The president of Portugal’s public broadcaster, RTP, has called for a review of the company’s channel structure. In a parliamentary hearing, Nicolau Santos questioned the viability of RTP’s current eight television and seven radio channels in today’s rapidly changing media landscape. Santos emphasised the need to align RTP with modern audience preferences, which have shifted […]

Portugal’s competition regulator, Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC), has shot down Vodafone Portugal’s attempt to acquire telecom company Nowo. The AdC fears the merger would hurt consumers by limiting competition in the Portuguese telecom market, by increasing market power for Vodafone and its main competitors (Meo and NOS), creating conditions for coordinated offers among them, and […]

Portuguese broadcasting group Media Capital is launching a new general entertainment channel this September. It will replace TVI Ficção, a thematic cable TV channel that airs soap operas, sitcoms and series. TVI Ficção ended 2024 with a 1.3 per cent audience share, ranking as the 9th most-watched cable channel (tied with SIC Mulher) in Portugal. […]

At the end of the first quarter of 2024, there were 4.6 million pay-TV subscribers in Portugal, 88,000 more than in the same period last year (+2 per cent), the slowest growth since 2013. Most subscriptions (96 per cent) are bundled with other telecommunications services, with only 2 per cent sold alone, according to data […]

DAZN has acquires the rights to broadcast the Formula 1 World Championship in Portugal starting from 2025 to 2027. This means that the motorsport competition will be back on DAZN after three years of airing on SportTV in the country. DAZN will broadcast all rounds of the season as well as all sessions, and will […]

Banijay Iberia, comprising Spain and Portugal’s scripted and non-scripted production companies, and Mrs Greenfilm, a sustainability consultancy in Spain, have signed an agreement to help build a greener future. In doing so, they combine their efforts to achieve a more sustainable audiovisual industry. Through education, training and meetings at Banijay Iberia’s labels, the partnership with […]

Impresa, the Portuguese media group, has chosen OKAST Channels to launch its free, ad-supported channels (FAST) on its OTT platform OPTO SIC. The new channels available immediately are SIC Alta Definição and SIC Replay. SIC Alta Definição offers dozens of episodes of SIC’s classic programmes, freely available, bringing together several generations of guests and conversations. […]

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced the extension of its exclusive LaLiga broadcast rights in Italy and Portugal. Already the broadcaster of Spain’s top flight football league domestically and in other key European markets, DAZN has renewed its contract as the exclusive rightsholder of LaLiga EA Sports in Italy and Portugal until 2029. Italian […]

AMC Networks International has appointed Antonio Ruiz as new Managing Director and Executive Vice President of AMC Networks International Southern Europe. He will lead the management of all the company’s brands in Spain and Portugal and report directly to Eduardo Zulueta, President of AMC Networks International. Ruiz brings a wealth of experience from his previous […]

There has been a noticeable decline in Portuguese subscribers to sports streaming platforms since November 2023. The latest B-Stream study from Marktest reveals a drop of 60,000 subscribers, bringing the total down to 809,000 as of February 2024, translating to a national penetration rate of just 9.4 per cent ( down 0.7 per cent). This […]