Tele 5
| Tele 5 | |
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| Launched | 11 January 1988 (original) 28 April 2002 (revival) |
| Closed | 31 December 1992 (original) |
| Owned by | Tele München Gruppe |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Slogan | Gute Unterhaltung. |
| Country | Germany |
| Broadcast area | Germany |
| Headquarters | Grünwald, Germany |
| Replaced | musicbox (1985-1988) |
| Website | www |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| Astra 1H | 12,480 V, SR 27500, FEC 3/4 |
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Astra 1KR (Austrian version) |
11,243.75 H, SR 22000 FEC 5/6 |
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Astra 1L HD (DE and AT) |
12,574.25 H, SR 22000, FEC 2/3 (DVB-S2) |
| Cable | |
| Cablecom | Channel 038 (digital CH-D) |
Tele 5 is a commercial television channel in Germany. The channel is largely known for showing classic American films and series and Japanese anime.
Tele 5 broadcasts from the Astra 1H, 1KR and 1L satellites and is uplinked by SES Platform Services (now MX1).
The first Tele 5 was a direct successor to Germany's first music television channel called Musicbox which had aired on the same frequency from 1984 up to 1988. Prior to 1988, Silvio Berlusconi bought part of Musicbox and thus initiated the switch from music television channel Musicbox to the generalist channel Tele5, which then broadcast from 11 January 1988 to 31 December 1992. The shows of Tele5 were still produced in the same Munich building as had been those by Musicbox, a music video show named Musicbox remained part of the regular program schedule of Tele5, and several Musicbox show hosts transferred to Tele5.
From 1988 to 1992, Tele5 was part of Berlusconi's Europe-wide network of sister channels all with the number 5 in their names and a stylized flower in their logo, which also included Canale 5 (1980-today) in Italy, Telecinco (1990-today) in Spain (originally also styled as Tele5), and La Cinq (1986-1992) in France (which soon replaced the flower with a star). In Hamburg, Tele5 shared the same terrestrial frequency with RTL Television (then RTLplus), such as that from circa 8 or 9am to circa 5 or 7pm, Tele5 was broadcast on the frequency, and during the primetime and nighttime hours RTLplus was broadcast.
During its four-year lifespan, Tele5 especially due to its children's programming increasingly took market shares from Leo Kirch's German television networks, which prompted Kirch to buy the channel in 1992 and convert it into DSF (Deutsches Sportfernsehen, German Sport Television) on 1 January 1993.
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