SIC Novelas
SIC Novelas is a Portuguese subscription television channel airing telenovelas produced by SIC, as well as some Turkish productions. The channel started in March 2023 as a FAST channel and became a linear channel the following year.
History
The channel started broadcasting on March 14, 2023 as Portugal's first FAST channel, inserted in SIC's own streaming service Opto, airing a handful of Portuguese titles from SIC's archives, namely Floribella, Laços de Sangue and Lua Vermelha.[1] SIC Novelas was the first of a line of FAST channels that the company was launching for the platform.[2]
In the summer of 2024, SIC was studying the creation of a fiction channel on cable, the decision was taken when TVI Ficção, its would-be competitor, was set to become the open-formatted V+ TVI. The channel was tentatively named SIC Ficção.[3] It was later decided that, instead of creating a new channel from scratch, SIC Novelas had to be ported from Opto, with Aida Pinto as its director. The channel launched on October 1 on the NOS, MEO and Vodafone platforms. With the conversion to a linear channel, the Opto stream ended.[4]
References
- ^ "SIC lança novo canal com 24h de novelas em streaming". Além da Tela (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2023-03-15. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
- ^ "SIC Novelas será o primeiro de um "conjunto de novos canais FAST" integrados na Opto". Meios & Publicidade (in European Portuguese). 2023-03-24. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ Ferreira, Carla (2024-07-04). "SIC estuda lançamento de canal de ficção no cabo". eco.sapo.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-09-26.
- ^ Ferreira, Carla (2024-09-25). "Liderado por Aida Pinto, canal SIC Novelas é lançado a 1 de outubro". eco.sapo.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-09-26.