RTP Internacional
16:9 SDTV) | |
Ownership | |
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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 |
Links | |
Website | RTPi |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital terrestrial television (Andorra) | Channel 28 |
Streaming media | |
RTP Play | RTP Internacional |
RTP Internacional (RTPi) is a Portuguese
The channel is available on several satellites in the clear, on a number of subscription television operators and terrestrially in
History
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.[1] The channel was formally created on February 21, 1992, under the management of journalist Afonso Rato, who demanded "active television" for the Portuguese diaspora.[2]
It first started broadcasting via
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.[4] 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.[5]
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
Distribution
Satellite
RTP Internacional is available across all of North America for free via Galaxy 19 and Intelsat 805.[6]
Subscription television
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
Terrestrial television
RTPi programming is also retransmitted by
Controversies
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,[7] while Reporters Without Borders condemned that same decision. Lusa was eventually allowed to operate in the country, but RTP Internacional and RDP were not.[8]
References
- ^ "RTP: uma antena para o mundo". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ a b "RTP: uma antena para o mundo". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "RTP: uma antena para o mundo". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "RTP África e Expo'98 no caminho das novas tecnologias". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ^ "RTP África e Expo'98 no caminho das novas tecnologias". RTP. 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ^ "Intelsat 805". www.lyngsat.com. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ "RTP é suspensa na Guiné-Bissau | A Televisão". A Televisão (in European Portuguese). 1 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ 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.
External links
- Official website (in Portuguese and English)
- RTP Internacional Live Stream on RTP Play