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ZON Multimédia is a Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 media
Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
 holding
Holding

The holding is a court's determination of a matter of law based on the issue presented in the particular legal case. In other words: under this law, with these facts, this result. See ratio decidendi....
 company, whose main assets include a satellite
Satellite television

Satellite television is television delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by a satellite dish and set-top box. In many areas of the world it provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial television or cable television providers....
, cable operator
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 and ISP (TV Cabo) and a movie distributor (Lusomundo
Lusomundo

Lusomundo is a Portugal integrated media corporation founded in 1953, which has major interests in movie distribution, cinema teathers and media assets....
) and a virtual carrier of mobile phone services. Its services include cable television
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
, cable internet
Cable internet

In telecommunications, cable Internet is a form of broadband Internet access that uses the cable television infrastructure. Like digital subscriber lines and Fiber to the premises, cable Internet bridges the Last mile from the Internet service provider to the subscriber....
 and VOIP. ZON Multimédia (formerly PT Multimédia) is the spun-off media arm of Portugal Telecom
Portugal Telecom

Portugal Telecom is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal. Although it operates mainly in Portugal and Brazil, it has also a significant presence in Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, East Timor, Angola, Kenya, the People's Republic of China, and S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe....
. ZON Multimédia produces several premium channels
Pay TV

Pay television or premium television refers to Subscription business model-based television services, usually provided by both Analog transmission and Digital terrestrial television Cable television and Satellite television, but also increasingly by Digital terrestrial television methods....
 for the TV Cabo platform, which include SportTV
Sport TV

This article is about the Portuguese sports network. For the similarly named and themed network in Brazil, see SporTV.Sport TV is the brand name for a group of three Portugal sports-oriented television channels....
 (joint-venture with Controlinveste
Controlinveste

Controlinveste is a Portugal Mass media holding company founded and controlled by Portuguese sports mogul Joaquim Oliveira. Controlinveste was founded in 2005 after the amalgamation of Lusomundo Media and Olivedesportos....
), TVCine
TVCine

TVCine is a Portugal premium television brand used on four movie channels, operated by ZON Multim?dia. They showcase recent movies and premieres from all the major studios, as well as comedy, action, classic and old movies....
, MOV
MOV (TV channel)

MOV is a Portugal television channel operated by ZON Multim?dia, the spun-off media arm of Portugal Telecom. MOV was launched at December 1, 2007 on the PT Multim?dia-owned TV Cabo cable operator....
 and a shareholding on SIC Notícias
SIC Notícias

SIC Not?cias is the cable channel news channel of the Portuguese language television network SIC and the second thematic channel of the station....
.






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ZON Multimédia is a Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 media
Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
 holding
Holding

The holding is a court's determination of a matter of law based on the issue presented in the particular legal case. In other words: under this law, with these facts, this result. See ratio decidendi....
 company, whose main assets include a satellite
Satellite television

Satellite television is television delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by a satellite dish and set-top box. In many areas of the world it provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial television or cable television providers....
, cable operator
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 and ISP (TV Cabo) and a movie distributor (Lusomundo
Lusomundo

Lusomundo is a Portugal integrated media corporation founded in 1953, which has major interests in movie distribution, cinema teathers and media assets....
) and a virtual carrier of mobile phone services. Its services include cable television
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
, cable internet
Cable internet

In telecommunications, cable Internet is a form of broadband Internet access that uses the cable television infrastructure. Like digital subscriber lines and Fiber to the premises, cable Internet bridges the Last mile from the Internet service provider to the subscriber....
 and VOIP. ZON Multimédia (formerly PT Multimédia) is the spun-off media arm of Portugal Telecom
Portugal Telecom

Portugal Telecom is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal. Although it operates mainly in Portugal and Brazil, it has also a significant presence in Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, East Timor, Angola, Kenya, the People's Republic of China, and S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe....
. ZON Multimédia produces several premium channels
Pay TV

Pay television or premium television refers to Subscription business model-based television services, usually provided by both Analog transmission and Digital terrestrial television Cable television and Satellite television, but also increasingly by Digital terrestrial television methods....
 for the TV Cabo platform, which include SportTV
Sport TV

This article is about the Portuguese sports network. For the similarly named and themed network in Brazil, see SporTV.Sport TV is the brand name for a group of three Portugal sports-oriented television channels....
 (joint-venture with Controlinveste
Controlinveste

Controlinveste is a Portugal Mass media holding company founded and controlled by Portuguese sports mogul Joaquim Oliveira. Controlinveste was founded in 2005 after the amalgamation of Lusomundo Media and Olivedesportos....
), TVCine
TVCine

TVCine is a Portugal premium television brand used on four movie channels, operated by ZON Multim?dia. They showcase recent movies and premieres from all the major studios, as well as comedy, action, classic and old movies....
, MOV
MOV (TV channel)

MOV is a Portugal television channel operated by ZON Multim?dia, the spun-off media arm of Portugal Telecom. MOV was launched at December 1, 2007 on the PT Multim?dia-owned TV Cabo cable operator....
 and a shareholding on SIC Notícias
SIC Notícias

SIC Not?cias is the cable channel news channel of the Portuguese language television network SIC and the second thematic channel of the station....
. Lusomundo is also the home-video distributor of Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company:Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was found as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions....
 and Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
 releases in the Portuguese market, alongside of launching several independent and European titles.

TV Cabo was founded in 1994, and was the second cable operator to be founded in Portugal (the first was the regional Bragatel, which was acquired by TV Cabo in 2007). TV Cabo is the sole cable provider in many areas of the country, which leads to its monopolistic
Monopoly

In economics, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it....
 position.

This company might be considered a Portuguese dot com. In the PT Multimédia days, it brought Portugal Telecom
Portugal Telecom

Portugal Telecom is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal. Although it operates mainly in Portugal and Brazil, it has also a significant presence in Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, East Timor, Angola, Kenya, the People's Republic of China, and S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe....
 SAPO (a successful web portal and search engine, sold to its parent company in 2005), Lusomundo
Lusomundo

Lusomundo is a Portugal integrated media corporation founded in 1953, which has major interests in movie distribution, cinema teathers and media assets....
 (a successful movie distribuitor, movie theater
Movie theater

A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing film ....
 operator included in the spun-off company and, formerly, the owner of the Diário de Notícias
Diário de Notícias

Di?rio de Not?cias is a Portuguese language daily newspaper, founded in Lisbon, on December 29, 1864 by Tom?s Quintino Antunes and Eduardo Coelho....
 newspaper and the TSF
TSF (radio)

TSF is a Portugal radio station headquartered in Lisbon. It is a news focused radio station. It was legally founded in 1989, but its first emission was in February 29, 1988....
 radio, which were sold to Controlinveste the same year as SAPO was sold) and several TV channels such as Sport TV
Sport TV

This article is about the Portuguese sports network. For the similarly named and themed network in Brazil, see SporTV.Sport TV is the brand name for a group of three Portugal sports-oriented television channels....
, CNL
CNL

CNL can refer to:* The National Literature Centre , the national literary archive of Luxembourg* The Northern Lighthouse Board, now known as the Northern Lighthouse Board...
 (now SIC Notícias
SIC Notícias

SIC Not?cias is the cable channel news channel of the Portuguese language television network SIC and the second thematic channel of the station....
) and TVCine
TVCine

TVCine is a Portugal premium television brand used on four movie channels, operated by ZON Multim?dia. They showcase recent movies and premieres from all the major studios, as well as comedy, action, classic and old movies....
 (MOV
MOV

MOV may refer to:* MOV , a mnemonic for the copying of data from one location to another in the X86 assembly language* .mov, file extension for the QuickTime multimedia file format...
 was only created after the spin-off).

On January 17 2008, TV Cabo announced it will acquire TVTEL
TVTEL

TVTEL is a Portugal digital television satellite and cable Pay TV service provider. The satellite service started on June 26, 2007, and it is currently on the Eurobird 9 satellite, broadcasting FTA and Conax-encrypted channels for the entire Europe....
, its main competitor in both cable and satellite broadcasting in Porto region. Thus, TV Cabo is strengthening its position due to the appearance of a new significant rival, meo
Meo (IPTV)

meo is the commercial name of a TV subscription service provided by Portugal Telecom. The service can be delivered either through IPTV or Satellite link and is available throughout Portugal....
 from Portugal Telecom
Portugal Telecom

Portugal Telecom is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal. Although it operates mainly in Portugal and Brazil, it has also a significant presence in Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, East Timor, Angola, Kenya, the People's Republic of China, and S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe....
, using IPTV
IPTV

IPTV is a system where a digital television service is delivered using Internet Protocol over a network infrastructure, which may include delivery by a broadband connection....
 and satellite broadcasting systems, and still it is one cable operator ahead (Cabovisão
Cabovisão

Cabovis?o it's a private Portugal telecommunications operator , founded in September 27th of 1993, and in 1995 obtains the licences to start operating....
) of being the sole cable television provider in Portugal. On September 29 2008, Zon Multimédia announced the new mobile product Zon Mobile (MVNO), being the first real quad play Operator in Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
.

On November, 2008, ZON
Zon

Zon is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Margonin, within Chodziez County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Margonin, south-east of Chodziez, and north of the regional capital Poznan....
 officially announced that are going to run to the contest for the fifth channel that will be present at the same time the Digital Terrestrial Television
Digital terrestrial television

Digital Terrestrial Television is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional Antenna instead of a satellite dish or cable connection....
 is going to be introduced in Portugal.

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