Benfica TV spent 3 million euros

At 10:00 on December 10 copies of the MEO, platform of Portugal Telecom, will have one more channel available: the Manchester United TV. So far the channel sum three million euros in costs, ranging from works in the studio and Editors (500 thousand), the purchase of technical equipment (2.5 million).

"Let's start with 'Benfica 10 hours', one of the three main news. The other will be at 14.00 and 21.00," suggests the director of the channel, Ricardo Palacin.

The programs have the background to the sport, such as the formats of humor 'Roberts to the Neck' and 'rind and Bifanas', which shows, so well - prepared, to life in rulotes.

The arrangements will also be high on Liverpool TV. "Devoted 30 minutes at each one," refers Palacin, although it is already moving "guaranteed access to games of the RTP file." Already in relation to games of the League 2008/2009, whose rights belong to Olivedesportos, which owns the Sport TV, "we send them 24 hours later, unless it is on Sundays," says Ricardo Palacin.

Domingos Soares de Oliveira, chief executive of DSS's Benfica, has already set targets: "We want to reach one million homes by the end of 2009, when we are also in AR Telecom, Cable Vision and ClixSmartTV." In addition, the club "is in an advanced stage of negotiations with the U.S. market and the PALOP countries, especially Mozambique and Angola." The responsible speech in annual cost of four million euros whereas "in advertising revenues will be sufficient to cover these costs."

GAME OF COMPLAINTS IN REASON UEFA ERC

The Regulatory Authority for Social Communication (ERC) "received several complaints" about the transmission of tomorrow's game in ZON TV Cabo. One of them was of Sport Lisboa e Benfica considered illegal by the said issue. The ERC was held yesterday afternoon and once again find themselves this morning, "to take a decision on the matter, in time," says the source entity.

Domingos Soares de Oliveira is "surprised that a distributor to buy this game." Paul Camacho, Director of Communication of ZON explains to CM: "Television rights, which were held by Olympiacos, were available for Portugal, and we bought." The game will be broadcast at 19.45, at position 29 of scale for customers with digital Power Box or Box ZON The ZON placed a giant screen in his tent near the Christmas tree in the Parque Eduardo VII in Lisbon, where you can see the game.