NET 5

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NET 5 is a commercial Dutch television channel owned by the SBS Broadcasting Group. Other channels of the SBS Broadcasting Group in the Netherlands are SBS6 and Veronica, as well as radio station Caz!.

Contents 1 History 2 Programs 2.1 Series 2.2 Reality 3 External link

[edit] History

Net 5 was started by the SBS Broadcasting Group as their second commercial channel in the Netherlands next to SBS6. The head of SBS was Fons van Westerloo who nowadays is the head of RTL Nederland (part of the RTL Group). Westerloo announced the new broadcast on December 4, 1998. It was supposed to become a commercial version of the Publieke Omroep. Net 5 was launched on March 1, 1999 and the first broadcast was the movie Braveheart.

Since there were not that many commercial channels at the time, the Net 5 brand was partly chosen to compete directly with the RTL 5 channel. The goal was for viewers to put Net 5 on position 5 of their remote control settings instead of the older but not yet so successful RTL 5.

[edit] Programs

NET 5 is a television station aimed at high-educated female viewers. The station broadcasts various series, reality shows and movies. The most important shows of NET 5 are listed below.

[edit] Series

• Charmed
• Close to Home
• The Closer
• Cold Case
• Dawson's Creek
• Desperate Housewives
• ER (reruns only)
• Evelien
• Everwood
• Gilmore Girls
• Grey's Anatomy
• The Guardian
• I'm with Her
• Law & Order
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury
• Lost
• McLeod's Daughters
• Medium
• Men In Trees
• One Tree Hill
• Peking Express
• Smallville
• Strong Medicine
• Suddenly Susan
• Het Blok
• What About Brian
• Will & Grace

[edit] Reality

• Het Blok
• Born2cook
• Erik zoekt een huis
• SamenWonen
• Peking Express
• In het spoor van Peking Express
• Terra Incognita
• Passion For Fashion
• formerly: Expedition Robinson

[edit] External link

• Official Site