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Exhibition at the Expresso and SIC building commemorates the career of the founder, who passed away in October 2025.
The series, which premiered in 1997, is “trapped” in the RTP archive; the broadcaster has the tapes but cannot air them on television. The production company has closed down, and no one knows exactly who holds the rights.
Starting March 31st, the lobby of the Impresa building will host a permanent exhibition about Francisco Pinto Balsemão, the group's founder. In addition to photos covering his 88 years of life, the display will reveal personal objects and documents, such as his first typewriter at Expresso, the...
26 January 1926. In a laboratory in Soho, London, electrical engineer John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television to a small number of members of the Royal Institution. The first images were of a ventriloquist’s dummy called Stooky Bill, and from there television went on to evolve.
The first issue of Expresso was published 53 years ago. The world was already dangerous and few Portuguese voted.
