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.
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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Back in November Samsung announced it had pushed past five million channel sales of the Note II in around two months.
YouView - formerly known as Project Canvas - is a partnership between BT, the BBC, ITV, Five, Channel 4, Arqiva and TalkTalk.
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.
Presenter Denise Van Outen has pulled out of hosting Channel Five's new celebrity magazine show OK!
Channel Five announced her exit in a brief statement on Friday, adding that "both parties wish each other the very best".
The announcement regarding Van Outen's departure came just hours after Channel Five bosses spoke about her role on the show at a press event.
Meanwhile, top spot on Channel Five was shared by Christmas films Mrs Miracle 2 and The Santa Suit, and Eddie Stobart: Trucks and trailers.
However, that aspect of the deal does not cover away qualifying games, and neither the BBC, ITV, Sky nor Channel Five made a successful bid for the match.
Competition for viewers included Channel Five's Celebrity Big Brother, which took 1.5m viewers and 7.6% of the audience in an identical timeslot, C4's Million Pound Drop and BBC Two's Proms coverage.
This part of the bill caused it to be delayed after an opposition challenge in the Lords to stop media magnates such as Rupert Murdoch being able to buy broadcasters such as Five, formerly Channel 5.
"This amendment seeks to put specific restrictions on the ownership of Channel Five, which would create a concentration of power in any industry and in the communications industry it would constitute a threat to our democracy, " said Lord McNally.
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.
MTV's Asian revenues doubled and its audience grew five-fold, while Channel V's business was flat.
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.
Triallists have the choice of 16 channels, including BBC channels, ITV, Channel 4 and Five which they can watch on the Nokia 7710 widescreen multimedia smartphone.
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.
"Storm Chasers" aired for five years on the Discovery Channel.
"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.
The junior network's own Celebrity series finale gave it a larger audience in multichannel homes at 2230 last Friday than Channel 4, BBC Two or Five.
"It's an astonishing performance for a documentary on Britain's youngest channel, " a spokesman for the five-year-old station said.
When it launched five years ago as the first college conference sports channel as a joint venture between Fox Sports Media Group and the Big Ten Conference, some questioned if the Big Ten Network could produce the programming and ratings to prosper.
Five weeks ago, DVA broke out above its upper trading channel.
The brand now has five channels, including Shut Up Cartoons, a YouTube-funded channel that features 16 cartoon series.
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This year only the U.S. Women's Open is on a major network, but Whan said he hopes that NBC, Golf Channel's corporate sibling, will air four or five tournaments in 2013.
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Microsoft entered the market during the quarter with its Surface with Windows RT tablet, but failed to reach the top five after shipping just shy of 900, 000 units into the channel.
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