Everyone wants TVI’s owner, but what does Media Capital have?
It spent years up for sale, gained a shareholder this year and is once again the target of a takeover bid. Along the way, it wins back the presenter Cristina Ferreira from a competitor. What is going on with TVI’s owner?
Media Capital is one of the largest Portuguese media groups. It controls the free-to-air station TVI, which is on the Digital Terrestrial Television (TDT) line-up, available free of charge to everyone in Portugal, as well as all the channels under this brand carried on the pay-TV platforms, including the news channel TVI24.
But Media Capital’s reach goes far beyond TVI. The group also controls Rádio Comercial, the ratings leader, as well as the radio stations M80, Cidade, Smooth FM and Vodafone FM.
AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 17 August 2020.