In 1992, Australia-born Rupert Murdoch's five-channel Star Network was the first to take advantage of increasing economic liberalization.
Or take Smosh, a five-channel YouTube television sensation that attracted 157 million views in December, according to Forbes.
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While it delivers rich three-channel sound when connected to a TV, it also lets you create a true five-channel surround setup pretty much cable-free using a pair of Sonos Play:3 wireless speakers.
All five terrestrial channels - BBC One and Two, ITV, Channel Four and Channel Five - have made the shortlist as well as six digital or satellite channels.
MTV's Asian revenues doubled and its audience grew five-fold, while Channel V's business was flat.
Accordingly, in the space of less than two years, it is adding to its two existing television channels five free-to-air channels, including a 24-hour news channel, five commercial channels produced through a joint venture, and a large and expensive Internet presence.
Last year's top MTV Video Music Award winner, for example, was the eclectic, hard-to-pigeonhole Beck, who took home five of the cable channel's odd-looking silver-astronaut trophies.
"There are four systems in nature that oscillate, and this is the last one where a single-channel measurement has crossed the five-sigma threshold - we know now about mixing in all four of these systems, " he told BBC News.
"It's an astonishing performance for a documentary on Britain's youngest channel, " a spokesman for the five-year-old station said.
The Roys' big moment came in 1998, when they inked a five-year contract to produce all the programming for Star News, Star TV's new 24-hour news channel.
The brand now has five channels, including Shut Up Cartoons, a YouTube-funded channel that features 16 cartoon series.
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YouView - formerly known as Project Canvas - is a partnership between BT, the BBC, ITV, Five, Channel 4, Arqiva and TalkTalk.
Typically, studios sign five-year licensing deals with pay channels and renegotiating those deals to give the pay channel the ability to show films in different ways (over the Internet, on a cellphone, whatever) can be difficult.
Film rental complements the catch-up TV service YouTube operates in the UK with the help of Channel 4, Five and many independent production companies.
They showed that the levees along a navigation channel east of the city, known as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, sank at five-times the average rate for the rest of the city.
The 33-year-old London waitress, who was born in Johannesburg, made it to the last five of the contest on Channel 4's Richard and Judy from 46, 000 entries.
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