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| Country | Portugal |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Portugal Angola Mozambique |
| Headquarters | Matosinhos |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | FC Porto |
| History | |
| Launched | 29 September 2006 |
| Links | |
| Website | portocanal |
Porto Canal is a Portuguese pay television channel broadcasting from northern Portugal based in Matosinhos. Launched on 29 September 2006, it replaced former NTV (from Porto TV, based in Vila Nova de Gaia) which transformed into RTPN, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa's news channel.
In July 2010, Porto Canal launched three new delegations in Mirandela, Arcos de Valdevez and Penafiel, and in the beginning of 2011, three more in Guimarães, Braga and Vila Real.[1]
In March 2011, Porto Canal announced a partnership with Portuguese sports club F.C. Porto. In August 2011, F.C. Porto assumed the management of Porto Canal, launching two new F.C. Porto related programs, Flash Porto and Somos Porto.[2] Porto Canal also broadcasts live full matches of the F.C. Porto teams of football (only FC Porto B home games), basketball, handball and roller hockey.
In June 2019, FC Porto was sentenced to pay a €2 million fine for publishing and manipulating illegally obtained Benfica emails on Porto Canal.[3] Related to that, in June 2023, the club's director of communication, Francisco J. Marques, was sentenced to a ten-month suspended prison sentence for aggravated violation of private correspondence or telecommunications and to a one-year and two months suspended prison sentence for offense to a collective person. Porto Canal's contents director, Diogo Faria, received a nine-month suspended prison sentence for violation of private correspondence or telecommunications. Both persons were also sentenced to pay a €10,000 compensation to Luís Filipe Vieira. Júlio Magalhães, the channel's former director, was abolved of all accusations.[4][5]
- ^ "Porto Canal vai passar a ser o Canal do Norte" (in Portuguese). Jornal de Notícias. 2 February 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Nem tudo é azul e branco no canal de TV do FC Porto" (in Portuguese). Público. 2 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Leia a sentença que condenou o FC Porto no caso dos emails" [Read the sentence that sentenced FC Porto in the emails case]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 8 June 2019. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ "Caso dos emails: Francisco J. Marques condenado a um ano e 10 meses de prisão com pena suspensa" [Emails case: Francisco J. Marques sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison with suspended sentence]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 12 June 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
- ^ "Francisco J. Marques condenado a um ano e 10 meses por divulgação de emails do Benfica" [Francisco J. Marques sentenced to one year and 10 months for disdissemination of Benfica emails]. SAPO Desporto (in Portuguese). 12 June 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.