We TV

We TV (stylized as WE tv) is an American pay television channel. Owned by AMC Networks since its September 1997 launch, it is oriented mainly towards lifestyle and entertainment programming.
As of February 2015, approximately 85.2 million American households (73.2% of households with television) received We TV. In March 2015, AMC announced it would soon begin making its channels available to cord cutters, including AMC, BBC America, IFC, Sundance TV, and We TV itself.
History
Romance Classics (1997–2001)
We TV was originally known as Romance Classics when it launched on September 1, 1997 under the ownership of what was then the Cablevision Systems Corporation-controlled Rainbow Media. It was originally a movie channel focusing mostly on romantic dramas and comedies, and television miniseries; similar to the original format of AMC (as American Movie Classics), the channel initially broadcast its films commercial-free. At launch, the Rainbow-owned MuchMusic USA dropped movies as a stunt as a movie channel.
Format change as We TV (2001–2014)
This format was abandoned on January 1, 2001, when the channel was relaunched as WE: Women's Entertainment, taking on an ad-supported general entertainment format. In 2006, the channel was renamed WE tv. The channel aired the first three seasons of the popular Logie Award-winning Australian television series McLeod's Daughters, but dropped the show in April 2006. The channel's format then shifted towards reality shows, with several having topics related to weddings (such as Bridezillas, Big Easy Brides and My Fair Wedding with David Tutera). Other popular shows on the included Secret Lives of Women, The Locator and Amazing Cakes. In 2009, Rainbow launched Wedding Central, a sister channel to WE tv. The channel closed on July 1, 2011.
In January 2011, We TV confirmed that it had signed Toni Braxton for a reality series, entitled Braxton Family Values, which is marketed as one of the flagship shows. To prepare for a new show lineup, We TV also gave the AMC a new logo and marketing tagline: "Life As WE Know It". In March 2012, We TV confirmed that the AMC had ordered 14 episodes of Kendra on Top, a reality show following the lives of Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett, who previously appeared in the E! reality series Kendra. Kendra said the show focuses on "motherhood, parenthood, and wife hood". Kendra On Top premiered on June 5, 2012.
Rebranding (2014–present)
In June 2014, AMC unveiled a new logo, dropping the "Women's Entertainment" tagline. AMC president Marc Juris explained that while the AMC was to remain "a leading destination for women on television and online", the goal of the new branding was to broaden the focus on the word "we" as representing shared experiences, describing it as "a powerful and universal theme which drives connection, conversation, collaboration and community". As part of the rebranding, AMC also announced its first original scripted series, The Divide, which was originally pitched for sister AMC, and was canceled after its first season. Its second series, South of Hell, was ordered, but burned off in one day on 2015's Black Friday after a change in the network's management back towards exclusively original reality programming.
Current programming
Unscripted
Bridezillas
Bridezillas: Scared Fit
Extreme Love
Growing Up Hip Hop
Grown & Gospel
Love After Lockup
Love After Lockup: Life After Lockup
Mama June: From Not to Hot
Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars
Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition
The TS Madison Experience (March 4, 2021)
Untold Stories of Hip Hop
Waka & Tammy: What The Flocka
Acquired unscripted
Beyond the Pole (2021)
Joseline's Cabaret (2021)
The Real Blac Chyna (2021)
Acquired scripted
9-1-1 (20th Television)
Bones (20th Television)
Criminal Minds (CBS Studios, ABC Signature)
CSI: Miami (CBS Studios)
Law & Order (Universal Television)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Universal Television)
Monk (Universal Television, ABC Signature)
NCIS (CBS Studios)
Double Cross (ALLBLK)
Former programming
Scripted
The Divide
South of Hell
Unscripted
Braxton Family Values
A Stand Up Mother
Adoption Diaries
Adventures in Doggie Day Care
Alien Abduction:True Confessions
Amazing Wedding Cakes
America's Cutest Puppies
American Princess
Amsale Girls
Big Easy Brides
Bride vs. Bride
Bulging Brides
Cheerleader U
Cinematherapy
Crimes of Passion
The Cupcake Girls
Cutting It: In the ATL
Cyndi Lauper: Still So Unusual
David Tutera's CELEBrations
Designer to the Stars: Kari Whitman
Dirty Dancing
Downsized
Dr. Miami
Driven to Love
Ex Isle
Extreme Ghost Stories
Family Restaurant
Fix My Family
Ghosts In The Hood
Girl Meets Cowboy
Girl Meets Gown
Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta
Growing Up Hip Hop: New York
Hair Trauma
High School Confidential
House of Curves
Hustle & Soul
I Want to Save Your Life
Jilted?
Jim & Chrissy: Vow or Never
Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?
John Edward Cross Country
Kendra on Top
Kiss & Tell
L.A. Hair
Little Miss Perfect
The Locator
Love Thy Sister
The Lylas
Mary Mary
Match Made In Heaven
Money. Power. Respect.
Most Popular
My Life is a Telenovela
Mystery Millionaire
Obsessed with the Dress
Party Mama's
Platinum Babies
Platinum Weddings
Pregnant & Dating
Raising Sextuplets
Rescue Mediums
Rich Bride Poor Bride
Secret Lives of Women
Sanya's Glam & Gold
Selling It: In the ATL
Sex Box
Sex Change Hospital
Shannen Says
She House
She's Moving In
Sinbad: It's Just Family
Sisters in Law
Skating's Next Star
Spend It Fast!
Split Ends
Staten Island Cakes
Style Me with Rachel Hunter
Sunset Daze
SWV Reunited
Tamar & Vince
Tamar Braxton: Get Ya Life!
Texas Multi Mamas
Twister Sisters
Ugliest House on The Block
Unforgivable Crimes
WE Investigates
Wedding Central
Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter
Women Behind Bars
You're Wearing That?!?
Acquired
20/20 (ABC Signature)
48 Hours (CBS Studios)
Blue Planet II (BBC Studios)
Boston Public (20th Television)
Charmed (CBS Studios)
Committed (Nelvana)
Dharma & Greg (20th Television)
Felicity (ABC Signature)
Frasier (CBS Studios)
Ghost Whisperer (CBS Studios, ABC Signature)
Girlfriends (CBS Studios)
The Golden Girls (ABC Signature)
The Great Christmas Light Fight (Fremantle)
Hope & Faith (ABC Signature)
House (Universal Television)
How to Get Away with Murder (ABC Signature)
Kate & Allie (Universal Television)
Madam Secretary (CBS Studios)
McLeod's Daughters (Southern Star)
The Naked Truth (Sony Pictures Television)
Ned and Stacey (Sony Pictures Television)
Orphan Black (AMC Studios)
Roseanne (The Carsey-Werner Company)
Two Guys and a Girl (20th Television)
Will & Grace'' (Universal Television)
References
External links
AMC Networks
Television channels and stations established in 1997
English-language television stations in the United States
Women's interest channels