| Sex Station (Sex Station TV) |
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Programme logo, 2007 |
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| Format | Televised sex line Soft porn Unscripted |
| Starring | Various |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
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| Running time | 9pm-5.30am |
| Broadcast | |
| Original run | 2006 – Present |
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| Preceded by | Live XXX TV |
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| Website | |
Sex Station is a British pornographic television programme, a televised sex line broadcast 24 Hours a day on the internet at www.sexstationtv.com. It was previously aired at nights on Lucky Star (Sky 910) and Live XXX.
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LiveXXX was previously a channel in Sky's Adult section, which ran free-to-air for up to 2½ hours (9pm-11.30pm) before becoming encrypted. After this, live lesbian hardcore content would be screened for subscribing viewers.
Gradually (between March and June 2006), LiveXXX became Sex Station, and moved from channel no 995 to 943 (possibly on 28 February 2006, the same day Babestation was moved). By July 2006, LiveXXX had been removed from ch 943[1]. In late 2006 the Sex Station brand was expanded with the 'sister programme' XXX 4 U on You TV 2 (ch 913) and You TV 2 Extra (ch 914), but these closed in 2007. Normally these would include presenters from Sex Station (or the same feed).
Sex Station is a free-to-air programme that runs from 9pm to approximately 5:30am each night; viewers are encouraged to call a premium-rate telephone number and have a sexually-explicit conversation with a female presenter on-screen - these are not usually heard by the viewers. Viewers may also send text messages and camera phone pictures of themselves.
In general, the presenters of LiveXXX remained on Sex Station; the only major change was the name and the explicitness of the content. At first, Sex Station's studio was red and black (like its logo, see photo below), with a television behind the presenters and the girls sitting on a red plastic/rubber cover, but the studio was changed around July 2006.
The programme contains more recognisable original music than most televised sex lines, with songs such as "Sex (Show Us What You Got, Girl)" and "Your Lips" among the songs played in the background when there is no dialogue.
The official website, www.sexstationtv.com, was redesigned in 2007 to include photo galleries and video of Sex Station's presenters, as well as a webcam section (these are all only for subscribers).
Sex Station also has a channel of free video content (under the name "XXX4U") on Sumo TV.
Sex Station has also launched a 'hardcore' web show, currently showing 7 days a week between 11:00 and 05:30, since June 2008. As of February 2011, the running time was expanded to a 24 hour continual broadcast, the first of its kind in the UK.
The company also launched their video on demand website in June 2008.
Porn Star Diaries was a one-off 30-minute documentary made by Sex Station's producers in 2006, featuring interviews with three female porn stars including Nina Roberts and Bobbi Eden, who then did a lesbian softcore photoshoot together. The interviewees talked about their careers (how they began in porn) and the porn industry generally.
This was broadcast in a 3-hour block at nights on You TV (ch 146, now Sumo TV ch 879), alternating with Babestation's Meet the Babes. A re-edited version of Bobbi Eden's interview was made available on www.sumo.tv.
The current Sex Station cast includes: