Green light for new Five channel

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Five has been granted a licence for a second channel, the UK television regulator Ofcom has confirmed.
The network is planning to launch its first satellite and cable venture, general entertainment channel Five.2.

According to industry paper Broadcast, Five has secured funding from parent firm RTL for its expansion which will include children's programming.

Five is also reportedly bidding for a slot for its new channel on the free-to-watch digital service Freeview.

Five's main channel is already available to Freeview viewers.

The major networks have been expanding their digital offerings in recent months.

ITV has launched a new male-targeted channel ITV4 and is planning a new children's channel, while Channel 4 has started entertainment-based More4.

Last month Sky Three, which features programmes already seen on Sky One as well as original travel and lifestyle shows, replaced Sky Travel on Freeview.

Source: BBC

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Analoguesat

I think we know the test for this one .

C5 have been running a test on:

12.304 H 27500 3/4 tagged as "9343"

Its NOT fta, but has been running parallel to 105 for a couple of weeks, although its was reported showing different programming for a while yesterday.

ax197

FEC is 2/3

Analoguesat

Oops so it is - Im used to typing 3/4 from 19E and 13E

Analoguesat

Five are reported to have lost the bidding war for the new slot on FreeView DTT. Channel 4 outbid them by paying £10million/year for the 18 hours a day slot. Five will now be launching the DTT five.2 on spare Top Up TV capacity (They invested heavily into TUTV last week.)

4 eill be putting More 4+1 onto DTT in the short term, and replacing it with new channel "C4US"** early next year.

** unofficial name for the new channel launching next year to showcase their American series.

Analoguesat

Satellite channel Five.3 appeared on the Ofcom licence list yesterday