NOS Audiovisuais (formerly ZON Lusomundo) is a Portuguese integrated media corporation founded in 1953, which has major interests in movie distribution, cinema theaters and media assets. It was founded with the purpose of movie distribution, and had a very close relation with the biggest studios (it is currently the Portuguese licensee of

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and

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). In the 1980s Lusomundo started acquiring newspapers, including ''

Comércio do Porto ''O Comércio do Porto'' (lit. ''Porto Trade'') was a Portuguese daily newspaper. First appearing in Porto under the title ''O Commercio'' in 1854, the newspaper folded in 2005 after more than 150 years of continuous publication. At the time of its ...

'', ''

Diário de Notícias ''Diário de Notícias'' () is a Portuguese daily newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal. Established since 1864, the paper is considered a newspaper of record for Portugal. History and profile ''Diário de Notícias'' was first published in ...

'' and ''

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''. In the early 1990s, it acquired TSF Rádio Notícias and minority stakes of TVI. In 2000,

PT Multimédia NOS, SGPS S.A. is a Portuguese telecommunications and media company who provides mobile and fixed telephony, cable television, satellite television and internet. The company resulted from the merger in 2013 of two of the country's major telecom ...

made a successful takeover of Lusomundo. Since then, Lusomundo was split into two companies with different owners: *Lusomundo Audiovisuais, which controls the cinema and movie distribution assets *Lusomundo Media (now owned by

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), which controls other media assets Until 2007, the Lusomundo brand was used on four premium subscription television movie channels. Nowadays these channels are named

TVCine TVCine is a Portuguese premium television brand used on four movie channels, operated by NOS. They showcase recent movies and premieres from all the major studios, as well as comedy, action, classic and old movies. The TVCine brand was launched on ...

. In 2007, PT Multimedia separated from PT Comunicações and became ZON Multimédia and this corporation was renamed ZON Lusomundo, in May 2014 it was renamed NOS, officially retiring the 61-year-old Lusomundo name.

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