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
United International Pictures,
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment,
Warner Home Video,
Miramax Films and
DreamWorks SKG). 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'' and ''
Jornal de Notícias
''Jornal de Notícias (JN)'' (; meaning ''News Journal'' in English) is a Portuguese daily national newspaper, one of the oldest in Portugal.
History and profile
''JN'' was founded in Porto and was first published on 21 June 1888. It was one of ...
''. 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
Global Media Group
Global Media Group (formerly Controlinveste) is a Portuguese Mass media, media holding company founded by Portuguese sports Business magnate, mogul and FC Porto Sociedade Anónima Desportiva, S.A.D.'s shareholder Joaquim Oliveira.
History and pr ...
), 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.
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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Mass media companies of Portugal
Cinema chains in Portugal
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