ZON Lusomundo
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| Type | Subsidiary of ZON Multimédia |
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| Founded | 1953 |
| Headquarters | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Products | Cinema and Home video |
| Owner(s) | ZON Multimédia |
| Parent | ZON Multimédia |
| Website | [1] |
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 Portugues licensee of United International Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Miramax Films, DreamWorks SKG and Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment). In the 1980s Lusomundo started acquiring newspapers, including Comércio do Porto, Diário de Notícias and Jornal de Notícias. In the early 1990s it acquired TSF Rádio Notícias and minority stakes on TVI.
In 2000, Portugal Telecom 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 Controlinveste), 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.
In 2007, PT Multimedia separated from PT Comunicações and became ZON Multimédia and this corporation was renamed ZON Lusomundo.
