Sociedade Independente de Comunicação

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SIC
SIC Portugal.png
Launched 6 October 1992
Owned by Impresa
Picture format Resolution:
576i (PAL)
Aspect Ratio:
4:3
Audience share 23.0% (Jan '12, [1])
Slogan "20 anos, crescemos juntos!!" (English: 20 years, we grow together!)
"A SIC mais perto de si." (English: SIC is closer to you.")
Country Portugal
Broadcast area Portugal
Headquarters Carnaxide (Oeiras)
Website sic.pt/
Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue Channel 3 (Until 2012)
Digital Channel 3 (Channel 13 in Azores and Madeira
Satellite
ZON TV Channel 3
meo satélite Channel 3
Cable
ZON TV Channel 3
Cabovisão Channel 3
IPTV
meo Channel 3
Optimus Clix TV Channel 3
Vodafone Casa TV Channel 3

SIC - Sociedade Independente de Comunicação ("Independent Communication Company") is a Portuguese television network and media company, which runs several television channels. Their flagship channel is the eponymous SIC, the third terrestrial television station in Portugal, launched on October 6, 1992. SIC is owned by Impresa, a Portuguese media conglomerate.

The station's acronym is often a source of amusement by English speaking celebrities interviewed by SIC. Danny DeVito once jokingly stated that he liked the acronym because he was "in the same line of work"[citation needed]

Other channels operated by SIC carried on satellite and cable TV in Portugal are:

Contents

[edit] History

The first logotype of SIC, used until 1997.

SIC was the first private television channel to operate in Portugal. In its first years of existence, SIC was owned by a consortium led by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, and backed by Controljornal (now Impresa Jornais, a holding that contains Impresa's newspapers and magazines), Impala Editores, BPI and Rede Globo. SIC was also the first TV channel to acquire huge audiences in just a few years of existence. The most watched programmes in Portugal belong to SIC, which reflect the creativity and sense of innovation of the channel.

SIC became widely known in Europe not only for achieving high viewing figures just three years after launching, but for also being the subject of an Arte documentary, "Cette Télévision est la Vôtre" (directed by Mariana Otero).

Nowadays, SIC has a programming largely based on talk shows, Brazilian soap operas produced by Globo, Portuguese soaps, game shows and sketch shows. Like the other major broadcaster, TVI, SIC airs international TV series such as Criminal Minds, the various CSI series and Entourage always after 1 a.m. SIC also relies largely on Globo productions, due to an exclusivity contract which obligates SIC to broadcast every soap opera produced. In-house productions include occasional reality shows and comedy sketch shows, which include Malucos do Riso, a long-running series with focus on dramatized jokes and Gato Fedorento.

[edit] Programs

[edit] Regular

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
06.00 Jornal de Síntese (News Summary) - breakfast news show
07.00 Edição da Manhã (Morning Edition) - breakfast news show
08.15 Rebelde Way - Portuguese Series for Teens
10.15 Querida Júlia (Dear Júlia) - talk show
13.00 Primeiro Jornal (1:00 pm News) - afternoon newscast
14.00 Perfeito Coração - Portuguese telenovela (soap opera)
15.30 Boa Tarde (Good Afternoon) - talk show
18.15 Morde e Assopra - Brazilian telenovela (soap opera)
20.00 Jornal da Noite (Evening News) - SIC's flagship newscast
21.45 Gosto Disto! - comedy show (reruns)
22.35 Rosa Fogo - Portuguese telenovela (soap opera)
23.40 Insensato Coração - Brazilian telenovela (soap opera)
00.40 various U.S. TV series / movies

[edit] Shows

  • Querida Júlia (Dear Júlia)
  • Boa Tarde (Good Afternoon)
  • Episódio Especial (Special Episode)
  • Fama Show (Fame Show)

[edit] Family Entertainment

[edit] Soap Operas

[edit] Portuguese Series

  • Rebelde Way
  • Lua Vermelha

[edit] Brazilian Soap Operas

[edit] Sport Shows

[edit] TV Series

[edit] News

[edit] SIC Kids

In 2006, started to broadcast the block "SIC Kids", broadcasting a few hours later the block "Disney Kids" (the featured, and still features, only Disney programming).

[edit] Children Television Retro

[edit] Live shows

  • Globos de Ouro (Golden Globes)
  • Parabéns, SIC (Congratulations, SIC) (airs when it's SIC's birthday)

[edit] Moving headquarters of TV newscast: SIC Matosinhos

On the Day of the nineteenth anniversary of the SIC, we proceeded to the change of venue information, in the old slaughterhouse Matosinhos, where in addition to the news, also issued in SIC Notícias, converging newsrooms of the media group Impresa, Journal Expresso, magazines Visão and Caras, the web portal AEIOU.pt and company of geolocation and digital content Infoportugal. [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ SIC took the nineteenth anniversary to launch new studies at Matosinhos (in portuguese) february 26, 2012

[edit] External links

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