The current CEO of TVI, Nuno Santos, will be responsible for CNN Portugal, the channel that will replace TVI24 and the launch of which is scheduled for the end of this year. The news was prepared by a specialized newspaper. Media and advertising and confirmed by the PUBLIC. However, the decision to leave Nuno Santos as CEO of TVI has not yet been made. the feature it grew to last July…
PÚBLICO contacted Nuno Santos for comment. TVI declined to name names. The management adviser only replied that “at the right time, Media Capital will have the opportunity to present the whole CNN Portugal operation”, Including channel direction, team composition and future programming.
Nuno Santos joined TVI last January.coming from the 11th channel of the Portuguese Football Federation to take over the functions of the program director. In mid-July, he took over as CEO – the day before the announcement that Christina Ferreira was leaving SIC. and back to Queluz station as director of entertainment and fiction (other than director and shareholder)… The journalist who belonged to the main core of SIC started in 2001 as director of SIC Notícias, which was then classified as Portuguese by CNN, as it was the first national news channel to broadcast 24 hours a day. –and then worked at RTP, where he was also CIO and Director of Programs and Content.
At the end of May this year, Mario Ferreira announced live Newspaper 8 that TVI has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Turner Europa Group on the licensing agreement and establishment of CNN Portugal. “The channel will program and operate Media Capital under a CNN license, which will also provide training, consulting and access to content for the entire CNN portfolio,” the Securities Market Commission told Media Capital. The launch of the channel is subject to the permission of the media regulator for rebranding TVI24, a process in which a Queluz station is already working with a regulator media… It will be CNN’s second Portuguese-speaking channel since the launch of CNN Brasil on March 15 last year.
For the channel to become viable, the station will have to build a new information studio, as TVI24 currently uses the same space as TVI’s lunch and evening news broadcasts. It is this investment that will dictate the date when CNN Portugal can air. TVI will also recruit journalists, Mario Ferreira said at the time, what will be done with invitations to participants and by nominating candidates.
TVI24 currently has an audience share of 1.4%, positioning itself on national news channels almost half a point ahead of RTP3, but one point behind SIC Notícias and four below CMTV.
