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Type
  
Media company

Website
  
Media Capital

Founded
  
1988

Owner
  
Grupo PRISA

Headquarters
  
Oeiras, Portugal

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Products
  
TV stations, radio stations, magazines, internet

Subsidiaries
  
Iol Negócios - Serviços De Internet, S.a.

Interview of rosa cullell ceo of 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. Media Capital is a major media group in Portugal, and is one of the biggest media corporations in Europe. Media Capital distributes 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer home video releases in the Portuguese market under the Castello Lopes label. Grupo PRISA is the principal owner of Media Capital.

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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.

Media Capital Rádios, a radio broadcaster, which includes several radio stations:

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).
  • Ownership

    Media Capital is owned by Grupo Prisa (95%), and by the Savings Banks of Vigo, Ourense and Pontevedra (5%). Until February 2007, Media Capital was co-owned by RTL Group and Grupo Prisa.

    References

    Media Capital Wikipedia