SIC Novelas

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]

In November 18 2025 SIC Novelas is on Freebox.