History
The channel was started on 3 December 1994 as ''Orange'' on Sky UHF pre-set channel 7. Orange broadcast between 10am and around 11:30pm and during 1995 Juice TV began broadcasting overnight when Orange went off the air. On 1 January 1997, Cartoon Network (Australia and New Zealand), Cartoon Network began broadcasting between 6am and 4pm while Orange was not broadcasting. Orange changed its name to ''Sky 1'' on 1 June 1998 and introduced overnight programming, with ''The Simpsons'' debuting on 7 July 1998 with the first ever episode. The channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day on 1 January 1999 when the Sky Digital service was launched; however, the UHF channel continued to screen Cartoon Network between 6am-4pm and in 2000 this was replaced with Nickelodeon (South East Asia), Nickelodeon. In 2005, Sky Network Television considered unencrypting Sky 1 to make it a free-to-air channel, but decided instead to purchase the existing network, Prime Television New Zealand, Prime. Sky 1 relaunched on 1 February 2008 and in the process its name was changed to The Box. On 2 February 2018, 10 years after the channel relaunched as The Box, it rebranded for the third time in its history, as Sky 5.Former logos
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sky5 Television channels in New Zealand Television channels and stations established in 1994 English-language television stations in New Zealand, S 1994 establishments in New Zealand