High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Net 5 was started by the SBS Broadcasting Group as their second commercial channel in the Netherlands next to SBS6. The head of SBS was Fons van Westerloo who left the company to work until 31 January 2008 to head the main competitor RTL Nederland (part of the RTL Group). Van Westerloo announced the new broadcast on December 4, 1998. It was supposed to become a commercial version of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting. Net 5 was launched on March 1, 1999 and the first broadcast was the movie Braveheart. Currently Eric van Stade is the head of the operation. Since there were not that many commercial channels at the time, the Net 5 brand was partly chosen to compete directly with the RTL 5 channel. The goal was for viewers to put Net 5 on position 5 of their remote control settings instead of the older channel RTL 5. But research showed that more people would place RTL 5 on five, and NET 5 on position nine

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