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5Star

5Star
5Star logo.png
Launched 15 October 2006 (2006-10-15)
Owned by Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd
(Viacom International Media Networks Europe)
Picture format 576i (SDTV 16:9, 4:3)
Audience share 0.50%
0.04% (+1) (September 2015 (2015-09), BARB)
Country United Kingdom
Formerly called Five Life (2006-08)
FIVER (2008-11)
5* (2011-16)
Sister channel(s)
Timeshift service 5Star +1
Website www.channel5.com/5star
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview Channel 30
Channel 55 (+1)
Satellite
Freesat Channel 131
Channel 132 (+1)
Sky (UK only) Channel 176
Channel 177 (+1)
Astra 2F 10964 H 22000 5/6
Cable
Virgin Media Channel 151
Channel 186 (+1)
WightFibre Channel 15

5Star (formerly stylised with an asterisk as 5*) is a British digital television channel owned by Viacom International Media Networks Europe. It is a sister channel of Channel 5 and 5USA. It originally launched as the female-oriented Five Life on 15 October 2006, and was rebranded as Fiver on 28 April 2008 with a revised version of the same concept. The channel later re-branded as 5* on 7 March 2011, and later to its current name on 11 February 2016.

The channel is available on digital television via Freesat, Freeview, Sky, and Virgin Media, and broadcasts between 09:00 and 04:00.

The channel was intended to be a female-oriented channel with an emphasis on lifestyle programming. Channel 5 announced that programming on launch would include The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Love My Way, Windfall, Angela's Eyes, and a weekday double-bill of the chat show Trisha Goddard. On 16 October 2006, a day following the channel's launch, Australian soap opera Home and Away began airing from episode 4212 (Series 19). New episodes are shown Monday to Friday in a 'First Look' screening with episodes following the Channel 5 airing. A weekly omnibus also airs every Sunday. Repeats of popular female-skewing dramas, both nationally and internationally produced, were soon acquired. Following the channel's launch, a time-shift version of the channel was launched in summer 2007.

Five Life relaunched as Fiver in 2008 while still targeting female audiences, the channel was re-positioned with a "younger, faster, louder" concept, meant to compete with LivingTV. On-air presentation reflected this shift with a "cursor" motif, typing out words reflecting programs and current events.


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