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Media Capital (MC) is a Portuguese media corporation founded in 1992 and the owner of TVI, the most watched TV channel in Portugal. MC also owns MCM (Media Capital Multimedia) which includes IOL, Plural Entertainment, Farol and Castello Lopes Multimedia.


History

Media Capital group was established as a publisher of print media in 1992. In the following years, the Group acquired a number of publications that included the weekly newspaper that covered major political and business news “O Independente”. In 1997 the group expanded its activity with the acquisition of two radios: Rádio Comercial and Nostalgia. It is in 1998 that the group acquires 30% of TVI and in 2000 creates its internet business: IOL. The acquisition of NBP in 2001 consolidated the Group’s position in the television market as a whole, with a strong investment on the production of fictional contents in Portuguese. In 2003, Media Capital entered the movie distribution business (activity discontinued in the end of 2011) and, after acquiring Farol Música, became one of the major players in the music editing and record distribution business in Portugal. The year of 2004 was marked by the preparation of the company for public quotation and subsequent listing of the company’s shares on Euronext Lisbon (closed on March 30, 2004). In November 2005, Grupo Prisa became the largest shareholder of Grupo Media Capital. In 2008 Media Capital sold its press business unit to Progresa (also owned by Grupo Prisa) and, at the end of the year, acquired Plural Espanha that, along with NBP, originated Plural Entertainment, one of the major content producers in Portuguese and Spanish, thus reinforcing its investment in the production and distribution of differentiated quality contents. In 2020, Prisa sells 30,22% of its participation to Mário Ferreira’s Pluris Investments for 10,5 million. Later that year, Prisa Group announces the selling of the rest of the company leaving MC. In 2021, MC and
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signed an agreement that leads to the creation of CNN Portugal. In 2022, MC sold all its radios (Rádio Comercial, M80, Cidade FM, Smooth FM and Vodafone FM) for 69,6 million to
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. The main focus is now on the TV Broadcast market. This operation would reduce the MC debt from 79,9M to 21,2M and even a profit of 36,7M after a loss of 4,1M in the previous year.


Businesses

Media Capital operates in several areas of media and advertising.


Broadcasting

* TVI, a television broadcaster. It was totally acquired by Media Capital in 1998. *
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( brand under license from
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and CNN Global) *
V+ TVI V+ TVI, also known as V+, formerly TVI Ficção, is a Portuguese basic fiber and satellite television channel. It is owned by TVI. The channel broadcasts TVI originals, including telenovelas, sitcoms and series. It also broadcast a celebrity ...
*TVI Reality *
TVI Internacional TVI Internacional is the international television service of TVI. It is available in Europe, Africa, North America and Oceania. Programming is taken from the main channel as well as TVI 24 and original programming. As a leading channel producin ...
*
TVI África TVI África was a Portuguese television station owned and operated by Televisão Independente TVI - initialism for Televisão Independente ("Independent Television") - is Portugal's fourth terrestrial television channel, launched in 1993. I ...


Magazines

*Maisfutebol (
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online magazine)


Internet

* IOL (Portugal), a multimedia content provider (also an
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previously).


Former units


Radio

Media Capital Rádios, a radio broadcaster, which includes several radio stations (sold to
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in February 2022): * Rádio Comercial - national net of broadcasters: **88.1 FM - Fóia (Monchique) → 10 kW **88.7 FM - Lamego (Viseu) → 5 kW **88.9 FM - Minhéu (Vila Real) → 10 kW **89.0 FM - Leiria - Maunça → 1 kW **89.3 FM - Esposende (Braga) → 0,4 kW **90.8 FM - Lousã (Coimbra) → 44 kW **91.9 FM - Bornes Mountains → 10 kW **92.0 FM - Mendro Mountains (Beja district - also serving Évora's district) → 50 kW **92.2 FM - Oliveirinha (Aveiro) → 0,2 kW **93.9 FM - Samil - Bragança → 10 kW **94.3 FM - Viseu → 0,5 kW *96.1 FM - Faro - São Miguel/Goldra → 10 kW *96.1 FM - Guarda/P. Vento → 10 kW *96.8 FM - Grândola → 10 kW *97.4 FM - Lisboa (Monsanto Forest Park) → 44 kW *97.7 FM - Porto (Monte da Virgem) → 44 kW *98.2 FM - Fundão (Gardunha Mountains) → 10 kW *98.5 FM - Sintra → 0,3 kW *98.9 FM - Portalegre (Marada Alta Mountains) → 10 kW *99.0 FM - Valença do Minho - Monte do Faro → 10 kW *99.2 FM - Braga (Sameiro) → 5 kW *99.8 FM - Montejunto Mountains → 10 kW *103.1 FM - Vouzela (Pena Hill) → 0,2 kW * Cidade FM - ten local radio stations: **91.6 FM - Lisboa → 5 kW **97.2 FM - Redondo → 0.5 kW **99.3 FM - Alcanena → 2 kW **99.7 FM - Penacova (Coimbra) → 1 kW **99.7 FM - Loulé (Faro district) → 2 kW *106.2 FM - Montijo → 1 kW *101.0 FM - Vale de Cambra (Aveiro) → 0.5 kW *102.8 FM - Viseu → 2 kW *104.4 FM - Braga (Amares) 104.4 FM → 1 kW *107.2 FM - Vila Nova de Gaia - Porto → 0.5 kW * M80 Radio **90.0 - Matosinhos (Porto) **93.0 - Leiria **95.6 - Penalva do Castelo (Viseu) **96.4 - Santarém **98.4 - Coimbra **94.4 FM - Aveiro **97.4 FM - Vila Real *104.3 - Lisbon and Setúbal *106.1 - Faro *106.4 - Beja and Évora *106.7 - Portalegre *107.1 - Portimão *107.5 - Grândola / Santiago do Cacém *103.8 - Braga and Fafe * Vodafone FM **107.2 - Lisbon Metro Area **103.0 - Coimbra & Centre region **94.3 - Porto Metro Area * Smooth FM **89.5 - Matosinhos - Porto **92.8 - Figueiró dos Vinhos (Coimbra) **96.6 - Lisbon **97.7 - Santarém **103.0 - Barreiro


Magazines

* Media Capital Edições, a magazine publisher: ** Lux Magazine (women's magazine) ** Maxmen (Portuguese version of
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men's magazine) ** Portugal Diário (news magazine) ** Agência Financeira (financial magazine)


Shut down stations

* Best Rock FM **89.5 FM - Valongo **101.1 FM - Moita * Star FM **Benavente (Belmonte) 1035 AM **96.6 FM - Lisboa **105.8 FM - Porto **96.8 FM - Sabugal *103.0 FM - Coimbra and Cantanhede *97.7 FM - Santarem *104.4 FM - Manteigas


Ownership

As of 31st of December, Media Capital states that "the company has the following shareholders helding a participation of sharecapital and voting rights equal or superior than 5%": Pluris Investments, S.A. (37,05%), Triun, SGPS, S.A. (23%), Biz Partners (11.9725%), CIN – Corporação Industrial do Norte, S.A. (11.20%) and Zenithodyssey, Lda. (10%).


References


External links


Media Capital
- official website {{Portuguese television stations Companies listed on Euronext Lisbon Mass media companies of Portugal TVI Reality Mass media companies established in 1992 1992 establishments in Portugal