RTP Internacional

Portuguese international television channel

Television channel

RTP Internacional

Country| Portugal
Broadcast area| Europe
North America
South America
Australia
Asia
Middle East
Africa
Programming
Picture format| 576i (16:9 SDTV)
Ownership
Owner| Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Sister channels| RTP1
RTP2
RTP3
RTP Desporto
RTP Memória
RTP Açores
RTP Madeira
RTP África
History
Launched| 10 June 1992; 32 years ago (1992-06-10)
Links
Website| RTPi
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television (Andorra)| Channel 28
Streaming media
RTP Play| RTP Internacional

RTP Internacional (RTPi) is a Portuguese free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). It is the company's international television service, and is known for broadcasting a mix of programming from other RTP's channels, as well as original productions made for the channel.

The channel is available on several satellites in the clear, on a number of subscription television operators and terrestrially in Macao (relayed by Canal Macau)[1] and East Timor (relayed by RTTL), by means of timeshares with other channels.

## History

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The former RTP International logo.

Before the appearance of the channel, RTP signed a contract with Intelsat to provide a program for the Portuguese diaspora in the United States, Canada and Bermuda, Portugal Magazine, created in 1988 with assistance from RTP's facilities in Oporto. Outside of the intended target countries, the program was sent by video to other parts of the world.[2]

RTP Internacional was first planned in early 1992 by José Eduardo Moniz as part of the strategic plan for the 35th anniversary of RTP's first broadcast.[3] The channel was formally created on 21 February 1992, under the management of journalist Afonso Rato, who demanded "active television" for the Portuguese diaspora.[4] Productions from the then-upcoming private channels SIC and TVI were blocked weeks after the channel's launch.[5]

It first started broadcasting via satellite in Europe on 10 June 1992 (Portugal Day), with a visit from then-prime minister Cavaco Silva. The channel, the fifth RTP channel overall to be launched, initially broadcast 39 hours a week (5 hours on weekdays, 7 on Saturdays and 9 on Sundays over two satellites, Eutelsat (Ku band) in Europe and Statsionar-12 (Intersputnik, C-band), enabling the channel's reach to extend to Africa and parts of Asia, including Goa and Macau. On 19 December the channel expanded to North America by means of the Galaxy-6 satellite.[4] The aim of the new channel was to "accentuate the penetration of the Portuguese language and culture and that, taking advantage of technological potential that was unthinkable years ago, will bring us all closer together, making our world smaller". The public presentation took place in Lisbon a week ahead of the launch of the service, in a project that took four months to create. On the eve of the launch, José Eduardo Moniz claimed that the service, thanks to a growing number of national output on the group of the four RTP channels (2 national and 2 regional) showed the desire of the Portuguese diaspora to provide necessary communication. Before, RTP tried - unsuccessfully - to beam its four channels by satellite to Africa, which was made impossible due to technological issues.[6] It soon expanded into Africa, where it reached audiences in Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as Canada, United States, Brazil and into Asia. It is also available on the Internet, via a subscription to the service JumpTV or with Octoshape.

Terrestrial broadcasts started in East Timor in January 1996. The launch of the service began with a political message from António Guterres and a representative of the Timorese independence movement. The RTP Internacional relay caused interest from RCTI to compete with the station as long as RTP would begin broadcasting content in English, which was never achieved.[7]

By 1997, the channel was made available to at least 8.5 million subscriber homes, surpassing the one million benchmark in countries with high Portuguese immigration: France, Switzerland, the United States and Brazil. As that year was also its fifth anniversary, the channel celebrated with a week of special programming.[8] A special program for the fifth anniversary of the channel, Aqui Tão Perto: Portugal - Camões - Comunidades was broadcast, simultaneously with RTP2, for a period of approximately fourteen hours. The diaspora groups are connected via satellite in 30-minute slots and featured a report about the Portuguese diaspora in the particular country on those slots. The slots were given to the following countries, all of them with significant numbers of Portuguese diaspora: the United States, Canada, Venezuela, South Africa, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France and Luxembourg.[9]

On 7 January 1998, RTPi ceased terrestrial broadcasting to Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, and was replaced by a new separate service, called RTP África, which was available as a terrestrial TV service in some countries, as well as being available via satellite, but RTPi continues to broadcast in Angola and Mozambique. RTPi is carried by satellite television services across Africa in various countries such as South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

In March 2005 it began 'time-shifting' its programming, with three separate schedules for the Americas, Europe, and Asia, so that viewers in different time zones could watch programmes at more convenient times.

## Distribution

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### Satellite

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RTP Internacional is available across all of North America for free via Galaxy 19 and Intelsat 805.[10]

### Subscription television

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It is also available as a pay service via Dish Network in the United States and Rogers Cable and NexTV (IPTV Platform) in Canada.

For years, the channel was carried in Australia and New Zealand via UBI World TV. In 2013, RTP Internacional returned to these countries via Luso Vision, which focuses on Portuguese, Brazilian and Chilean programming.

### Terrestrial television

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RTPi programming is also retransmitted by Teledifusão de Macau (TDM) in Macao, through its Portuguese-language TV channel Canal Macau, and in East Timor (Timor Leste) by Radio e Televisão Timor Leste (RTTL), together with local broadcasts.

## Controversies

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In 2017, the TV and radio service – RTP Internacional and RDP, respectively – of RTP, as well as the Portuguese news agency Lusa, were suspended from operating in Guinea-Bissau. The measure was announced by Bissau-Guinean minister for the media, Vítor Pereira. He justified the decision with end of the contracts with RTP and Lusa. The Portuguese government considered the decision to be "unacceptable" and an "attack on freedom of expression,[11] while Reporters Without Borders condemned that same decision. Lusa was eventually allowed to operate in the country, but RTP Internacional and RDP were not.[12]

## References

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1. ^ "TDM". www.tdm.com.mo. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
2. ^ "Produção Nacional, uma aposta ganha". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
3. ^ "RTP: uma antena para o mundo". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
4. ^ a b "RTP: uma antena para o mundo". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
5. ^ "PRIVATE TV NOT ON RTPi". The Anglo-Portuguese News. 2 July 1992.
6. ^ "RTP: uma antena para o mundo". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
7. ^ "Jakarta TV station to match Portuguese coverage in E. Timor". The Straits Times. 10 February 1996. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
8. ^ "RTP África e Expo'98 no caminho das novas tecnologias". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
9. ^ "RTP África e Expo'98 no caminho das novas tecnologias". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
10. ^ "Intelsat 805". www.lyngsat.com. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
11. ^ "RTP é suspensa na Guiné-Bissau | A Televisão". A Televisão (in European Portuguese). 1 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
12. ^ Group, Global Media (4 July 2017). "Repórteres Sem Fronteiras condena suspensão da RTP e RDP na Guiné-Bissau". O Jogo (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 19 July 2017. `{{cite news}}`: `|last=` has generic name (help)

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