Women's interest channel
A women's interest channel generally refers to either a television station, network or specialty channel that targets women as its main demographic; offering programs that will appeal to the female population.
There are two types of female interest channels: general interest and niche interest.
General interest
[edit]General interest women's channels are television channels that contain programming from diverse genres and categories that will appeal to the female population including films, lifestyle series, dramatic series, reality series, comedy series, and talk shows on varying topics including cooking, travel, cars, sexism, and sports.
Examples of general interest female channels
[edit]- 3 Plus (Albania)
- 9Gem (Australia)
- 10 Peach Comedy (Australia)-owned by Paramount
- Asiavideo Channel (Luxembourg)
- bTV Story (Bulgaria)
- Colours (Philippines)
- Cosmo (Spain)
- Cosmopolitan TV (Canada; defunct)
- CTV Drama Channel (Canada)
- Diva Universal (Asia)-owned by NBCUniversal
- Divinity (Spain)
- DKiss (Spain)
- Doma TV (Croatia)
- Duo 4 (Estonia)
- eBella (South Africa; defunct)
- Ion Mystery (United States)-owned by Scripps
- ITVBe (UK)
- Start TV (United States)-owned by Weigel Broadcasting
- Eve (Southeast Asia)
- FEM (Norway)
- Frii (Finland)
- Her TV (Hong Kong)
- JOJ WAU (Slovakia)
- Kanal 4 (Denmark)
- Kanal 11 (Sweden)
- KBS Story (South Korea)
- La5 (Italy)
- La7d (Italy)
- Liv (Finland)
- Lifestyle (Philippines; defunct)
- Lifetime (United States and Canada)-owned by A&E Networks
- Magna Channel (Indonesia)
- Markíza Doma (Slovakia)
- MBC 4 (MENA)
- Metro Channel (Philippines)
- MTV ava (Finland)
- Mya (Italy; defunct)
- MYTV (Indonesia; defunct)
- NET5. (Netherlands)
- Nova (Spain)
- Nova Lady (Czechia)
- Nova Life (Greece)
- OWN (United States and Canada)-owned by WBD
- Oxygen (United States)-owned by NBCUniversal
- Play7 (Belgium)
- Prva Life (Serbia, Montenegro)
- Quest Red (UK, Ireland)
- Really (UK, Ireland)
- RTL 8 (Netherlands)
- RTL Passion (Germany, Croatia)
- RTL UP (Germany)
- SIC Mulher (Portugal)
- Sixx (Germany)
- Slice (Canada)
- SolarFlix (Philippines)
- Sony Channel (Southeast Asia; defunct)
- STAR World (Asia; defunct)
- Sjuan (Sweden)
- Téva (France)
- TLC (United States)-owned by WBD
- Tring Novelas HD (Albania)
- Tring Turkish Stories (Albania)
- Twist TV (Canada; defunct)
- TV2 Klub (Hungary)
- TV3 Life (Latvia, Estonia)
- TV6 (Norway)-owned by Viaplay Group
- TV8 (Sweden)-owned by Viaplay Group
- TV8 (Lithuania)
- tvN Story (South Korea)
- TVP Kobieta (Poland)
- U&Drama (UK)
- U&W (UK)
- VH1 (United States)-owned by Paramount
- W Network (Canada)
- WE tv (United States)-owned by A&E Networks
- Velvet (Philippines; defunct)
Niche interest
[edit]Niche interest women's channels are television channels that contain programming with a specific television genre such as film channels, and lifestyle channels.
Examples of women's interest niche channels
[edit]- Acasă (Romania)
- Acasă Gold (Romania)
- Al Nahar Enty (Egypt)
- BBC Lifestyle (MENA, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Romania, Poland)
- Brio (Slovenia)
- Canal+ Elles Centre (Africa)
- Canal+ Elles Ouest (Africa)
- Canal+ Mae Madi (Myanmar)
- Canal+ Novela (Ethiopia)
- Celebrities TV (Indonesia)
- CTV Life Channel (Canada)
- Digi Life (Romania)
- GMA Life TV (MENA; defunct)
- Jelita (Indonesian; defunct)
- Happy (Romania)
- Kanal 7+ (Baltics; defunct)
- LifeStyle (Australia)
- Lifetime (Poland)-owned by A&E Networks
- Living HD (Albania)
- Living (New Zealand)
- LMN (United States)-owned by A&E Networks
- MAK TV (Greece)
- Național 24 Plus (Romania)
- Planet Eva (Slovenia)
- Polsat Café (Poland)
- Prima Love (Czechia)
- Real Time (Italy)
- RTL Living (Germany, Croatia)
- RTL Lounge (Netherlands)
- RTS Život (Serbia)
- Sat.1 Gold (Germany)
- TV1 (Lithuania)
- TV 2 Fri (Denmark)
- TV 2 Livsstil (Norway)
- TVN Style (Poland)