Features
- 5 News originally provided afternoon and evening updates on the hour, every hour during the week
- A 'ticker' was used during these updates, the first seen on a terrestrial news broadcast, outside of a simulcast with a news channel. It was however switched to a weather ticker before being dropped entirely in 2007
- A presenter standing up or 'perching' rather than sitting behind a desk (which has since been used by other broadcasters). This feature was banned by the channel in 2007, with presenters at the seating area for all bulletins, although the presenters stood again when 5 News was relaunched in February 2011
- On air 'teases' from production staff
- Live discussions involving various experts, campaigners, celebrities and political commentators
- Guest editors - these included Ms. Dynamite, Dame Kelly Holmes, Howard Marks and Alastair Campbell
- Your News, a segment of most bulletins given over to viewers' videos and now adapted by many other news programmes under the banner 'user-generated content'
- On-screen email addresses for reporters while they're on air, a feature previously seen in newspapers. This was dropped a few months after introduction
- When the contract transferred to Sky News, Five News was the first programme to broadcast (and, for the first time, in widescreen) from the news centre at Sky's headquarters in Osterley
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