Channel 5 (UK) programming the United Kingdom than in its home country of Australia. Channel 5 regularly screens "Home and Away" along with its fellow Australian soap, "Neighbours". Until 2010 late-night sports programming had been a feature of the channel since its original launch, especially focusing on live or short-delay coverage of major North American sports. Most notably, the channel covered Major League Baseball games, both regular season and playoffs since its first night on air. After the conclusion of "Family Affairs", Five's MLB baseball coverage was the longest and continuously run programme on the channel. Jonathan Gould is the host, with former Great
Soap opera the Beautiful" – continue to air on the three major networks, down from a total of 12 during the 1990–91 season and a high of 19 in the 1969–70 season. This marks the first time since 1953 that there have been only four soap operas airing on broadcast television. "The Young and the Restless", the highest-rated soap opera from 1988 to the present, had fewer than 5 million daily viewers as of February 2012, a number exceeded by several non-scripted programs such as "Judge Judy". Circulations of soap opera magazines have decreased and some have even ceased publication. SOAPnet, which