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, international shows and local productions including ''

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'', ''

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'' & ''

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'', Dutch versions of ''

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'', the '' Dutch version of ''Project Catwalk'''', ''

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'' and a Dutch version of ITV's ''

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''. Officially RTL 5 - along with

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and

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- is headquartered in

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, broadcasting with a

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TV license. This allows them to avoid more severe control by the Dutch media authorities as Luxembourg's television watchdog is less strict.

History

Early years

RTL 4 planned the creation of an RTL 5 as early as March 1992. The group conducted a feasibility study to create a second channel for targets that were not properly served by the main channel. In a board meeting at the end of June 1993, CLT publicly announced a 2 October launch date, aiming to complement the broader RTL 4. Executives believed that RTL 5 was set to start at the right time, and that the new channel would help develop the Dutch commercial television market. The channel planned to receive US$2,60 per subscriber for its cable fees during its first year of operation. RTL 5 started as ''RTL V'' via the

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satellite on 2 October 1993. The programming mainly consists of shows about cars and programmes for men. Opening night started at 6pm with a preview programme that was partly simulcast with RTL 4, presented by Jan Lenferink, in which its guests searched for "the other side of television". It was followed by the film ''

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'' at 8pm, and at 10:05pm, ''Saturdaynight Five'', featuring "a quiz that is not a quiz and a survey" into the preferences of the progressive Netherlands, with various styles of "top level" music. After an episode of ''

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'' (at 11:30pm), the evening finished at midnight with an eight-hour reading of

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's book ''Neerlands Bloed'' (''Dutch Blood'') over an eight-hour period, recorded at the

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in May 1991. Frank de Jonge had previously appeared in the launch of RTL Veronique four years earlier and "reappeared" in the form of a video recording. In 1994 it changed the

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''V'' into ''5''.

RTL 5 under the early days of HMG

In February 1995, Veronica joined RTL 4 S.A., starting a joint venture called HMG (Holland Media Groep). Two of the channels already had defined targets (RTL 4 continued being a family channel and Veronica was set to be a youth channel), but RTL 5 "clashed" with RTL 4, causing the channel to find a new formula. In March, its founding director Fans von Westerloo left the channel and was appointed for the same position on the upstart network

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. Program coordinator Bart in't Houd also left the channel to join the same post on the new service. With three major channels RTL could disrupt the

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in the

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. A recommendation from the

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suggested the sale of RTL 5 to another company, with

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being interested. The Competition Commission suggested by mid-September to formally create HMG only if RTL 5 was sold and if

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's share was reduced to a symbolic level.

Attempted reconversion to a news and weather format

In the summer of 1996, the channel was aimed at reconverting itself into a news channel, but HMG executives were still pending a final decision. Under pressure of the

the channel was rebranded as ''RTL 5 Nieuws & Weer'' (in English: RTL 5 News & Weather) between 1997 and 1998. RTL 5 became a thematic

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, with an 8pm news bulletin competing against the main edition of ''

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''. It also provided a ten-minute ''Weer & Verkeer'' (weather and traffic) bulletin after the main news. Weeks after the launch of the new format,

tried suing RTL 5 in front of the European Commission, under the grounds that HMG was not following EC recommendations in becoming a theme channel. Part of its line-up still consisted of feature films, going against the news channel concept, and one of the new local programmes, ''5 in het land'', was similar to SBS6's ''

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''. The EC suggested a gradual removal of the general entertainment fare in order to finish the conversion.

Repositioning

With the launch of NET5 in 1999, the channel changed its format again. The channel withdrew its news and weather format and increased its target demographic. In September 2000, the European Commission reversed the restrictions on RTL 5 because competitive channels had been launched in the Netherlands. On 5 June 2001, a Business and Financial News block called

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started on RTL 5 during daytime. Regular RTL 5 programming started at 6pm. RTL Z moved from RTL 5 to RTL 7 on 12 August 2005.

Since 2005

Since then, in conjunction with the RTL rebrand, RTL 5 has become a 24-hours channel. It also absorbed the programmes of the former Yorin channel, while RTL 7, the former Yorin, took RTL5's former output. On 15 January 2024, a new season of ''Big Brother'' premiered on the channel and on Videoland.

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Rock School ''Rock School'' (also known as ''Gene Simmons' Rock School'') is a British reality television series starring Gene Simmons from the rock band Kiss, in which he has a short time to turn a class of schoolchildren into a fully fledged rock band, ...

Royal Pains ''Royal Pains'' is an American comedy-drama television series that ran on the USA Network from 2009 to 2016. The series is based in part on contemporary concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies and follows Hank Lawson, ...

Rude Tube ''Rude Tube'' is a British television programme broadcast on Channel 4 and its sister channel E4. Most of the programme's episodes have been presented by British comedian Alex Zane, who launched the show's pilot episode in February 2008. Comedi ...

* Running in Heels * Saving Grace *

Secret Diary of a Call Girl ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl'' is a British drama television series that aired from 27 September 2007 to 22 March 2011 on ITV2, based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous Belle de Jour. It stars Billie Piper as Belle, a high-end call ...

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* Sleepy Hollow * Smash *

* So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation * So You Think You Can Dance USA *

Spartacus Spartacus (; ) was a Thracians, Thracian gladiator (Thraex) who was one of the Slavery in ancient Rome, escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major Slave rebellion, slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Historical accounts o ...

* Star Wars: The Clone Wars * Stingers * Suits * Survival of the Richest *

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* Terra Nova *

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The Americans ''The Americans'' is an American historical drama, period spy fiction, spy drama television series created by Joe Weisberg for FX (TV channel), FX. It aired for six seasons from 2013 to 2018. Weisberg and Joel Fields also served as showrunners ...

The Benny Hill Show ''The Benny Hill Show'' is a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired on the BBC and ITV between 15 January 1955 and 1 May 1989. The show consisted mainly of sketch comedy, sketches typified by slapstick, mime, parody, and ...

The Blacklist ''The Blacklist'' is an American crime thriller television series created by Jon Bokenkamp and developed by John Eisendrath. It stars James Spader as Raymond Reddington, an international criminal and one of the FBI's Most Wanted fugitives ...

* The Blacklist: Redemption *

The Cosby Show ''The Cosby Show'' is an American television sitcom created by (along with Ed. Weinberger and Michael J. Leeson) and starring Bill Cosby that originally aired on NBC from September 20, 1984, to April 30, 1992, with a total of 201 half-hour e ...

The Ellen DeGeneres Show ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' is an American first-run syndicated talk show that was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. The show ran for nineteen seasons from September 8, 2003, to May 26, 2022, in which it broadcast 3,339 episodes. It was produced by ...

The Event ''The Event'' (stylized as THE EVƎNT) is an American television series containing elements of science fiction, Action fiction, action/adventure and political allegory. It was created by Nick Wauters and aired on NBC from September 20, 2010, to ...

* The Fashion Show * The Glades * The Golden Cage * The Inside * The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency *

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The Nanny ''The Nanny'' is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from November 3, 1993, to June 23, 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish wikt:fashionista, fashionista from Flushing, Queens, who becomes the nanny of three children ...

* The Phone *

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The Simple Life ''The Simple Life'' is an American reality television series starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. It depicts the two wealthy socialites, as they struggle to do menial, low-paying jobs such as cleaning rooms, farm work, serving meals in fa ...

The Sketch Show ''The Sketch Show'' is a British television sketch comedy programme, featuring British comedians. It aired on ITV between 2001 and 2004. The show was first commissioned in 2001 and was co-produced by a company owned by Steve Coogan. Despite t ...

The Strip The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits ...

* The Tribe *

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* Transporter: The Series *

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* True Beauty *

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*Van etter tot engel (

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) * Vijf tegen Vijf (Family Feud) *

White Collar White collar may refer to: * White-collar worker, a professional who performs office-based or similar service-based jobs, as opposed to a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor * White-collar boxing * White-collar crime The term ...

* Wipeout

Teletext

RTL 5 offered a teletext service which stopped on 1 April 2017. The pages 888/889 are still available for subtitles.

Logos

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