| Broadcast area | Portugal |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Paço de Arcos,Oeiras,Lisbon |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Portuguese |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV |
| 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; 2 years ago (2023-03-14) (FAST) 1 October 2024; 5 months ago (2024-10-01) (linear) |
| Links | |
| Website | sic.pt |
SIC Novelas is aPortuguese subscription television channel airing telenovelas produced bySIC, as well as some Turkish productions. The channel started in March 2023 as aFAST 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, namelyFloribella,Laços de Sangue andLua 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]