Logo used since 2018 | |
Country | United Kingdom |
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Broadcast area | United Kingdom |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 16:9 576i SDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Paramount Networks UK & Australia |
Parent | Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd |
Sister channels | |
History | |
Launched | 13 February 2018 |
Replaced | My5 |
Links | |
Website | channel5.com |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Freeview | Channel 56 |
5Select (stylised as 5SELECT) is a British free-to-air television channel which features documentaries, arts, dramas, comedies and Channel 5 original content.[1][2] It is owned by Paramount Global and opeated by Paramount Networks UK & Australia.
Channel 5 were set to launch a new channel called 5Prime. It was going to be a catch-up channel, launching in January 2018, but it was never officially launched. A month later, 5Prime was rebranded as 5Select and it launched at 9:00am on 13 February 2018, with the first programme, Access, being shown.[3] On the 1st of July, 5Select moved from the SDN (COM4) MUX to the BBC B HD Mux on Freeview. As a result, viewers with older Freeview equipment lost the channel while viewers with DVB-T2 compatible Freeview TVs or Freeview+HD boxes feature could receive the channel.