Country | Spain |
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Broadcast area | Spain, Andorra and Worldwide |
Headquarters | Madrid |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Mediaset España (MFE - MediaForEurope) |
Sister channels | Cuatro Factoría de Ficción Boing Divinity Energy Be Mad |
History | |
Launched | 10 March 1989 3 March 1990 (official launch) | (experimental transmissions)
Former names | Tele 5 (1989–1997) |
Links | |
Website | www.telecinco.es |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital terrestrial television | Mux 25 (Madrid) Mux 34 (Barcelona) Mux 28 (Andorra) |
Streaming media | |
Mitele.es | Watch live |
Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España. The channel was previously known as Tele 5, because it had first begun its experimental transmissions on 10 March 1989, and a year later, it was officially launched on 3 March, 1990, becoming the fifth of the national terrestrial television channels and the second private channel in Spain. In 1997, Tele 5 was rebranded as Telecinco, dropping the biscione-absent flower logo seen in other Mediaset channel logos.