NOS Audiovisuais (formerly ZON Lusomundo) is a Portuguese integrated media corporation founded in 1953, which has major interests in movie distribution, cinema theaters and media assets.
It was founded with the purpose of
movie distribution, and had a very close relation with the biggest studios (it is currently the Portuguese licensee of
United International Pictures
United International Pictures (UIP) is a joint venture of Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures that distributes their films outside the United States and Canada. UIP also had international distribution rights to certain Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M ...
,
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. (doing business as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company. The division handles the distribution of Disney's films, television series, a ...
,
Warner Home Video
Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, Inc. (doing business as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment; formerly known as Warner Home Video and WCI Home Video and sometimes credited as Warner Home Entertainment) is the American home video distribution ...
,
Miramax Films
Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American independent film and television production and distribution company owned by beIN Media Group and Paramount Global. Based in Los Angeles, California, it was founded on December 19, ...
and
DreamWorks SKG). In the 1980s Lusomundo started acquiring newspapers, including ''
Comércio do Porto'', ''
Diário de Notícias
() is a Portuguese weekly newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal. Established since 1864, the paper is considered a newspaper of record for Portugal.
History and profile
''Diário de Notícias'' was first published in Lisbon on 29 December 1 ...
'' and ''
Jornal de Notícias
(; ; shortened to JN) is a Portuguese daily national newspaper, one of the oldest in Portugal.
History and profile
''JN'' was founded in Porto and was first published on 21 June 1888. It was one of two Portuguese newspapers published in Angol ...
''. In the early 1990s, it acquired TSF Rádio Notícias and minority stakes of
TVI.
In 2000,
PT Multimédia made a successful takeover of Lusomundo.
Since then, Lusomundo was split into two companies with different owners:
*Lusomundo Audiovisuais, which controls the cinema and movie distribution assets
*Lusomundo Media (now owned by
Global Media Group
Global Media Group (called Global Media and formerly named Controlinveste Media and Lusomundo Media) is a Portuguese media holding company founded by Portuguese sports mogul and FC Porto SAD's shareholder Joaquim Oliveira.
History and profile
...
), which controls other media assets
Until 2007, the Lusomundo brand was used on four premium subscription television movie channels. Nowadays these channels are named
TVCine TVCine is a Portugal, Portuguese premium television brand used on four movie channels, operated by NOS (Portuguese media company), NOS. They showcase recent movies and premieres from all the major studios, as well as comedy, action, classic and old ...
.
In 2007, PT Multimedia separated from PT Comunicações and became ZON Multimédia and this corporation was renamed ZON Lusomundo, in May 2014 it was renamed NOS, officially retiring the 61-year-old Lusomundo name.
References
External links
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Mass media companies of Portugal
Cinema chains in Portugal
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