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
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 (Australia)
- 10 Peach (Australia)-owned by Paramount
- bTV Lady (Bulgaria)
- Colours (Philippines)
- Cosmopolitan TV (Canada, defunct)
- Diva Universal (Asia)-owned by NBCUniversal
- Divinity (Spain)
- Doma TV (Croatia)
- Duo 4 (Estonia)
- Ion Mystery (United States)-owned by Scripps
- ITVBe (UK)
- Start TV (United States)-owned by Weigel Broadcasting
- Eve (Southeast Asia)
- FEM (Norway)
- FEM3 (Hungary)
- Frii (Finland)
- JOJ WAU (Slovakia)
- Kanal 11 (Sweden)
- KBS Story (South Korea)
- La5 (Italy)
- Liv (Finland)
- Lifestyle (Philippines, defunct)
- Lifetime (United States and Canada)-owned by A&E Networks
- Magna Channel (Indonesia)
- Markíza Doma (Slovakia)
- MOI&cie (Canada)
- Metro Channel (Philippines)
- MTV ava (Finland)
- Mya (Italy, defunct)
- MYTV (Indonesia, defunct)
- NET5. (Netherlands)
- Nova (Spain)
- Nova Lady (Czech Republic)
- Nova Life (Greece)
- OWN (United States and Canada)-owned by WBD
- Oxygen (United States)-owned by NBCUniversal
- Play7 (Belgium)
- RTL 8 (Netherlands)
- RTL Passion (Germany, Croatia)
- RTL UP (Germany)
- SIC Mulher (Portugal)
- Sixx (Germany)
- Slice (Canada)
- SolarFlix (Philippines)
- Sony Channel (Southeast Asia)
- STAR World (Asia, defunct)
- Sjuan (Sweden)
- Téva (France)
- TLC (United States)-owned by WBD
- Twist TV (Canada, defunct)
- 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)
- VH1 (United States)-owned by Paramount
- W Network (Canada)
- WE tv (United States)-owned by A&E Networks
- Her TV (Hong Kong)
- Velvet (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
- Acasă (Romania)
- Acasă Gold (Romania)
- BBC Lifestyle (MENA, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Romania, Poland)
- GMA Life TV (MENA, defunct)
- Jelita (Indonesian, defunct)
- Happy (Romania)
- Kanal 7+ (Baltics)
- Lifetime (Poland)-owned by A&E Networks
- Living (New Zealand)
- LMN (United States)-owned by A&E Networks
- MAK TV (Greece)
- Național 24 Plus (Romania)
- Okezone TV (Indonesia)
- Polsat Café (Poland)
- Prima Love (Czech Republic)
- Real Time (Italy)
- RTL Living (Germany, Croatia)
- RTL Lounge (Netherlands)
- Sat.1 Gold (Germany)
- SBS 9 (Netherlands)
- TV1 (Lithuania)
- TV 2 Fri (Denmark)
- TV 2 Livsstil (Norway)
- TVN Style (Poland)