Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is jointly owned by A&E; Television Networks, Hearst Corporation, and The Walt Disney Company, with NBCUniversal holding a minority stake. Lifetime's main competitors are Oxygen, the S...
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Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is jointly owned by A&E; Television Networks, Hearst Corporation, and The Walt Disney Company, with NBCUniversal holding a minority stake. Lifetime's main competitors are Oxygen, the Style Network, and WE tv.
Lifetime was established as the result of a merger of Hearst's Daytime network, established in March 1982 as a four hour per day service with women's programming and Viacom's Lifetime Medical Television, established in June 1982 as a 24-hour service that carried health and wellness programming.
The service originally aired women's daytime programming, and later, talk shows, Monday through Saturdays, and offered the Lifetime Medical Television service on Sundays from November 1983 to June 1993 carrying programming for...
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