Great Belize Television
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Great Belize Television, or as it is locally known, Channel 5, is a Belize City
-based local television station established in December of 1991. Channel 5 airs mostly American and Caribbean programs, as well as a variety of locally produced programs. It is a subsidiary of Great Belize Productions
, a local production company established in 1982.
Channel 5 is affiliated with the Caribbean Broadcasting Union
and its subsidiary the Caribbean Media Corporation
.
Channel 5 has produced such popular programs as "Lauren Da Mawnin", "The Andy Palacio Show" and most recently Karaoke Television
.
Channel 5's general manager following its parent company's sale to Belize Telemedia
is Amalia Mai. She succeeds Stewart Krohn
, a veteran journalist
.
, the parent company of Channel 5, received its broadcast license from the Government of Belize in 1991 and began broadcasting on December 9 of that year. Beginning in 1992, Channel 5 advertised a weekly schedule of programming in the Amandala
(later shifted to The Belize Times
before being discontinued after 2003). In January 1998, Channel 5 launched its website channel5belize.com, which featured text transcripts for News 5 and video streaming of the newscast. Channel 5, as the Belize representative of the CBU, has won numerous journalism awards at home and abroad.
season it may be slightly longer). The show usually closes with the line "And that's the news!", followed by a plug for the station's website.
, as of November 17, 2008:)
Saturdays and Sundays: News repeats, children's programming in the mornings; movies and variety programming in the afternoon
.
Mondays-Fridays:
Saturdays:
Sundays:
Notes:
After its last program, Channel 5 airs a short film played over the National Anthem, then continues broadcasting via TNT until 6:00 a.m., when the same short film is played to open the day.
Note: Channel 5 sells tapes of the last five programs at its office on Regent Street; one such sale is ongoing.
Belize City
Belize City is the largest city in the Central American nation of Belize. Unofficial estimates place the population of Belize City at 70,000 or more. It is located at the mouth of the Belize River on the coast of the Caribbean. The city is the country's principal port and its financial and...
-based local television station established in December of 1991. Channel 5 airs mostly American and Caribbean programs, as well as a variety of locally produced programs. It is a subsidiary of Great Belize Productions
Great Belize Productions
Great Belize Productions is a Belize-based local production company and the parent company of Great Belize Television .-Founding:GBP was formed in 1982 as a video making company specialising in commercials for Belize's then-small television industry...
, a local production company established in 1982.
Channel 5 is affiliated with the Caribbean Broadcasting Union
Caribbean Broadcasting Union
The Caribbean Broadcasting Union founded in 1970 is a not-for-profit association of public service and commercial broadcasters in the Caribbean...
and its subsidiary the Caribbean Media Corporation
Caribbean Media Corporation
The Caribbean Media Corporation is a Barbados-based centralised content-provider for the various Caribbean media houses in the region. Formed in June 2000, through the merger of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union and the Caribbean News Agency...
.
Channel 5 has produced such popular programs as "Lauren Da Mawnin", "The Andy Palacio Show" and most recently Karaoke Television
Karaoke Television
Karaoke Television, usually called KTV for short, was a live-action music competition airing on Great Belize Television . It premiered in February 2001 and completed six seasons as of October 30, 2007.-Origins and format:...
.
Channel 5's general manager following its parent company's sale to Belize Telemedia
Belize Telemedia
Belize Telemedia Limited , formerly Belize Telecommunications Limited, is a telecommunications company in Belize. Established in 1972 as the Telecommunications Authority, it rapidly became Belize's leading telecommunication provider in the 1980s and 90s. Today, it enjoys the most subscribers to...
is Amalia Mai. She succeeds Stewart Krohn
Stewart Krohn
Stewart Krohn is a Belizean television executive and journalist. He is the general manager of Great Belize Television, a subsidiary of Great Belize Productions, Ltd.- Great Belize :...
, a veteran journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
.
History
Great Belize ProductionsGreat Belize Productions
Great Belize Productions is a Belize-based local production company and the parent company of Great Belize Television .-Founding:GBP was formed in 1982 as a video making company specialising in commercials for Belize's then-small television industry...
, the parent company of Channel 5, received its broadcast license from the Government of Belize in 1991 and began broadcasting on December 9 of that year. Beginning in 1992, Channel 5 advertised a weekly schedule of programming in the Amandala
Amandala
Amandala is a Belizean tabloid newspaper; published twice weekly, it is considered the "most widely circulated newspaper in Belize." It was established on August 13, 1969 as the chief spreadsheet for the United Black Association for Development...
(later shifted to The Belize Times
The Belize Times
The Belize Times is a Belizean newspaper published once a week and the official organ of the People's United Party. It was established in 1956 and sells for BZ$1.00.Its offices are located at the PUP's Belize City headquarters at 3 Queen Street, Belize City...
before being discontinued after 2003). In January 1998, Channel 5 launched its website channel5belize.com, which featured text transcripts for News 5 and video streaming of the newscast. Channel 5, as the Belize representative of the CBU, has won numerous journalism awards at home and abroad.
News 5
Channel 5's News Department produces News 5 Live for broadcast every night from Monday to Friday at 6:30 PM, repeating later that night at 10:00 PM and at 12:00 nn the following afternoon (there are no weekend newscasts). The program has been the flagship of Channel Five since it premiered on December 5, 1991 (The station itself proclaimed it the longest running program onair, followed by San Ignacio Channel 3's "The Kent Pandy Show". The program runs for 60 minutes minus commercials (during electionElection
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...
season it may be slightly longer). The show usually closes with the line "And that's the news!", followed by a plug for the station's website.
Daily Schedule
Mondays-Fridays (all times CentralCentral Time zone
In North America, the Central Time Zone refers to national time zones which observe standard time by subtracting six hours from UTC , and daylight saving, or summer time by subtracting five hours...
, as of November 17, 2008:)
- 6:00 AM Morning signon
- 6:05 AM Cartoons/children's shows
- 6:30 AM Open Your EyesOpen Your Eyes-Albums:* Open Your Eyes * Open Your Eyes * Open Your Eyes * Open Your Eyes, by The Faragher Brothers* Open Your Eyes, by Kim Kyung Ho* Open Your Eyes, by Maria Muldaur...
(hosts William NealWilliam NealWilliam Neal, is an English painter and graphic designer born in Guildford in 1947, but who was brought up in the village of Bramley, Surrey, England. He gained international fame for his artwork on the progressive rock albums Tarkus and Pictures at an Exhibition by the English progressive rock...
and Marleni Cuellar) - 7:30 AM CNN Headline NewsCNN Headline NewsHLN, formerly known as CNN Headline News and CNN2, is a cable television news channel based in the United States and a spinoff of the cable news television channel, CNN. Initially airing tightly-formatted 30-minute newscasts around the clock, since 2005, the channel has increasingly aired long-form...
- 9:00 AM Crime dramas (Without A TraceWithout a TraceWithout a Trace is an American television drama which originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series was set in New York City and concerned a fictitious FBI Missing Persons Unit.-Premise:...
, Numb3rsNUMB3RSNumb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
, Close to Home, Burn NoticeBurn noticeA burn notice is an official statement issued by one intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an individual or a group is unreliable for one or more reasons...
, Criminal MindsCriminal MindsCriminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...
)/CW comedies (Everybody Hates ChrisEverybody Hates ChrisEverybody Hates Chris is an African American television period sitcom inspired by the teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock , while growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York . The show is set from 1982 to 1987; however, Rock himself was a teenager during years...
, All of UsAll of UsAll of Us is an American sitcom that premiered on the now-defunct UPN network in the United States on September 16, 2003, where it aired for its first three seasons. October 1, 2006, the show moved to The CW, a new network formed by the merger of UPN and The WB All of Us is an American sitcom that...
, The GameThe Game (US TV series)The Game is an American comedy-drama television series created by Mara Brock Akil and produced by Kelsey Grammer. Premiering on October 1, 2006, the series debuted as the only new comedy series chosen for The CW's primetime schedule...
, GirlfriendsGirlfriendsGirlfriends is an American comedy-drama sitcom that premiered on September 11, 2000, on UPN and aired on UPN's successor network, The CW, before being cancelled in 2008...
) - 10:00 AM UnivisionUnivisionUnivision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
Spanish telenovela - 11:00 AM Wheel of Fortune
- 11:30 AM Jeopardy!Jeopardy!Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
- 12:00 PM News 5 (REPEAT)
- 1:00 PM The Young and the RestlessThe Young and the RestlessThe Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
(CBS soap) - 2:30 PM Varied programming to 6:30 P.M.
Saturdays and Sundays: News repeats, children's programming in the mornings; movies and variety programming in the afternoon
Evening Schedule
All times are CentralCentral Time zone
In North America, the Central Time Zone refers to national time zones which observe standard time by subtracting six hours from UTC , and daylight saving, or summer time by subtracting five hours...
.
Mondays-Fridays:
- 6:30 PM: News 5 Live
- 7:30 PM: Caribbean Newsline (CMC)
- 8:00 PM: ABC World News with Diane Sawyer
- 8:30 PM: various programming
- 10:00 PM: News 5 Live Repeat
- 11:00 PM: Noticiero UnivisionNoticiero UnivisionNoticiero Univision is the nightly 6:30 p.m. ET/PT/5:30 p.m. CT/MT newscast on United States Spanish language television network Univision. It is produced by Noticias Univision, the network's news division....
- 11:30 PM: Late Night Movie/television program (signoff immediately thereafter)
Saturdays:
- 5:00 PM: National Geographic ExplorerNational Geographic ExplorerNational Geographic Explorer is an American documentary television series that originally premiered on Nickelodeon on April 7, 1985, after having been produced as a less costly and intensive alternative to PBS's National Geographic Specials by Pittsburgh station WQED...
/other National Geographic programming - 7:00 PM: ABC World News
- 7:30 PM: various programming
- 8:00 PM: Movies until signoff
Sundays:
- 1:00 PM: Cartoons
- 2:00 PM: Movies
- 5:00 PM: various programming
- 6:00 PM: 60 Minutes60 Minutes60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
(CBS) - 7:00 PM: ABC World News
- 7:30 PM: various programming
- 8:00 PM: Sunday Night Movie/various programming
- 10:00 PM: Sabado GiganteSábado GiganteSábado Gigante is a Spanish-language television show that is Univision's longest-running program and the longest-running variety TV show in the world. Sábado Gigante is an eclectic and frenetic mix of various contests, human-interest stories, and live entertainment...
(UnivisionUnivisionUnivision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
)
Notes:
After its last program, Channel 5 airs a short film played over the National Anthem, then continues broadcasting via TNT until 6:00 a.m., when the same short film is played to open the day.
Local Programs broadcast by Channel 5: Past and Present
- The Andy PalacioAndy PalacioAndy Vivian Palacio was a Belizean Punta musician and government official. He was also a leading activist for the Garínagu and their culture.-Biography:...
Show (Palacio also wrote the theme for News 5 Live; discussed local music) - Lauren Da Mawnin (short-lived morning program featuring comic Lauren Burgess; spawned primetime Sunday program spinoff Lauren Da Nite)
- One on One (featured Stuart LeslieStuart LeslieStuart Leslie is a Belizean public servant and ambassador. He served as Belize's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2000 to 2005. He served as Belize's Chief Elections Officer from September 2005 to December 2006. In January 2006 he took up a new appointment as the Ambassador of...
and Dickie Bradley; talk) - Karaoke TelevisionKaraoke TelevisionKaraoke Television, usually called KTV for short, was a live-action music competition airing on Great Belize Television . It premiered in February 2001 and completed six seasons as of October 30, 2007.-Origins and format:...
- Noh Matta Wat!Noh Matta Wat!Noh Matta Wat! is a Belizean dramatic television series. It airs locally on Great Belize Television ; Tropical Vision Limited and Krem Television ....
(produced by 13 Productions; co-broadcast with Channel 7Tropical Vision LimitedTropical Vision Limited, or as it is locally known, Channel 7, is a Belize City based television station operating since 1981.Its Managing Director is Nestor Vasquez.- Schedule :Weekdays...
and Krem TVKrem TelevisionKrem Television is a Belizean television station established in 2004 and serving Belize City.Its manager is KREM Radio alumnus Evan "Mose" Hyde and it is part of KREMANDALA Ltd.- Establishment :...
) - Gimme 5! (special promotion, held every year for one week)
- Hurricane IrisHurricane IrisHurricane Iris was a Category 4 hurricane that devastated Belize in October 2001. It was the eleventh tropical cyclone, ninth named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the second strongest storm of the season behind Hurricane...
: After the Storm (compilation of news stories on the hurricane; VHS) - The Land of Belize (host Therese Rath, discusses Belize's geography; VHS)
- The Sea of Belize (host Tom Greenwood, discusses Belize's marine ecosystems and resources; VHS)
- Belize: The Maya Heritage (host Froyla Salam, discusses the first settlers of Belize; VHS)
- From Invasion to Nation: A History of Belize (based on Assad Shoman's 13 Chapters of a History of Belize; VHS)
Note: Channel 5 sells tapes of the last five programs at its office on Regent Street; one such sale is ongoing.