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Originally Posted by Alf
Channel 5 was 25 years old today.
It only seems like yesterday when those Spice Girls were launching it.
Fairly sure you got a snowy picture when it first launched. And there was that karaoke game show on early Saturday evenings.
Simpler times.
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Yes
Viacom the USA owners
have changed the ownership again
to one of their Sub Companies
Owner : Paramount Networks UK & Australia
They were Best under King Desmond
[Desmond takeover (2011)
Five was taken over by Richard Desmond's publishing group Northern & Shell on 23 July 2010 for £103.5 million.[25][26][27] Desmond pledged to top up the broadcaster's total budget to about £1.5bn over the next five years, including new investment of £50m to £100m a year to boost programming and the equivalent of £20m promoting the channel and its shows in a marketing campaign in Northern & Shell publications.]
He was more Bold
and brought Big Brother back
to UK TV.
Getting Millions more new people watching Ch5.
He sold Ch5UK
to USA Viacom making a Profit in 2014
[On 1 May 2014, Desmond agreed to sell
Channel 5 to Viacom for £450 million (US$759 million).]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channe...ish_TV_channel)
The one thing they need to Improve
is to make 5USA channel into 5 USA HD
as most of the content on that channel was recorded in HD