A women's interest channel generally refers to either a
television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's s ...
,
network or
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 targete ...
that targets women as its main
demographic
Demography () is the statistics, statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration.
Demographic analy ...
; 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, comedy series, and talk shows on varying topics including cooking, travel, cars, sexism, and sports.
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.
References
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Women's mass media
Women in television
Women's interest channels