Wedding Central was an American

United States

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 digital

Digital cable

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 cable television

Cable television

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 channel that focused on programming involving bride

Bride

A bride is a woman about to be married or newlywed.The word may come from the Proto-Germanic verb root *brū-, meaning 'to cook, brew, or make a broth' which was the role of the daughter-in-law in primitive families...

s and weddings, which was a spin-off

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 of the programming which made up much of WE tv

WE TV

We TV is the third TV channel from Malayalam Communications Ltd, in Kerala and based at Trivandrum. The other two channels of this company are Kairali TV and People TV. WE TV is mainly aimed at the youth and was officially launched on April 14, 2007. Mr...

's schedule at the network's launch on August 18, 2009. The network was launched by the Rainbow Media

Rainbow Media

AMC Networks is an entertainment company in the United States that owns the national cable channels AMC, IFC, WE tv, and Sundance Channel; the regional News 12 Networks, the art house movie theater IFC Center in New York, New York, and the film company IFC Films.The company was originally launched...

 subsidiary of Cablevision. Much of the network's programming was taken from previously aired WE tv wedding programming and wedding-related motion pictures, with little new content offered outside of promotions and on-screen quizzes. Also offered solely on Cablevision systems was interactive television

Interactive television

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 components such as quizzes, polls, voting, and advertising opportunities for national and local wedding retailers.

Unlike WE tv, which was a successful spin-off of AMC itself in 1997, the network had only limited distribution, only being carried on the systems of Cablevision, a limited amount of Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

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 systems, and Mediacom

Mediacom

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. When Cablevision spun-off

Spin out

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 Rainbow Media into a separate public company

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 known as AMC Networks via an initial public offering

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 on July 1, 2011, the new company closed Wedding Central on the same day. Wedding-related programming returned to have a focus on WE tv, and Wedding Central's website now redirects to WE tv's weddings section.

Programming

Series formerly featured on Wedding Central included:

• Always a Bridesmaid
• Amazing Wedding Cakes
  Amazing Wedding Cakes
  Amazing Wedding Cakes is a television series on U.S. cable channel WE tv.It has featured the following bakeries:* Cake Alchemy* Cake Girls* Christopher Garren's Cakes* Merci Beaucoup Cakes...
  
  
• Beach Weddings
• Bridezillas
  Bridezillas
  Bridezillas is a reality television show produced by DCD Media-owned September Films and airing on the WE cable-television network. It follows the lives of women engaged to be married, casting their busy schedules in an emphatic and sometimes humorous fashion...
  
  
• Girl Meets Cowboy
• How to Marry a Prince
• My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding
• Rich Bride Poor Bride
• Single in the City
• The Wedding Planners
• Wedding Cake Masters