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6 unusual facts about Rádio e Televisão de Portugal


Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011

Portugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, having selected their entry through a televised national final, organised by Portuguese broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP).

Portuguese Paratroop Nurses

During the '60s and the '70s, the Portuguese Army, RTP as well as foreign TV stations gathered many audiovisual information.

Rádio e Televisão de Portugal

Two new regional channels were created in 1972, for the Portuguese archipelagos of Madeira (opening on 6 August) and the Azores (10 August).

Until 1991, RTP owned its transmitter network, which was transferred to a state-owned enterprise which, through a series of mergers, became part of Portugal Telecom.

Signing of the Treaty of Lisbon

The television coverage of the ceremony was produced by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, the public broadcaster of Portugal.

Vida minha

This year, RTP devoted the festival to fado that marked the accession of traditional Portuguese music to UNESCO’s Oral and Intangible World Heritage list.


Ary dos Santos

Meanwhile, Ary participated, under a pseudonym, in the RTP Song Contest, writing the lyrics of two songs to be performed by Simone de Oliveira and Fernando Tordo.

Dona Branca

In 1993 RTP created a telenovela titled A Banqueira do Povo ("The People's Banker") based on these events with Eunice Muñoz playing the role of the title character, in this case Dona Benta.

Jorge Gabriel

In late 2000, Jorge Gabriel also became the host of one of the highest rated shows of the TV station, the "Big Show SIC", a task previously performed by João Baião, which had left SIC to work in the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP).

Júlio Isidro

When fifteen, Isidro was hired by RTP to host the daily youth programme Programa Juvenil with Lídia Franco, Isidro had appeared on the show a couple of years earlier as part of the Camões Secondary School choir.

Liliana Santos

Later she was one of the hosts of Portuguese music show "TOP +" and a reporter for "Factor M", a talk show hosted by Merche Romero, both in RTP.

Maria Teresa de Noronha

She nevertheless took on several invitations to sing in Monaco (both at the Monte Carlo casino and privately for Princes Rainier and Grace at the Palace), London (BBC and Casa de Portugal), at an homage to Alfredo Marceneiro in 1963 and in RTP in 1968, while continuing to record LPs until 1971.

Operação triunfo

Operação Triunfo (OT) is the Portuguese version of the original Star Academy (in the original Spanish version of the reality show Operación Triunfo broadcast by RTP).

Oxygen Design Agency

He also acquired the internet rights to over 45 International television channels which included Al Jazeera, Rotana, MBC and RTP.

Portugal in the Eurovision Dance Contest

Sónia is a co-hoster of the Portuguese talk-show "Praça da Alegria", by RTP, RTP África and RTP Internacional, along with Jorge Gabriel and Hélder Reis.


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