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| Launched | 16 October 2006 |
| Owned by | Channel 5 Broadcasting (RTL Group) |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV 16:9, 4:3) |
| Audience share | 0.5% (0.1% for +1) (March 2008, [1]) |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Sister channel(s) | Five Fiver |
| Timeshift service | Five US +1 |
| Website | www.five.tv/us |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview | Channel 35 |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 174 Channel 175 (+1) |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 150 |
| IPTV over ADSL | |
| Tiscali TV | Channel 30 |
Five US is a free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by Five, launched on 16 October 2006. It was the second digital channel to be launched by Five as part of their multi-channel strategy, the first being Fiver.[1] Five US concentrates on showing imported movies and programmes from the United States, originally broadcast from 4:00 pm to 1:00 am, extending its hours starting at 12 noon in June 2007. The channel changes its programme slots and shows from time to time. Five US is shown on Freeview, IPTV, digital cable and Sky (including the Freesat from Sky service). It is not currently available on Freesat, but Five state on their website that they are "working on it".[2] Many of the series shown on the channel, particularly older ones, are edited for time to make way for increased advertising demands.[citation needed]
The channel's highest ratings to date were on 12 February 2008 for the second part of the CSI/Without a Trace crossover. The show averaged 2.58m viewers between 10:00 pm and 11:00 pm, equating to a multichannel share of 13.9%. Those numbers made the show the most-watched multichannel programme in its slot - beating every other channel (digital and analogue) aside from BBC One, and is currently one of the highest ratings for a multichannel in the United Kingdom.
British comedian Russell Kane is the 'face of the channel', presenting short clips that occur in between some programmes which act as space fillers to comply with advertising regulations in the UK (UK regulation allows fewer minutes of advertising than in the US).
Current ident music (as of 11 November 2007) is "The Dress Looks Nice On You" and "Jacksonville" by Sufjan Stevens.
On August 28, 2007, Five US launched a timeshift channel named Five US +1 available on Sky Digital.[3]
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Programming
Current shows
- 30 Rock
- Californication
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- CSI: Miami
- CSI: NY
- David Beckham's Soccer USA
- d!rt
- The Fall Guy
- IndyCar Series
- Happy Days
- House MD
- Killer Instinct
- Mission: Impossible
- NASCAR
- NBA
- NFL including Super Bowl
- NHRA Powerade Drag Series
- The Nine
- NUMB3RS
- Shark
- Vanished
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Drew Carey US version)
- Whacked Out Sports
Former shows
- Conviction - Now on The Hallmark Channel
- Everybody Hates Chris - Now on Fiver
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King - Now on The Sci Fi Channel
- Pros vs Joes
- Pimp My Ride (uk version) - Now on TMF
- Joey - Now on Fiver
- Sex and the City - Now on Fiver
Coming soon
- K-Ville[4]
- Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit & Law & Order: Criminal Intent[5]
- The Mentalist
References
- ^ "five launches five US and five Life". five (25 August 2006).
- ^ "Freesat / freesat / five.tv". Retrieved on 2008-12-02.
- ^ Joanne Oatts (05 July 2007). "Five launches +1 services". Digital Spy.
- ^ Leigh Holmwood (31 July 2007). "Five snaps up hurricane aftermath drama". MediaGuardian.
- ^ Neil Wilkes (16 April 2007). "Five hangs on to key acquisitions". Digital Spy.
External links
- Five US at five.tv
- Initial press release
- Official Five Press Release 25 August 2006
- Digital Spy Article
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