 1997, five is the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue television channel to launch in the United Kingdom. ... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analog signals used by analog (traditional) TV. DTV uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set, or a... Freeviews retro logo Freeview is a brand name, owned by DTV Services Ltd. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ...


Five Life broadcasts between 6am and 11pm. The channel is targeted at a female audience. Five has announced that programming will include The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Love My Way,[2] Windfall,[3] Angela's Eyes, a weekday double-bill of Trisha Goddard and new episodes and a weekly omnibus of Home and Away.Repeats of teenage drama Dawson's Creek started showing in December of 2006. The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, is a syndicated television talk show hosted by actress/comedienne Ellen DeGeneres and distributed by Warner Brothers Television. ... Love My Way is a critically acclaimed and award winning Australian television drama series. ... Windfall is an NBC television series. ... Angelas Eyes is an American drama that premiered on July 16, 2006 on Lifetime TV. The show airs Sundays at 10pm. ... Trisha is a British chat show previously aired on ITV1 in the mornings. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Dawsons Creek Dawsons Creek was an American primetime television drama, which first aired from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003, on The WB network. ...


The channel in February,will be repeating Season 1 of US Drama Big Love before showing new episodes of Season 2. Big Love is an HBO television drama about a polygamous family, starring Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin and Amanda Seyfried. ...


During the mornings, an extended version of the kids' strand Milkshake! is broadcast. Milkshake! is a television programming block on Five, which debuted in 1997, and it is shown on weekdays and Sundays from 6a. ...


The first programme broadcast on Five Life was Inside The Priory, a documentary about The Priory clinic, at 8pm on the channel's launch day. The launch of Five Life marked the start of Five's digital multi-channel strategy designed to compete with similar strategies from its rivals Channel 4 and ITV plc. The Priory Healthcare Group is a independent provider of mental health care facilities in the United Kingdom. ... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ... ITV plc (LSE: ITV) is the British media company that operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom. ...


On 11 January 2007, it was announced that Five Life have acquired the multi-channel rights to air popular and recently axed ITV1 dramas, Bad Girls (Series 4-8) and Footballers' Wives from Spring 2007. January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... It has been suggested that Pat Kerrigan be merged into this article or section. ... Footballers Wives is a British television drama surrounding the private lives of a group of professional footballers, it aired on the ITV1 network from January 8, 2002 to July 15, 2006. ...


To add the excitement of Five Life yet again, on March 23rd 2007 Five Life won the rights to air the new popular American drama Dirt starring Courtney Cox. (Dirt) is an FX drama television series that premiered as a midseason replacement on January 2, 2007. ... Courteney Cox in Misfits of Science Courteney Cox Arquette (born June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA) is an American actress. ...

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Current Programmes

Angelas Eyes is an American drama that premiered on July 16, 2006 on Lifetime TV. The show airs Sundays at 10pm. ... Big Love is an HBO television drama about a polygamous family, starring Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin and Amanda Seyfried. ... How Not To Decorate was a television series which aired on Five in the United Kingdom in which designers Justin Ryan & Colin McAllister helped redecorate notoriously ugly or unstylish homes, in a format similar to the What Not to Wear series. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Dawsons Creek Dawsons Creek was an American primetime television drama, which first aired from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003, on The WB network. ... Footballers Wives is a British television drama surrounding the private lives of a group of professional footballers. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Love My Way is a critically acclaimed and award winning Australian television drama series. ... Milkshake! is a television programming block on Five, which debuted in 1997, and it is shown on weekdays and Sundays from 6a. ... The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, is a syndicated television talk show hosted by actress/comedienne Ellen DeGeneres and distributed by Warner Brothers Television. ... Trisha Goddard (born 23 December 1957 in Hackney, London[1], died 02 March 2007) was an English television presenter well known for morning talk show Trisha which is aired on Channel Five with the programme now entitled Trisha Goddard since its move from ITV. // She was born in London to... Windfall is an NBC television series. ...

Coming soon

It has been suggested that Pat Kerrigan be merged into this article or section. ... (Dirt) is an FX drama television series that premiered as a midseason replacement on January 2, 2007. ...

References

  1. ^ Five (05 June 2006). Five unveils two new channels. Press release. Retrieved on 2006-10-12.
  2. ^ October launch date for Five's digital channels. MediaWeek. Retrieved on 2006-10-12.
  3. ^ [http://www.five.tv/media/pdf/11896740.pdf five autumn highlights 2006]. Retrieved on 2006-10-12.

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External links

  • Five Life at five.tv
  • Official Five Press Release 25 August 2006
  • Digital Spy Article


 
 

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