SIC Notícias

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SIC Notícias

Type	Cable television channel
Branding	SIC Notícias
Country	Portugal
Availability	Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, USA, online (PT Multimédia ISP subscribers only)
Slogan	"24 horas em directo e em português" (24 hours live and in Portuguese)
Owner	SIC
Launch date	January 8, 2001
Website	www.sicnoticias.pt

SIC Notícias (pron. IPA: [sik nu'tisiɐʃ]) is the cable news channel of the Portuguese television network SIC (Sociedade Independente de Comunicação) and the second thematic channel of the station. It replaced CNL (Canal de Notícias de Lisboa), an Lisbon region independent cable news channel, on January 8, 2001. Since the end of 2003, SIC Notícias is also available in Angola, where it is also successful, and Mozambique via satellite or cable.

The channel is especially developed for cable, and its programming is almost totally constituted by information and news programs. SIC notícias rates as Portugal's top cable channels. As a response, the public television network RTP bought NTV, the Northern Portugal's news channel and transformed it into RTPN in 2004, directly competing with SIC Notícias.

Beside the news blocks, it also offers special editions and thematic programs on economy, health, interviews, show business, automobile industry, publicity, fashion, society and sports.

The channels' primetime news program, Jornal das Nove, airing from 9-10 p.m., is hosted by Mário Crespo. Other news programs are: Jornal das Duas (2-3 p.m.), Jornal das 7 (7-8 p.m.), Edição da Manhã (7-10 a.m.), Edição do Meio-Dia (10 a.m.). Sport news is updated at Jornal de Desporto (12:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.). Viewers are invited to participate in the day's top story or current nationwide issues at the daily's morning and afternoon editions of Opinião Pública. SIC Notícias has prominent opinion making program such as Quadratura do Círculo and Expresso da Meia-Noite. Celebrity news is updated daily at Caras Notícias.