Canal 5 (Mexican TV channel)

Canal 5

Country	Mexico
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	Av Chapultepec 28, Doctores, Cuauhtémoc, 0672 Mexico City
Programming
Language(s)	Spanish (English/original audio by SAP)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	TelevisaUnivision
Sister channels	Las Estrellas Nu9ve Foro
History
Launched	10 May 1952; 71 years ago
Links
Website	televisa.com/canal5
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television (Except Tijuana and Matamoros)	Channel 5.1 (HD)
Digital terrestrial television (Matamoros)	Channel 2.2 (HD)
Digital terrestrial television (Tijuana)	Channel 6.1 (HD)

Canal 5 is a Mexican free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It traces its origins to the foundation of Channel 5 in Mexico City in 1952 (also known by its identification code XHGC-TDT). Canal 5's program lineup is generally targeted at a younger audience and includes cartoons, foreign series and movies, along with a limited number of sporting events such as NFL games, boxing, the FIFA World Cup and, historically, the Olympic Games.

Canal 5 is mainly aimed at children and youth audiences, although in late hours it usually includes a more general concept with television series and reality shows. Over the decades among its programming, it includes many series purchased from networks such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, among others; while the series aimed at the general public often come from Paramount Network, Fox Broadcasting Company, Warner Bros. (now known as Warner Bros. Discovery), Sony Group Corporation, ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global), MTV, NBCUniversal, Lionsgate, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer among others. The channel also broadcasts series produced by the company TelevisaUnivision, which owns the channel. In programming, its main national competitor in open television has historically been Azteca 7 of TV Azteca.