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| Country | Denmark |
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| Broadcast area | Kingdom of Denmark |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA (Warner Bros. Discovery) |
| Sister channels | Kanal 4 6'eren Canal 9 |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 January 2000 (as TV Danmark 1) 4 April 2004 (as Kanal 5) |
| Replaced | TV Danmark 1 |
| Links | |
| Website | Official website |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Boxer | Channel 5 |
| Televarpið | Channel 11 |
Kanal 5 (Channel 5) is aDanish subscriptiontelevision channel operated byWarner Bros. Discovery EMEA, a subsidiary ofWarner Bros. Discovery.The station is broadcast to Denmark by satellite fromLondon, showing mainly films,American drama shows and sports.
Kanal 5 aired the Danish version ofSo You Think You Can Dance.
Kanal 5 owns the Danish broadcast rights to showSpanishfootball fromLa Primera Division, and along withCanal Digital it shares the rights to show EnglishPremier League football.
As of 2007[update] Kanal 5 has bought the rights to show theJames Bond movies. At the end of the year, it became the first Danish channel to broadcast a simulcast in high definition.[1]
Kanal 5 is distributed throughcable andsatellite. Kanal 5 lost a large part of the channel's viewers in 2020 after a dispute withYouSee, which led to the channel disappearing from YouSee's TV packages. Therefore, Kanal 5 is now only received by around 31.6% of Danes.[2]
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| Defunct |
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