Telecinco

Telecinco is a Spanish television station.

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One of the leading Spanish private TV companies. It started broadcasting on March 3, 1990. It was the second private TV company, after Antena 3.

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It's owned by Mediaset (50,1%), Vocento (13%) & Free-Float (36.9%).

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On 1997, changed her corporate identity from Tele 5 to the current Telecinco, dropping Mediaset's flower logo in the process.

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Its current hit shows include Los Serrano, Hospital Central, El Comisario, 7 Vidas and Motivos Personales. Former hits include M?dico de Familia, Al salir de clase, Periodistas and talk show Cronicas Marcianas.

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On June 2005, it started brodcasting the fourth season of reality/talent show Operaci?n Triunfo. The previous three seasons were broadcasted by TVE, who refused a fourth.

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Telecinco has recently digitalized their production facilities. This will allow broadcasting of up to 16 different languages, 5.1 surround sound, interactive services, widescreen () programming, or even high-definition television in the future (it currently broadcasts in 4:3 and mono in dtt).

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• Website of Telecinco (Spanish)
• Investor Relations of Telecinco (English)

Spanish: Spanish can mean:...

Television station: A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts video and usually audio to television receivers in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial television. Individual television s...

Mediaset: Mediaset is the first Italian commercial television network. Mediaset has its headquarter in Milan, Lombardy. It was founded by Silvio Berlusconi. Today it is controlled by his family through Fininvest....