TVI (Portugal)
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Televisão Independente is Portugal
's fourth terrestrial television
channel, launched in 1993. It has been leading audience ratings since 2005. It competes directly with SIC and RTP1.
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.
, 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". 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.
TVI still broadcasts in 4:3 as of August 2011.
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
's fourth terrestrial television
Terrestrial television
Terrestrial television is a mode of television broadcasting which does not involve satellite transmission or cables — typically using radio waves through transmitting and receiving antennas or television antenna aerials...
channel, launched in 1993. It has been leading audience ratings since 2005. It competes directly with SIC and RTP1.
History
TVI was the second private PortuguesePortuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
TV channel to be launched, SIC
SIC (Portugal)
SIC - Sociedade Independente de Comunicação is a Portuguese television network and media company, which runs several television channels. Their flagship channel is the eponymous SIC, the third terrestrial television station in Portugal, launched on October 6, 1992...
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
Rádio Renascença
Rádio Renascença, also known as 'RR' or just 'Renascença', is a private, commercial, Portuguese radio station owned by various organizations within the Portuguese Catholic Church, such as Patriarcado de Lisboa. It was founded in 1934 and started broadcasting in 1936...
, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and União das Misericórdias; Antena 3 Televisión
Antena 3 (Spain)
Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado....
, Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion
RTL Group
RTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 45 television and 32 radio stations in 11 countries...
, Sonae
Sonae
Sonae is a conglomerate, and is the largest private employer in Portugal. The company is primarily engaged in the operation of retail stores through its subsidiary Modelo Continente....
, SBS Broadcasting
SBS Broadcasting Group
SBS Broadcasting Group was a European broadcasting group, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses in Western and Central and Eastern Europe...
, Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
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
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
and Baywatch
Baywatch
Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, sans the 1990-1991 season, of which it was not in production...
, and the Spanish show El gran juego de la oca
El gran juego de la oca
El gran juego de la oca was a TV game show produced in Madrid, Spain from 1993 through 1995 and again in 1998 as El nuevo juego de la oca. It was a weekly show airing in a block of several hours on the Spanish channel Antena 3, and later Telecinco...
(translated as O Jogo do Ganso) imported from Antena 3. TVI also brought in some prominent names in Portuguese television, including Manuel Luís Goucha
Manuel Luís Goucha
Manuel Luís Goucha is a Portuguese television presenter. The presenter of a long-lasting morning show in RTP , followed by another in rival TVI, Goucha was also known for culinary TV programmes and books, as well as a brief spell as an actor. He also owns a restaurant and is openly gay.-External...
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
Media Capital
Media Capital SGPS, SA, is a Portuguese media corporation founded in 1988 , based in Oeiras, Lisbon. Media Capital is a major media group in Portugal, and is one of the biggest media corporations in Europe...
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
Big Brother (TV series)
Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
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
Media Capital
Media Capital SGPS, SA, is a Portuguese media corporation founded in 1988 , based in Oeiras, Lisbon. Media Capital is a major media group in Portugal, and is one of the biggest media corporations in Europe...
, which is owned by Grupo Prisa
PRISA
Promotora de Informaciones, S.A is a Spanish media conglomerate. The PRISA group was founded in 1972 by Jesús de Polanco.-Newspapers:* El País, daily newspaper* Diario AS sports newspaper* Cinco Días economic newspaper-Magazines:...
. Until February 2007, Media Capital was co-owned by RTL Group
RTL Group
RTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 45 television and 32 radio stations in 11 countries...
and Grupo Prisa. The station works with Media Capital-owned production company Plural Entertainment to produce its national fictional content.
Unlike state broadcaster RTP
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....
and commercial rival SIC, which have always shown foreign programmes in the original language with subtitles, TVI tried, unsuccessfully, to dub
Dubbing (filmmaking)
Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the original shooting. The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers, who may be...
foreign programmes into Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
after achieving marginal success with Latin American Spanish-language soap operas dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay....
. Experiments of dubbing included the US series Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons...
and other shows directed at younger audiences.
Criticism
TVI is much criticized as it broadcasts US television series such as HouseHouse (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
, The 4400
The 4400
The 4400 is a science fiction TV series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Sky Television, Renegade 83, and American Zoetrope for USA Network. The show was created and written by Scott Peters and René Echevarria, and it stars Joel Gretsch and Jacqueline McKenzie...
, Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy...
, NUMB3RS
NUMB3RS
Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
, The Shield
The Shield
The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...
and The Office
The Office (US TV series)
The Office is an American comedy television series broadcast by NBC. An adaptation of the original BBC series of the same name, it depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company...
after midnight. TVI's prime time is reserved for in-house programming, mainly soap operas, viewer-participation quizzes
Quiz channel
A quiz channel is a television channel that focuses on phone-in quizzes. The quizzes usually focus on puzzles, such as filling in blanks, identifying subjects, or other forms of word puzzles....
and reality shows.
In July 2010, TVI censored a kiss between two male characters on the youth TV series Morangos com Açúcar
Morangos com Açúcar
Morangos com Açúcar is a Portuguese Teen drama. It is broadcasted daily on the Portuguese TV station TVI since 2003. In Portugal, it is currently on its eight season....
, due to pressure by a fundamentalist far-right organization, "National Resistance". This cut has led to a major outcry, and has been widely perceived as an occurrence of homophobia
Homophobia
Homophobia is a term used to refer to a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards lesbian, gay and in some cases bisexual, transgender people and behavior, although these are usually covered under other terms such as biphobia and transphobia. Definitions refer to irrational fear, with the...
. At least 10 civil society
Civil society
Civil society is composed of the totality of many voluntary social relationships, civic and social organizations, and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society, as distinct from the force-backed structures of a state , the commercial institutions of the market, and private criminal...
organizations called for the reinstatement of the cut scene.
TVI still broadcasts in 4:3 as of August 2011.
Regular
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04.06 | Os Batanetes - comedy sketch show (reruns) | ||||
| 05.00 | TV Shop - infomercials | ||||
| 06.30 | Diário da Manhã (Morning Daily) - breakfast news show | ||||
| 10.15 | Você na TV (You on TV) - talk show | ||||
| 13.00 | Jornal da Uma (News at One) - afternoon newscast | ||||
| 14.00 | Ilha dos Amores - Portuguese telenovela (soap opera) | ||||
| 15.30 | A Tarde é Sua (The Afternoon is Yours) - talk show | ||||
| 18.00 | Agora é que Conta (Now it Counts) - game show | ||||
| 19.00 | Morangos com Açúcar Morangos com Açúcar Morangos com Açúcar is a Portuguese Teen drama. It is broadcasted daily on the Portuguese TV station TVI since 2003. In Portugal, it is currently on its eight season.... - Portuguese Series for Teens |
||||
| 20.00 | Jornal das 8 (News at Eight) - TVI's flagship newscast | ||||
| 21.30 | Remédio Santo - Portuguese telenovela (soap opera) | ||||
| 22.30 | Anjo Meu - Portuguese telenovela (soap opera) | ||||
| 00.00 | Sedução - Portuguese telenovela (soap opera) | ||||
| 00.45 | various U.S. TV series / mini-series / movies | ||||
International
- EurekaEureka (TV series)Eureka is an American science fiction television series that premiered on Syfy on July 18, 2006. Since then four seasons have aired, and a fifth is currently being filmed. The second half of season 4 began on SyFy on July 11, 2011 and ended on September 19, 2011...
- GleeGlee (TV series)Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
- HeroesHeroes (TV series)Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
(Heróis) - HouseHouse (TV series)House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
(Dr. House) - Law & Order: Special Victims UnitLaw & Order: Special Victims UnitLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
- CastleCastle (TV series)Castle is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered on ABC on March 9, 2009. The series is produced by Beacon Pictures and ABC Studios. On January 10, 2011, Castle was renewed for a fourth season...
- Lie to MeLie to MeLie to Me is a 2009-2011 American television series.Lie to Me may also refer to:* Lie to Me , a South Korean drama series* "Lie to Me" , an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
(Rosto da Mentira)
News
- Diário da Manhã (Morning Daily)
- Jornal da Uma (News at One)
- Jornal das 8 (News at Eight)
Reality Shows
- Casa dos SegredosSecret Story 2010 (Portugal)Secret Story 2010 was the first season of the Portuguese version of the reality show Secret Story, based on the original French version. The series started on October 3, 2010 and the finale was on December 31, which took place on Campo Pequeno, Lisbon. It aired on TVI and was produced by Endemol...
(Secret Story) - Perdidos na Tribo (Lost in the tribe)
Sports
- Liga ZON Sagres
- UEFA Euro 2012
- UEFA Champions LeagueUEFA Champions LeagueThe UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
(From 2012-2013 to 2014-2015)
Other
- Sunday Eucharist and 8° Dia (8th Day) - Sunday Christian Catholic mass and religious show broadcasted on Sundays, before the lunchtime news block.
- Cartaz das Artes (Arts' Poster) - weekly cultural agenda show, displayed in the first hours of Friday, hosted by João Paulo Sacadura.
- deLUXe - weekly gossip and glamour magazine, exhibited Sunday morning at more and less 11:30 a. m., hosted by Rita Seguro.
- EuromilhõesEuroMillionsEuroMillions is a transnational lottery, launched on 7 February 2004 by France's Française des Jeux, Spain's Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, and the United Kingdom's Camelot. The first draw was held on Friday 13 February 2004 in Paris...
- the draw of the lottery that gives the name to the show, broadcasted on Fridays after the 8:00 p. m. news, presented by Marisa Cruz.