A women's interest channel generally refers to either a

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specialty channel A specialty channel (also known in the United States as a cable channel or cable network) can be a commercial broadcasting or non-commercial television channel which consists of television programming focused on a single genre, subject or targeted ...

that targets women as its main

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; offering programs that will appeal to the female population. There are two types of female interest channels: ''general interest'' and ''niche interest''.

General interest

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, and talk shows on varying topics including cooking, travel, cars, sexism, and sports.

Examples of general interest female channels

9Gem 9Gem is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, launched by the Nine Network in September 2010. The channel provides general entertainment and movie programming, from which the original name "GEM" is derived. History Nine N ...

(Australia) *

10 Peach 10 Peach is an Australian free-to-air television channel operated by Network 10. It was launched on 11 January 2011 as Eleven. It is owned by ElevenCo, which was established as a joint venture between Ten Network Holdings and CBS Studios Inte ...

(Australia)-owned by Paramount *

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(Philippines) * Cosmopolitan TV (Canada, defunct) *

Diva Universal Diva, formerly Diva Universal, is a woman-based entertainment channel owned by Universal Networks International. The list of Diva channels includes: * Diva (Asia TV channel) ''defunct'' * Diva Universal (Philippines) ''defunct'' * Diva (Finland) ...

(Asia)-owned by NBCUniversal *

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(Spain) *

Ion Mystery Ion Mystery (formerly Escape and Court TV Mystery, stylized as ESCAPE and MYSTERY; formerly branded on-air as Mystery) is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. It focus ...

(United States)-owned by Scripps *

Start TV Start TV is an American free-to-air television network owned as a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the CBS News and Stations subsidiary of Paramount Global. Predominantly carried on the digital subchannels of its affiliated televisi ...

(United States)-owned by Weigel Broadcasting * Estil 9 (Spain) *

ETC * Etc. or et cetera, a Latin expression meaning "and the other things" or "and the rest". ETC or etc may also refer to: Companies and organizations * ETC (Chilean TV channel), a Chilean cable television channel * ETC (Philippine TV channel), a P ...

(Philippines) * Eve (Southeast Asia) *

La5 La5 is an Italian entertainment television channel, launched on May 12, 2010, operated by the media company Mediaset and owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It is broadcast in Italy on Digital terrestrial television, DTT Virtual channel, channel 30 on ...

(Italy) *

Lifestyle Lifestyle often refers to: * Lifestyle (sociology), the way a person lives * ''Otium'', ancient Roman concept of a lifestyle * Style of life (german: Lebensstil, link=no), dealing with the dynamics of personality Lifestyle may also refer to: Bu ...

(Philippines, defunct) * Lifetime (United States and Canada)-owned by A&E Networks *

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(UK) * MOI&cie (Canada) *

Metro Channel Metro Channel (formerly Lifestyle (Network), visually rendered in its logo in all capital letters as METRO CHANNEL) is a Philippine pay television channel based in Quezon City. It is owned by Creative Programs Inc., a subsidiary of media cong ...

(Philippines) * Mya (Italy, defunct) *

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(Spain) * OnStyle (South Korea) *

OWN Ownership is the state or fact of legal possession and control over property, which may be any asset, tangible or intangible. Ownership can involve multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different ...

(United States and Canada)-owned by WBD *

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(United States)-owned by NBCUniversal * Passion (Germany) *

RTL 8 RTL 8 is a Dutch free-to-cable television channel that was launched on 18 August 2007 replacing Tien, previously known as Talpa. RTL 8's main target audience consists of women. It broadcasts soap operas, talk shows, films and reruns of programm ...

(Netherlands) * RTL Passion *

SIC Mulher SIC Mulher (lit. ''SIC Woman'') is a Portuguese basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Sociedade Independente de Comunicação (SIC) and launched on March 8, 2003. Its target audience are women. Programming *''Alas Smith and Jone ...

(Portugal) * Sixx (Germany) * Slice (Canada) *

Sony Channel Sony Channel is a brand of general entertainment television channels, owned by Sony Pictures Television. It was previously known as Sony Entertainment Television (SET), but many of the channels, except the Indian television channel, were rebrand ...

(Southeast Asia) *

STAR World Star World (formerly known as Star Plus) is an English language entertainment television channel originally launched on 15 December 1991 as Star Entertainment () by STAR TV in Hong Kong as the old iteration of Star Plus. On 30 March 1996, th ...

(Asia, defunct) *

Téva Téva is a French general-interest public television channel, privately owned, with a female and family focus, belonging to the M6 Group. Téva has been broadcast in 16:9 since 10 November 2009 and in HD quality since 8 November 2011. History I ...

(France) *

Twist TV FYI (stylized as fyi,) was a former Television in Canada, Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. Based on the American cable network of the Fyi (TV network), same name, the channel features lifestyle programming ...

(Canada, defunct) * VH1 (United States)-owned by Paramount *

W Network W Network (often shortened to W) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts general entertainment programming oriented towards a female audience. W Network was established in ...

(Canada) *

WE tv We TV (stylized as WE tv) is an American pay television channel. Owned by AMC Networks since its September 1997 launch, it is oriented mainly towards lifestyle and entertainment programming. As of February 2015, approximately 85.2 million Amer ...

(United States)-owned by A&E Networks *

Her TV Her TV (, aTV4) was a television channel produced by Asia Television, which broadcast from December 31, 2007 until April 1, 2009. History His TV started test broadcasting on December 2, 2007 and official broadcasting on December 31, 2007. It coul ...

(Hong Kong) *

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(Philippines, defunct)

Niche interest

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

* Lifetime (Poland)-owned by A&E Networks * LMN (United States)-owned by A&E Networks * Național 24 Plus (Romania) *

Polsat Café Polsat Café is a Polish lifestyle television channel aimed primarily at women. It is owned and operated by Polsat Polsat is a Polish free-to-air television channel that was launched on 5 December 1992 by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak. , it is the most ...

(Poland) *

Prima Love Prima Love is the first niche channel aimed at young, active women in the Czech Republic. The channel, which launched on March 8, 2011, is owned by Modern Times Group and currently has a reach of approximately 94% of the country's 10.5 million p ...

(Czech Republic) *

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(Romania) * Pro Gold (Romania) Women's mass media Women in television Women's interest channels {{Tv-stub