Televisão Independente

Televisão Independente
Launched 20 February 1993
Owned by Media Capital ( PRISA )
Picture format Resolution:
576i (PAL)
Aspect Ratio:
4:3
Audience share 26.5% (Dez '11, [1])
Slogan "Uma televisão feita por si" ("A television made by you")
Country Portugal
Broadcast area Portugal
Headquarters Queluz de Baixo (Oeiras)
Formerly called 4 (1993-1995)
Sister channel(s) TVI 24, Caça e Pesca
Website www.tvi.pt
Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue Channel 4 (Until 2012)
Digital Channel 4
Satellite
ZON TV Channel 4
meo Satélite Channel 4
Cable
ZON TV Channel 4
Cabovisão Channel 4
IPTV
meo Channel 4
Optimus Clix TV Channel 4
Vodafone Casa TV Channel 4

Televisão Independente (TVI) ("Independent Television") is Portugal's fourth terrestrial television channel, launched in 1993. It has been leading audience ratings since 2005.[1] It competes directly with SIC and RTP1.

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History

TVI was the second private Portuguese TV channel to be launched, SIC having being launched five months before, and the fourth channel in all. Already under the name TVI, but marketed as 4, in which the '4' was the sole element in its logo, TVI was initially owned by some prominent Catholic Church institutions, including Rádio Renascença, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and União das Misericórdias; Antena 3 Televisión, Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion, Sonae, SBS Broadcasting, Yorkshire Television and many other media enterprises were minor stakeholders of TVI. This majority-Catholic ownership pushed TVI's programming in the direction of Christian values. In the first years of its existence, TVI assumed the role of an 'alternative' television broadcaster, dedicating segments of its airtime to distinct target audiences, with part of the morning dedicated to housewives and the elderly and part of the afternoon to the young.

During this period, TVI was known for its American series and movies, including X-Files and Baywatch, and the Spanish show El gran juego de la oca (translated as O Jogo do Ganso) imported from Antena 3. TVI also brought in some prominent names in Portuguese television, including Manuel Luís Goucha and Artur Albarran, but the viewing figures had were always lower than expected and it entered into deep financial crisis.

TVI's recovery happened when it was totally acquired by Media Capital in 1999, one of the most important media conglomerates in Portugal, whereupon it started broadcasting more Portuguese-produced programmes, including soap operas. This helped to increase its audience significantly, but it was in September 2000, when Big Brother started, that the channel gained a boost in popularity.

Now the most watched station in the country, TVI is known for having a large number of national reality shows and soap operas. It broadcasts a mix of local productions, such as soap operas, family series and reality shows, news programs and international movies and series (mostly American). It is currently owned by Media Capital, which is owned by Grupo Prisa. Until February 2007, Media Capital was co-owned by RTL Group and Grupo Prisa. The station works with Media Capital-owned production company Plural Entertainment to produce its national fictional content.

Unlike state broadcaster RTP and commercial rival SIC, which have always shown foreign programmes in the original language with subtitles, TVI tried, unsuccessfully, to dub foreign programmes into Portuguese after achieving marginal success with Latin American Spanish-language soap operas dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese. Experiments of dubbing included the US series Dawson's Creek and other shows directed at younger audiences.

Criticism

TVI is much criticized as it broadcasts US television series such as House, The 4400, Nip/Tuck, NUMB3RS, The Shield and The Office after midnight. TVI's prime time is reserved for in-house programming, mainly soap operas, viewer-participation quizzes and reality shows.

In July 2010, TVI censored a kiss between two male characters on the youth TV series Morangos com Açúcar, due to pressure by a fundamentalist far-right organization, "National Resistance".[2] This cut has led to a major outcry, and has been widely perceived as an occurrence of homophobia. At least 10 civil society organizations called for the reinstatement of the cut scene.[3]

TVI still broadcasts in 4:3 as of November 2011.

Programmes

Regular

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
04.06 Os Batanetes - comedy sketch show (reruns)
05.00 TV Shop - infomercials
06.30 Diário da Manhã - breakfast news show
10.15 Você na TV - talk show
13.00 Jornal da Uma - afternoon newscast
14.00 Ilha dos Amores - Portuguese telenovela (soap opera)
15.30 A Tarde é Sua - talk show
18.00 Dá Cá Mais 5 - game show
19.00 Morangos com Açúcar - Portuguese Series for Teens
20.00 Jornal das 8 - TVI's flagship newscast
21.30 Secret Story - Casa dos Segredos 2 Diário - Reality-show
22.30 Remédio Santo - Portuguese telenovela (soap opera)
00.00 Anjo Meu - Portuguese telenovela (soap opera)
00.45 Secret Story - Casa dos Segredos 2 Extra - Reality show

National

Soap operas

International

News

Game Shows

Reality Shows

Talk Shows

Sports

Other

See also

References

External links