SIC Comédia
SIC Comédia was a Portuguese TV channel, available on cable. It was part of the television network SIC (Sociedade Independente de Comunicação). It closed on 31 December 2006.
Country | Portugal |
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Broadcast area | Portugal |
Slogan | Divirta-se |
Programming | |
Picture format | 4:3 (576i, SDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Impresa |
Sister channels | SIC SIC Notícias SIC Radical SIC Mulher SIC Internacional |
History | |
Launched | 29 June 2000 |
Closed | 31 December 2006 |
Former names | SIC Gold (29 June 2000 – 29 April 2002) SIC Sempre Gold (29 April 2002 – 18 October 2004) |
Links | |
Website | siccomedia.sapo.pt (dead link) |
Availability (at time of closure) | |
Cable | |
TVCabo | Channel 10 |
Satellite | |
TVCabo | Channel 10 |
The channel aired shows such as Seinfeld, The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Cheers, The Benny Hill Show, M*A*S*H, Benson, Saturday Night Live, 'Allo 'Allo!, Comedy Inc., Mad About You, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, My Hero, Alas Smith and Jones, The War Next Door. It also showed home-grown product, such as Biqueirada, HermanSic and Prazer dos Diabos.
It is now defunct, because TVCabo, Portugal's main cable provider, decided to drop it despite a petition for it to continue. On TVCabo, Fox Life replaced it, and on TVTEL (another Portuguese cable provider), SIC Mulher got the spot.
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