Económico TV

ETV (Económico TV) was a private Portuguese digital cable business news television channel that is owned by the same group of the Portuguese newspaper Diário Económico and Brazilian Brasil Econômico (from the Ongoing Strategy Investment group). It is available on cable, satellite and Internet streaming. The channel was launched in 2010 as an exclusive in Portugal to NOS, one year later it became available on MEO platform.

ETV

Country	Portugal
Broadcast area	Portugal Angola Mozambique
Programming
Picture format	16:9 576i (SDTV) 16:9 1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Ongoing Strategy Investments
History
Launched	May 6, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-05-06)
Closed	October 20, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-10-20)
Links
Website	Económico TV

History

The channel was announced in July 2009 with a cost of €2,5 million to €3 million, according to its director and future prime minister António Costa. The format was defined to be a midway between Bloomberg TV and SIC Notícias.^[1] In August, a tentative October launch date was announced, with its license being greenlighted.^[2] The launch of the channel was delayed several times, first to late November^[3] then finally on 6 May 2010.^[4]

On 16 February 2011, broadcasts began on MEO, in SD on channel 200 and in HD on channel 16.^[5]

The channel ended its broadcasts on 20 October 2016, due to the suspension of the online newspaper broadcast.^[6]