Channel 5 Launch
Broadcast
30th March 1997
© Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd
Britain’s latest channel finally arrives, and who else could open it but Britain’s most famous Five-some, The Spice Girls, who sang a re-working of the 1960’s hit “5-4-3-2-1” Tim Vine and Julia Bradbury carried on the proceedings by explaining what ‘5’ was all about.
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