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 various categories and genres 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, sex, and sports.
Examples of general interest female channels
- 9Gem (Australia)
- 10 Peach (Australia)
- Colours (Philippines)
- Cosmopolitan TV (Canada)
- Diva Universal (Asia)
- Divinity (Spain)
- Escape (USA)
- Estil 9 (Catalonia)
- ETC (Philippines)
- Eve (Southeast Asia)
- La5 (Italy)
- Lifestyle (Philippines, defunct)
- Lifetime (USA)
- Living (UK)
- MOI&cie (Canada)
- Metro Channel (Philippines)
- Mya (Italy, defunct)
- Nova (Spain)
- OnStyle (South Korea)
- OWN (Canada)
- Oxygen (USA)
- Passion (Germany)
- RTL 8 (Netherlands)
- RTL Passion
- SIC Mulher (Portugal)
- Sixx (Germany)
- Slice (Canada)
- Sony Channel (Southeast Asia)
- STAR World (Asia, defunct)
- Téva (France)
- Twist TV (Canada)
- VH1 (USA)
- W Network (Canada)
- WE tv (USA)
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.