Media Capital


Media Capital is a Portuguese media corporation founded in 1992 and the owner of TVI, the most watched TV channel in Portugal. MC also owns MCM which includes IOL, Plural Entertainment, Farol and Castello Lopes Multimedia.

History

Media Capital group was established as a publisher of print media in 1992. In the following years, the Group acquired a number of publications that included the weekly newspaper that covered major political and business news “O Independente”.
In 1997 the group expanded its activity with the acquisition of two radios: Rádio Comercial and Nostalgia. It is in 1998 that the group acquires 30% of TVI and in 2000 creates its internet business: IOL.
The acquisition of NBP in 2001 consolidated the Group’s position in the television market as a whole, with a strong investment on the production of fictional contents in Portuguese. In 2003, Media Capital entered the movie distribution business and, after acquiring Farol Música, became one of the major players in the music editing and record distribution business in Portugal.
The year of 2004 was marked by the preparation of the company for public quotation and subsequent listing of the company’s shares on Euronext Lisbon. In November 2005, Grupo Prisa became the largest shareholder of Grupo Media Capital.
In 2008 Media Capital sold its press business unit to Progresa and, at the end of the year, acquired Plural Espanha that, along with NBP, originated Plural Entertainment, one of the major content producers in Portuguese and Spanish, thus reinforcing its investment in the production and distribution of differentiated quality contents.
In 2020, Prisa sells 30,22% of its participation to Mário Ferreira’s Pluris Investments for 10,5 million. Later that year, Prisa Group announces the selling of the rest of the company leaving MC.
In 2021, MC and CNN signed an agreement that leads to the creation of CNN Portugal.
In 2022, MC sold all its radios for 69,6 million to Bauer Media Group. The main focus is now on the TV Broadcast market. This operation would reduce the MC debt from 79,9M to 21,2M and even a profit of 36,7M after a loss of 4,1M in the previous year.

Businesses

Media Capital operates in several areas of media and advertising.

Broadcasting

  • TVI, a television broadcaster. It was totally acquired by Media Capital in 1998.
  • CNN Portugal
  • V+ TVI
  • TVI Reality
  • TVI Internacional
  • TVI África

    Magazines

  • Maisfutebol

    Internet

  • IOL, a multimedia content provider.

    Former units

Radio

Media Capital Rádios, a radio broadcaster, which includes several radio stations :
  • Rádio Comercial - national net of broadcasters:
  • *88.1 FM - Fóia → 10 kW
  • *88.7 FM - Lamego → 5 kW
  • *88.9 FM - Minhéu → 10 kW
  • *89.0 FM - Leiria - Maunça → 1 kW
  • *89.3 FM - Esposende → 0,4 kW
  • *90.8 FM - Lousã → 44 kW
  • *91.9 FM - Bornes Mountains → 10 kW
  • *92.0 FM - Mendro Mountains → 50 kW
  • *92.2 FM - Oliveirinha → 0,2 kW
  • *93.9 FM - Samil - Bragança → 10 kW
  • *94.3 FM - Viseu → 0,5 kW
  • 96.1 FM - Faro - São Miguel/Goldra → 10 kW
  • 96.1 FM - Guarda/P. Vento → 10 kW
  • 96.8 FM - Grândola → 10 kW
  • 97.4 FM - Lisboa → 44 kW
  • 97.7 FM - Porto → 44 kW
  • 98.2 FM - Fundão → 10 kW
  • 98.5 FM - Sintra → 0,3 kW
  • 98.9 FM - Portalegre → 10 kW
  • 99.0 FM - Valença do Minho - Monte do Faro → 10 kW
  • 99.2 FM - Braga → 5 kW
  • 99.8 FM - Montejunto Mountains → 10 kW
  • 103.1 FM - Vouzela → 0,2 kW
  • Cidade FM - ten local radio stations:
  • *91.6 FM - Lisboa → 5 kW
  • *97.2 FM - Redondo → 0.5 kW
  • *99.3 FM - Alcanena → 2 kW
  • *99.7 FM - Penacova → 1 kW
  • *99.7 FM - Loulé → 2 kW
  • 106.2 FM - Montijo → 1 kW
  • 101.0 FM - Vale de Cambra → 0.5 kW
  • 102.8 FM - Viseu → 2 kW
  • 104.4 FM - Braga 104.4 FM → 1 kW
  • 107.2 FM - Vila Nova de Gaia - Porto → 0.5 kW
  • M80 Radio
  • *90.0 - Matosinhos
  • *93.0 - Leiria
  • *95.6 - Penalva do Castelo
  • *96.4 - Santarém
  • *98.4 - Coimbra
  • *94.4 FM - Aveiro
  • *97.4 FM - Vila Real
  • 104.3 - Lisbon and Setúbal
  • 106.1 - Faro
  • 106.4 - Beja and Évora
  • 106.7 - Portalegre
  • 107.1 - Portimão
  • 107.5 - Grândola / Santiago do Cacém
  • 103.8 - Braga and Fafe
  • Vodafone FM
  • *107.2 - Lisbon Metro Area
  • *103.0 - Coimbra & Centre region
  • *94.3 - Porto Metro Area
  • Smooth FM
  • *89.5 - Matosinhos - Porto
  • *92.8 - Figueiró dos Vinhos
  • *96.6 - Lisbon
  • *97.7 - Santarém
  • *103.0 - Barreiro

    Magazines

  • Media Capital Edições, a magazine publisher:
  • * Lux Magazine
  • * Maxmen
  • * Portugal Diário
  • * Agência Financeira

    Shut down stations

  • Best Rock FM
  • *89.5 FM - Valongo
  • *101.1 FM - Moita
  • Star FM
  • *Benavente 1035 AM
  • *96.6 FM - Lisboa
  • *105.8 FM - Porto
  • *96.8 FM - Sabugal
  • 103.0 FM - Coimbra and Cantanhede
  • 97.7 FM - Santarem
  • 104.4 FM - Manteigas

    Ownership

As of 31st of December, Media Capital states that "the company has the following shareholders helding a participation of sharecapital and voting rights equal or superior than 5%": Pluris Investments, S.A., Triun, SGPS, S.A., Biz Partners, CIN – Corporação Industrial do Norte, S.A. and Zenithodyssey, Lda..