The television version was the first show of its kind in the UK allowing viewers to communicate live with female presenters via a premium-rate telephone number or text messaging.

Whilst these channels vary in content and demographic, the premise is generally similar – live, simulated sex interspersed with unscripted conversation, advertising a premium rate number to phone the women, which makes it a profitable business.

[3] David Nugus, author of a privately published study into TV/phone sex channels (Spring 2013), conducted many interviews with the presenters.

In time, Babestation was given longer time-slots, it became a three-hour and then four-hour-long show (11 pm – 3 am), increasing the number of presenters to four or five per night, and improving the technology (the director could now put women on full screen, having only been able to show them on one-sixth of it before, and hand-held cameras were introduced, replacing the poorer-quality static remote-controlled ones that were originally used).

Masti Chat was a daily programme on Babestation which allowed viewers to connect with British Asian women.

Dirty Wives was a show on the Sky version of Babestation 2 that was on once or twice a week in the night hours.