SPT TV is a

Portuguese language Portuguese ( or ) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tom� ...

Television channel in the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

that is owned by Seabra Portuguese Television. The channel launched in 1986 (1987 according to some sources), by initiative of Luso-American businessmen and is available via cable and satellite. It is the first Portuguese-language television channel based in the US and features the best programming from Portugal as well as local programming created especially for the Portuguese diaspora in the US. In January 2007, SPT TV launched

SIC Notícias SIC Notícias () is the cable news channel of the Portuguese television network SIC (''Sociedade Independente de Comunicação'') and the second thematic channel of the station. It is available on basic cable and satellite. It replaced CNL (''C ...

in North America, in partnership with

SIC The Latin adverb ''sic'' (; ''thus'', ''so'', and ''in this manner'') inserted after a quotation indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated as found in the source text, including erroneous, archaic, or unusual spelling ...

. It is currently available on

Dish Network DISH Network L.L.C., often referred to as DISH, an abbreviation for Digital Sky Highway, is an American provider of satellite television and IPTV services and wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation. The company was originally establ ...

and certain cable companies. At the end of 1998, the channel stil had an agreement with RTP, and delivered its programming to 130,000 viewers in 14 locations across New Jersey (planning to launch in 29 more locations in 1999), for an average amount of 11 hours of programming a day. The station was linked to the Seabra Group publication The Portuguese Post. SPT TV features programming from

, a private network in Portugal. Programming includes news, entertainment, talk-shows, comedies, reality shows, sports, among other genres. When it was RTP-USA, it also carried programming for the Brazilian diaspora, such as the newscast Canal Brazil News Network modelled after Globo's Jornal Nacional. The official website ceased operation completely somewhere between January and March 2014 according to the available sources at the

Wayback Machine The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in ...

on the Internet Archive, before launching a new website in 2021.

Sport TV Americas

In August 2010, SPT TV partnered up with Portuguese Sports broadcaster

Sport TV Sport TV is a Portuguese sports-oriented premium cable and satellite television network with seven premium channels in Portugal, one sports news channel and one channel in Portuguese-speaking Africa. The first channel, then only known as Sport ...

to launch ''Sport TV Americas'', a North American version of the Portuguese sports service. The channel features exclusive coverage of Liga ZON Sagres with 5 live matches every weekend as well as coverage of the Portuguese second division, the League Cup and Portuguese Cup. On June 5, 2013, for reasons exclusively imputable to RTP - USA Inc. dba SPT (Seabra Portuguese Television), SPORT TV Portugal S.A. was forced to restrain the access to the respective signal.

References

External links

* {{official website Foreign-language television stations in the United States Portuguese-language mass media in the United States Portuguese-language television stations Television channels and stations established in 1986 Portuguese-language television in the United States