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La Cinq Launched February 20,vente ray ban, 1986 Closed April 12, 1992 Owned by Mediaset Audience share 13% (1989, Mediametrie) Slogan "Cinq you La Cinq !" (1987)

"Cinéma ou télévision, La Cinq, tous les soirs un film" (1988)
"La Cinq, la télé qui ne s'éteint jamais" (1988)
"L'information sans concession, c'est sur La Cinq !" (1990)
"La 5, c'est 5 sur 5" (1991)
"Faites la chaîne pour votre chaîne" (1992)

Country  France

La Cinq (The Five) was France's first privately owned free terrestrial television network. Created by politician Jérôme Seydoux and Italian media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, the network broadcasted from 1985 to 1992.

The contract for France's fifth terrestrial network, which was supposed to have been in effect for an 18-year term, was granted to Seydoux and Berlusconi in November 1985. Programming began on February 20, 1986, at 8:30 pm; the first program on La Cinq was Voilà la Cinq, which was taped at Mediaset's studios in Milan, Italy.

Economic problems had led to La Cinq's bankruptcy and liquidation in April 1992; the network closed down permanently on April 12,ray ban rb3364 pas cher, 1992, at midnight, following its final program, Vive La Cinq, which was viewed by between 6 and 7 million viewers. The channel's final images before closing down entirely was a text slide that said, La Cinq vous prie de l'excuser pour cette interruption définitive de l'image et du son ("La Cinq would like to apologise for the permanent loss of picture and sound"),ray ban france, followed by another slide that simply said, C'est fini ("It's over").

It would be almost two years before the network's infrastructure was reactivated as a public educational channel, La Cinquième (now France 5).

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^Note 1 Joint venture with Turner Broadcasting System Europe (49%).
^Note 2 Joint venture with RAI (48%) and Telecom Italia Media (4%).
^Note 3 Joint venture with Class Editori (60%) and NBC Universal (20%).
^Note 4 With his version +1
^Note 5 Joint venture with NBC Universal.
^Note 6 With his channels from 1 to 7
^Note 7 With his channel HD

^Note 8 With his channels HD1 and HD2