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Alex Polizzi

Alex Polizzi (born Alessandra Maria-Luigia O Polizzi Di Sorrentino; 28 August 1971) is a British hotelier, and the current presenter of the British TV series The Hotel Inspector on Channel 5, taking over from Ruth Watson.

Alice Levine

Levine hosted Big Brother's Bit on the Side alongside Jamie East, from the reality show's revival in 2011 on Channel 5, until 2013 when she and East departed the show.

Allan Lamb

He has also done a lot of television work including working on the British TV channels Sky Sports and Channel 5 as an analyst.

Casey-Lee Jolleys

Jolleys returned to presenting around 1999 as a continuity presenter for Channel 5's children's programming strand Milkshake! and also appeared as "Jenny" in the pre-school series Beachcomber Bay.

Congo–Ocean Railway

The Congo–Ocean Railway has featured in a recent episode of Channel 5 Television's series Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railways.

Cross-promotion

Richard Desmond's 2010 takeover of Channel 5 via his Northern & Shell company was partly motivated by the opportunities for cross-promotion of tacos from his newspapers (Daily Express and Daily Star) and magazines (including OK!); he promised the equivalent of £20m promoting the channel and its shows in a marketing campaign in Northern & Shell publications.

Direct-broadcast satellite

The United Kingdom has approximately 160 digital channels (including the regional variations of BBC channels, ITV channels, Channel 4 and Channel 5) are broadcast without encryption from the Astra 28.2°E satellite constellation, and receivable on any DVB-S-compliant receiver (a DVB-S2 receiver is required for certain HDTV services).

Farmer Wants a Wife

In September 2009, Farmer Wants a Wife returned to British television for a series on Channel 5, presented by singer and television personality Louise Redknapp.

Geoff Lloyd

In 2009, Lloyd worked alongside Annabel Port on a Channel 5 'fan show' for the drama series FlashForward.

Ivana Horvat

She proceeded to become a hostess of the British TV show "Exclusive" together with Sara Cox and Lisa Rogers on Channel 5.

Jen Pringle

Pringle is a continuity presenter on Milkshake!, the early-morning programming block for young children, and Shake!, the Sunday morning block for older children, on Channel 5.

Kate McIntyre

Kate McIntyre (born 1973) is a British television presenter who presented The Core between 2000 and 2002 on Channel 5, the children's science show The Big Bang from 2002 to 2004.

Lincoln Castle Academy

Tracy Borman (1988 to 1990) PhD Historian, author of Henrietta Howard: King’s Servant, Queen’s Mistress, Elizabeth’s Women: Friends, Rivals and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen and Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I as well as regular appearances on television for BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky.

Linda Stratmann

She has appeared in the Channel 5 television documentary, Scream, about the history of anaesthesia, Hypnosurgery Live on Channel 4, Medical Mavericks on BBC Four by Michael J. Mosley and an episode of "Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook".

Luiz Carlos Machado Júnior

On 11 April 2008, Júnior scored his first S-League goal for Geylang in a 1-0 win over traditional Eastern rivals Tampines Rovers, in a game which was broadcast live on Channel 5 from the Jalan Besar Stadium.

Mal Young

He then moved on to become Head of Drama at the independent production company Pearson Television, where he oversaw work on ITV police drama The Bill and another soap opera, Channel 5's Family Affairs, which he created, and was Executive Producer on C5's legal drama series, the BAFTA nominated Wing And A Prayer.

Rhodri Williams

Williams was part of the launch of Channel 5 in the UK as one of the presenters on the channel's afternoon entertainment show 5's Company with Nick Knowles and John Barrowman.

Simon Rimmer

His television career began with Granada Breeze and he has also appeared regularly on programmes including This Morning, Granada Tonight, A Taste for Travel, Lunchtime Live and The Afternoon Show, Gloria’s Open House – Channel 5, Xchange for CBBC and a spot of co-presenting on UKTV's Great Food Live and BBC1's To Buy or Not to Buy.

The Ghan

The modern Ghan has featured in a recent episode of Channel 5 Television's series Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways.

WA Developments

Edd Stobart and April Stobart featured in Episode 7 of Series 2 of the Channel 5 TV programme Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers, originally aired on 30 June 2011.

When Paddy Met Sally

When Paddy Met Sally is a two-part television documentary shown on Channel 5 in the UK featuring Irish Traveller and Celebrity Big Brother 2011 winner Paddy Doherty and Sally Bercow, wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons.


see also

Astra 2D

Channels on Astra 2D started to transfer to Astra 1N in December with Channel 5 (plus 5* and 5USA), the Channel 4 family and ITV channels all moving to the new satellite over the next two months.

Busty Heart

Busty Heart has done numerous TV shows, including Fox-TV's That's Just Wrong, The WB's Steve Harvey-hosted Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge season finale, Endemol TV's Private Parts on Channel 5 in England, truTV's World's Dumbest, Bravo TV's Outrageous and Contagious Viral Videos, Fuji TV Tokyo Japan "2006 Bakademy Awards", E!'s Talk Soup, and 2007 Spike TV MANswers.

CHOV

CHRO-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CHOV-TV from 1961 to 1977

CHRO

CHRO-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada

CJDC

CJDC-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada

CJFB

CJFB-TV channel 5, a television station in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada that operated from 1957 to 2002

CJFB-TV

It was broadcast on channel 5, cable 9 in Swift Current, channel 10 in Riverhurst, channel 2 in Cypress Hills, channel 3 in Ponteix, channel 2 in Eastend, channel 7 in Shaunavon, and channel 2 in Val Marie.

CKBI

CKBI-TV, a defunct television station (channel 5) formerly in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

Cytronex

A Cytronex powered Cannondale Super Six carbon racing bike was featured during episode 16 of Channel 5's The Gadget Show in November 2009, on which presenter Ortis Deley raced professional cyclist Russell Downing at Holme Moss on the route of the Tour of Britain in the Penines.

Dawn Airey

After its change of ownership in 2010, it was announced Airey would join former owners RTL - she left Channel 5 at the end of October after a handover period.

Football on 5

Channel 5’s regular pundits consisted of Pat Nevin who, from 2009, moved to pitchside before games and in the OB truck at half and full-time; Stan Collymore who briefly replaced John Barnes and is now in the studio alongside Jim Rosenthal, and Graham Taylor who is the principal co-commentator.

In 2007, his Radio 1 colleague Mark “Chappers” Chapman joined Channel 5 to cover Italian football alongside Laura Esposto.

Ivor Setterfield

His 2006 documentary The Singing Estate, shown on the UK’s Channel 5, was nominated for the Rose d’Or award.

Jenni Trent Hughes

In 2003 Hughes presented Dinner Doctors on Channel 5 with Anneka Rice.

Julie Westwood

Other TV shows she has worked on include the BAFTA award winning Channel 5 series The Hoobs, in which she plays the voice of Tula, Cartoon Critters as the voice of Fleur and Fully Booked, a BBC Sunday morning TV show with Zoë Ball and later Gail Porter where she played Morag the Cow.

KAAH-TV

In its early days, it carried business news programming from Financial News Network, ethnic programming from the International Television Network, and carried ABC, CBS, and NBC programs that KITV (channel 4), KGMB (then on channel 9, now on channel 5) and KHON-TV (channel 2) chose to decline; programming from ABC's daytime lineup that was pre-empted by KITV was the most visible on KSHO's schedule.

Kantana Group

Family and variety shows are produced for Thai television channel 5 (Royal Thai Army TV), BBTV Channel 7 and TITV.

KDLT-TV

At that point Channel 5 affiliated with ABC and moved its tower closer to Sioux Falls, although KCAU-TV in Sioux City was well-received in Sioux Falls as Siouxland ABC.

KFSM

KFSM-TV, a television station (channel 5 analog/18 digital) licensed to Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States

KFYO

KTTZ-TV, a television station (channel 5 analog/39 digital) licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States, which formerly used the call sign KFYO-TV

KFYR

KFYR-TV, a television station (channel 5 analog/31 digital) licensed to Bismarck, North Dakota, United States

KHAS

KHAS-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Hastings, Nebraska, United States

KLCS

The short farewell video that preceeded the shutdown was a montage of KLCS's on-air logos throughout its history (to that date), set to the song It's The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., which was also used by other television stations to commemorate the transition to digital broadcasting, including KTLA (channel 5) locally.

KLUF

KLUF-LP, a low-power television station (channel 5) licensed to Lufkin, Texas, United States

KWHE

KWHE, whose secular programming is usually family-friendly, was one of three stations in Honolulu that carried reruns of the crime drama Hawaii Five-O, which was filmed in Honolulu (the other two being KFVE and KGMB, originally on channel 9, now on channel 5, whose real-life news crew was often featured in many episodes).

KXGN

KXGN-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Glendive, Montana, United States

KYES

KYES-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Liz Brunner

After five years in Tampa, Brunner was hired by WCVB-TV, Channel 5, the ABC affiliate in Boston, as correspondent and fill-in anchor for the award winning, nighly news magazine show, Chronicle.

Lucy Beresford

Her appearances include the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, LBC, CNN, Daily Politics on BBC2, BBC Breakfast on BBC1, Daybreak on ITV, NewsTalk on Channel 5 and Women's Hour and the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.

Mark Eubank

Eubank joined the KSL-TV channel 5 Television news team in 1990 as their chief meteorologist.

Matthew Wright

In February 2014, Wright hosted The Big Benefits Row: Live on Channel 5, a live debate about benefits with guests including Ken Livingstone, Annabel Giles and outspoken newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins.

Media in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

Prince Albert was previously served by CKBI-TV channel 5, a private CBC Television outlet; this station would close down in 2002, with its transmitter becoming CBKST-9, a repeater of CBKST Saskatoon, which in turn was a semi-satellite of CBKT Regina.

North Pole, New York

In 1954, Burlington/Plattsburgh-market NBC affiliate WPTZ (channel 5) was licensed to North Pole at the time of its sign-on (as WIRI).

Omar Chaparro

In March 2004, the TV show No Manches was released on Channel 5 of Televisa, started by Chaparro, No Manches was a family variety-show, with jokes, characters and musical guests, which had international guests such as Robbie Williams, Shakira, Hanson and Thalía among others.

Positive Vibes FM

From June 18 to August 31, 2007 and from September 18, 2007, until the end of 2007, Great Belize Television Channel 5 broadcast the Morning Show from 7 to 9 AM.

Sandy Becker

The best known of these was The Sandy Becker Show, which ran from 1955 to 1968 on Channel 5 WABD-TV and WNEW-TV.

Stasia Czernicki

Czernicki was the first woman bowler regularly seen on the long-running TV show Candlepin Bowling, broadcast on Boston's WHDH-TV (later WCVB-TV), Channel 5.

Toyota Tundra

Complaints were subsequently brought to WCVB-TV Channel 5 investigative reporter Susan Wornick and the story ran repeatedly in spring and fall 2009 prompting the NHTSA to begin an investigation.

VivoCity

The 2007 Countdown, held from 31 December 2006 to 1 January 2007, was held at the rooftop amphitheatre and included performances by well-known homegrown artists from MediaCorp Channel 5 and 8, as well as the Top 11 finalists of the second season of Singapore Idol.

The 2008 Countdown, held from 31 December 2007 to 1 January 2008 showcased Taufik Batisah, Daren Tan Sze Wei and Deal Or No Deal in addition to artists from Channel 5 and 8.

WABI-TV

WABI-TV was the first television station in Maine signing-on January 25, 1953 and aired an analog signal on VHF channel 5.

Wade McElwain

He has been on TV for Channel 4, Channel 5, and Sky Sports, and has interviewed the likes of Roger Goodell, Bruce Smith, and Marshall Faulk.

WCYB-DT2

Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 5.2 from a transmitter on Rye Patch Knob of Holston Mountain in the Cherokee National Forest.

WJJN

WJJN-LD, a low-power television station (channel 5) licensed to serve Dothan, Alabama, United States

WNEM

WNEM-TV, a television station (digital channel 22, virtual channel 5) licensed to serve Bay City, Michigan, United States

WNEW

WNYW, a television station (channel 5) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which carried the WNEW-TV callsign from 1958 to 1986

WPTV-TV

At sign-on, the first words heard on-air were from Control Room Director Vern Crawford: "The power has just been turned on for WJNO-TV channel 5 by Frank M. Folsom, President of The Radio Corporation of America."

WRAL

WRAL-TV, a television station (channel 5 analog/48 digital) licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

WRUF

WRUF-LD, a low-power television station (channel 5/PSIP 10) licensed to Gainesville, Florida, United States