Television in Portugal

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Television in Portugal was introduced in 1956 (test broadcasts) by Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (now named Rádio e Televisão de Portugal). Regular broadcasting was introduced in March 7, 1957.

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[edit] History

On March 7, 1957 public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) began broadcasting RTP1, the first television channel in the country. A second RTP channel, RTP2, started broadcasting on December 25, 1968. Private commercial channels were launched in the early 1990s, with SIC on October 6, 1992 and TVI on February 20, 1993.

[edit] Terrestrial nation-wide television stations

  • Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, the portuguese public broadcasting corporation, broadcasts two nationwide terrestrial channels, as well as several cable and satellite theme channels. It held the nation-wide television monopoly until late 1992.
    • RTP1 is the flagship channel of RTP, and presents a general programming composed mainly by news, talk shows, discussion-based programmes, national and international fiction and drama and entertainment.
    • RTP2 is the second channel of Portuguese television. It focuses more on intellectual and cultural programming, as well as children and documentary programmes. It is the only terrestrial channel in Portugal that broadcasts international (mostly American) TV-series during the prime-time. Over the years RTP2 earned an elitist reputation (as opposed to populist and sensationalist), and so it is the least watched terrestrial station in Portugal.
  • SIC is the first private television station in Portugal. It focuses mainly on telenovelas and long talk shows (more than 8 hours every day), as well as sensationalist and pimba-themed programming. Like competitor TVI, SIC doesn't broadcast any International tv-series during the prime-time, always after 1 a.m. Despite having the terrestrial exclusivity rights to the various BBC documentary series, SIC doesn't broadcast them at acceptable time slots.
  • TVI is the second private station in Portugal. It focuses mainly on portuguese telenovelas (usually 5 or more in production at the same time), as well as overtly and sensationalist talk-shows. These talk-shows account for more than 45% of TVI's programming, while the other 55% is composed by telenovelas. These talk-shows can be described as the ultimate mouthpiece of the Pimba subculture, as they focus on the so-called Cases of Life (poor and conned people, and so on). TVI has absolutely NO documentary or cultural programming whatsoever. The primary target of TVI is lower class housewives and elderly people. Despite being th most watched TV channel in Portugal (30% of audience share).

[edit] Cable

The following channels are available through TV Cabo, Portuguese Cable TV provider:

The following are Portuguese versions of popular networks that are available globally:

[edit] International

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[edit] Digital television

Main article: Digital television in Portugal

[edit] Ratings

In 2007, TVI was the ratings leader with 29% share while RTP1, SIC and RTP2 had 25.2%, 25.1% and 5.2%, respectively.[1]

[edit] Regulation

Portuguese television is regulated by the Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (ERC).[2]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ O primeiro dia da Quatro in Correio da Manhã, February 15, 2008. Accessed on February 22, 2008. (Portuguese)
  2. ^ Offical site of the Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (Portuguese)

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