Media Capital

Media Capital SGPS SA
Company type	Public
Traded as	Euronext Lisbon: MCP
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Oeiras, Portugal
Key people	Mário Ferreira (chairman)
Products	TV stations, radio stations, magazines, internet
Owner	Pluris Investments, S.A. (35.38%); Triun, SGPS, S.A. (23%); Biz Partners (11.98%); CIN – Corporação Industrial do Norte, S.A. (11.2%); Zenithodyssey, Lda. (10%); Free float (2.95%); DoCasal Investimentos, Lda. (2.5%); [citation needed]
Website	Media Capital

Media Capital SGPS, SA, is a Portuguese media corporation founded in 1988 (originally named SOCI – Sociedade de Comunicação Independente, founded by Luís Nobre Guedes), based in Oeiras, Lisbon in Portugal. Media Capital is a major media group in Portugal, and one of the biggest media corporations in Europe. It distributes 20th Century Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) home video releases in the Portuguese market under the Castello Lopes label.

2020, PRISA was the principal owner of Media Capital.

Businesses

Media Capital operates in several areas of media and advertising. Here is a list of the companies owned by Media Capital.

Broadcasting

TVI, a television broadcaster. It was acquired by Media Capital in 1997.
- CNN Portugal (brand under license from Warner Bros. Discovery and CNN Global)
- V+ TVI
- TVI Reality
- TVI Internacional
- TVI África

Magazines

Media Capital Edições, a magazine publisher:
- Lux Magazine (women's magazine)
- Maxmen (Portuguese version of Maxim men's magazine)
- Portugal Diário (news magazine)
- Agência Financeira (financial magazine)
- MaisFutebol (Association football magazine)

Internet

IOL (Portugal), a multimedia content provider (also an Internet service provider previously).

Former units

Radio

Media Capital Rádios, a radio broadcaster, which includes several radio stations (sold to Bauer Media Group in February 2022^[1]):

Rádio Comercial - national net of broadcasters:
- 88.1 FM - Fóia (Monchique) → 10 kW
- 88.7 FM - Lamego (Viseu) → 5 kW
- 88.9 FM - Minhéu (Vila Real) → 10 kW
- 89.0 FM - Leiria - Maunça → 1 kW
- 89.3 FM - Esposende (Braga) → 0,4 kW
- 90.8 FM - Lousã (Coimbra) → 44 kW
- 91.9 FM - Bornes Mountains → 10 kW
- 92.0 FM - Mendro Mountains (Beja district - also serving Évora's district) → 50 kW
- 92.2 FM - Oliveirinha (Aveiro) → 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 (Monsanto Forest Park) → 44 kW
97.7 FM - Porto (Monte da Virgem) → 44 kW
98.2 FM - Fundão (Gardunha Mountains) → 10 kW
98.5 FM - Sintra → 0,3 kW
98.9 FM - Portalegre (Marada Alta Mountains) → 10 kW
99.0 FM - Valença do Minho - Monte do Faro → 10 kW
99.2 FM - Braga (Sameiro) → 5 kW
99.8 FM - Montejunto Mountains → 10 kW
103.1 FM - Vouzela (Pena Hill) → 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 (Coimbra) → 1 kW
- 99.7 FM - Loulé (Faro district) → 2 kW

106.2 FM - Montijo → 1 kW
101.0 FM - Vale de Cambra (Aveiro) → 0.5 kW
102.8 FM - Viseu → 2 kW
104.4 FM - Braga (Amares) 104.4 FM → 1 kW
107.2 FM - Vila Nova de Gaia - Porto → 0.5 kW

M80 Radio
- 90.0 - Matosinhos (Porto)
- 93.0 - Leiria
- 95.6 - Penalva do Castelo (Viseu)
- 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 (Coimbra)
- 96.6 - Lisbon
- 97.7 - Santarém
- 103.0 - Barreiro

Shut down stations

Best Rock FM
- 89.5 FM - Valongo
- 101.1 FM - Moita

Star FM
- Benavente (Belmonte) 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

Media Capital is owned by Pluris Investments, S.A. (35.38%), Triun, SGPS, S.A. (23%), Biz Partners (11.9725%), CIN – Corporação Industrial do Norte, S.A. (11.20%), Zenithodyssey, Lda. (10%), Fitas & Essências, Lda. (3%) and DoCasal Investimentos, Lda. - (2.5%).^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Media Capital vende rádios a alemães da Bauer por 69,6 milhões de euros". ionline (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-16.

External links

Media Capital - official website
MCR

[1] "Media Capital vende rádios a alemães da Bauer por 69,6 milhões de euros". ionline (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-16.

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