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VIJF
Launched	1 October 2004
Owned by	SBS Belgium
Picture format	625 Lines PAL (analogue), 576i SDTV (digital)
Audience share	4.77% (2008, [1])
Country	Belgium
Formerly called	VIJFtv VT5 (working name, after VT4)
Website	www.vijftv.be
Availability
Satellite
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal (BE)	Channel 6
Astra 1L 19.2° east	12670V, 22.0, 5/6
Cable
Telenet Digital (Flanders)	Channel 6
Telenet Digital TV (Brussels)	Channel 105
Telenet	Channel number varies
Voo (Brussels) Digital	Channel 73
IPTV
Belgacom TV (VDSL) (Flanders)	Channel 5
Belgacom TV (VDSL) (Brussels)	Channel 54
Belgacom TV (VDSL) (Wallonia)	Channel 224

VIJF (formerly VIJFtv, literally: Five) started in October 2004 as SBS Belgium's second channel and a sister channel to VIER (formerly VT4).

History

Old VIJF logo between 2011 and 2012.

On 1 October 2004, the first broadcast was that of a soccer game, even though women are the channel's target audience. By doing that the station made sure that men also would set their TV up to view VIJF.^[2]

In 2005, its first full year of operation, VIJFtv gained a 5% market share in Flanders,^{[citation needed]} almost matching Kanaaltwee (now 2BE) and VT4.

In January 2006, VIJFtv doubled its programming hours and began broadcasting 24 hours every day.

VIJFtv began broadcasting the American daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (in Dutch Mooi en Meedogenloos) on 4 January 2006. It was first shown on public TV, then on VTM, but the rights were sold to SBS Belgium. That also caused an increase of the market share in the early evening.^{[citation needed]}

During the Soccer World Championship^[when?], broadcast on Kanaaltwee and VT4, VIJFtv broadcast "women-friendly" programs. They did this using the slogan Vrouwen weten waarom ("Women know why"), referring to the popular Jupiler beer slogan Mannen weten waarom ("Men know why"). The formula was a success and VIJF's market share grew even further.^{[citation needed]}

On 27 August 2007, VIJF relaunched with 15 new station idents. On the same day, the channel introduced in-vision continuity with three announcers: Gene Thomas, Sophie Dewaele and Els Tibau. Prior to the change in presentation, VIJFtv used Now/Next/Later visuals and voice overs.

On 3 September 2012, VIJFtv's name changed to VIJF, along with new programming and new TV shows.^[3]

Internet television

In 2007, VIJF struck a deal with Zattoo so that Belgian residents can watch the channel using their online television service for free. With the closure of the Belgian Zattoo service in early 2009, VIJFtv disappeared from the platform.

Programming

Current shows

• America's Next Top Model


• Army Wives


• Astrid in Wonderland


• Bizarre ER


• Body of Proof


• Cold Case


• Cougar Town


• Dallas


• Dance Moms


• Days of Our Lives


• Dawson's Creek


• Debbie Travis' Facelift


• Dr. Phil


• ER


• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition


• Friday Night Lights


• Friends


• Gilmore Girls


• Gossip Girl


• Greatest American Dog


• Grey's Anatomy


• Harley Street


• 
  How to Look Good Naked (US version)


• Judging Amy


• Lipstick Jungle


• Men in Trees


• Miami Medical


• Moonlight


• Mystery ER


• Notes from the Underbelly


• One Tree Hill


• Pan Am


• Pretty Little Liars


• Private Practice


• Rescue Me


• Revenge


• Rizzoli & Isles


• Rookie Blue


• Samantha Who?


• Sex and the City


• Stylista


• Summerland


• Swingtown


• Supernatural


• The Bachelor


• The Bold and the Beautiful


• The Client List


• The Closer


• The Dead Zone


• The Good Wife


• The Hotel Inspector


• The L Word


• The Nanny


• The Oprah Winfrey Show


• The Vampire Diaries


• Three Rivers


• Tim Gunn's Guide to Style


• Toddlers & Tiaras


• Ugly Betty


• Unforgettable


• Will & Grace


• Without a Trace

Past shows

• Close to Home


• Columbo


• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman


• Everwood


• Fairly Legal


• Falcon Beach


• For Love or Money


• I Shouldn't Be Alive


• Life's Little Miracles


• Made


• Matlock


• Medium


• Melrose Place


• Monk


• Murder, She Wrote


• Nanny 911


• Poor Little Rich Girls


• Providence


• Seinfeld


• Strong Medicine


• Taggart


• Te Nemen Of Te Laten


• The Dog Whisperer


• The Filth Files


• The Flying Doctors


• The Love Boat


• The Real Housewives


• The X-Files


• The Young Doctors


• Three Wishes


• What Not to Wear


• Whoopi

References