| Broadcast area | Portugal |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Paço de Arcos, Oeiras, Lisbon |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Portuguese |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Impresa |
| Sister channels | Sociedade Independente de Comunicação SIC Notícias SIC Radical SIC Mulher SIC K SIC Caras SIC Novelas SIC Internacional SIC Internacional África |
| History | |
| Launched | 14 March 2023 (FAST) 1 October 2024 (linear) |
| Links | |
| Website | sic.pt |
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.
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]