See Kitsch And Pornography, Merchants Thereof. Launched in the mid-late 1990s, Channel 5 began transmitting when only sixty percent of the country was physically able to receive a Channel 5 signal. That sixty percent probably wished they couldn't, when Channel 5 opened its first transmission with a song by the SpiceGirls. Since then, coverage has increased at a crawling pace, and there have even, once a century, been things worth watching on it. CategoryTVStation