Porto Canal

Porto Canal

Country	Portugal
Headquarters	Matosinhos
Ownership
Owner	Mediapro (FC Porto)

Porto Canal is a private Regional television station for Northern Portugal. It is a basic cable television channel only in Littoral Northern Portugal and a digital cable and satellite television in inland Northern Portugal and elsewhere. It is based in Matosinhos. Launched on September 29, 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.

On 4 March 2011, Porto Canal announced a partnership with Portuguese sports club F.C. Porto. On 1 August 2011, F.C. Porto assumed the management of Porto Canal, launching two new F.C. Porto related programs, Flash Porto and Somos Porto. 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.

Porto Canal is available in the cable and satellite package of NOS, Meo and Cabovisão, and on the IPTV package of Vodafone TV Net Voz.

Programs

In terms of content the channel airs generalist and regional programming. It focuses primarily on news of the northern region of Portugal, having also many diverse programs.

Since the partnership with FC Porto, it has programs like Flash Porto or 45 Minutos à Porto that broadcast club-related news and information.

Major programs (non-sports)

• À Conversa com Ricardo Couto
• Caminhos da História
• Cinema Batalha
• Clube de Cozinheiros
• Consultório
• Destino Norte
• Jornal Diário
• Mentes que Brilham
• Net Diário
• Notícias às 17
• Notícias às 18

• Notícias às 19
• Pólo Norte
• Parlamento da Região
• Ponto Cardeais
• Porto Alive!
• Radioativo
• Saúde no Tacho
• Territórios
• Testemunho Directo
• Último Jornal
• Valter Hugo Mãe

Sports programs (FC Porto)

• Azul e Branco
• Cadeira de Sonho
• Especial Porto
• Dragão Caixa
• Dragon Force

• Flash Porto
• Invictos
• Portistas pelo Mundo
• Somos Porto
• 45 Minutos à Porto

Personnel of Porto Canal

• Director-General
  • Júlio Magalhães
• Director of information and programming
  • Domingos de Andrade
• Director of FC Porto contents
  • Rui Cerqueira
• Managing editor
  • Vanda Balieiro
• Program coordinator
  • Mafalda Campos
• Production coordinator
  • Fátima Ribeiro de Almeida
• Editors
  • Ana Rita Basto
  • Ana Guedes Rodrigues
  • Cláudia Fonseca
  • Pedro Carvalho da Silva
  • Carla Ascenção
• Online editor
  • André Arantes
• Lisbon Correspondent
  • Salomé Pinto