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| Country | Portugal |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Portugal Angola Mozambique |
| Headquarters | Matosinhos |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | FC Porto |
| History | |
| Launched | 29 September 2006 |
| Links | |
| Website | portocanal |
Porto Canal is aPortuguesepay television channel broadcasting fromnorthern Portugal based inMatosinhos. Launched on 29 September 2006, it replaced former NTV (from Porto TV, based inVila Nova de Gaia) which transformed intoRTPN,Radiotelevisão Portuguesa's news channel.
In July 2010, Porto Canal launched three new delegations inMirandela,Arcos de Valdevez andPenafiel, and in the beginning of 2011, three more inGuimarães,Braga andVila Real.[1]
In March 2011, Porto Canal announced a partnership with Portuguese sports clubF.C. Porto. In August 2011, F.C. Porto assumed the management of Porto Canal, launching two new F.C. Porto related programs,Flash Porto andSomos Porto.[2] Porto Canal also broadcasts live full matches of the F.C. Porto teams of football (onlyFC Porto B home games),basketball,handball androller hockey.
In June 2019, FC Porto was sentenced to pay a €2 million fine for publishing and manipulating illegally obtainedBenfica emails on Porto Canal.[3] Related to that, in June 2023, the club's director of communication, Francisco J. Marques, was sentenced to a ten-month suspended prison sentence for aggravated violation of private correspondence or telecommunications and to a one-year and two months suspended prison sentence for offense to a collective person. Porto Canal's contents director, Diogo Faria, received a nine-month suspended prison sentence for violation of private correspondence or telecommunications. Both persons were also sentenced to pay a €10,000 compensation toLuís Filipe Vieira. Júlio Magalhães, the channel's former director, was abolved of all accusations.[4][5]
In terms of content the channel airsgeneralist and regional programming. It focuses primarily on news of thenorthern region of Portugal, having also many diverse programs.
Since the partnership with FC Porto, it has programs likeFlash Porto or45 Minutos à Porto that broadcast club-related news and information.
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| Media Capital | |
| Medialivre | |
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| Disney Portugal | |
| Globo Portugal | |
| Record Europa | |
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| Paramount Global | |
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| Stingray Group | |
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| Defunct | |
| Unlaunched proposals | |
TDT: free-to-air on DTT –AC/MA: free-to-air on regional DTT | |
