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The commission considers that there has been “poor communication and insufficient involvement of the workers”.
Employees have decided to withdraw their confidence in the company's Board of Directors.
RTP presents a new visual identity this Monday that unifies its television, radio, and digital platform brands. The old logo is being retired, and the acronym RTP will now take centre stage in the group's branding. Among the announced changes is the renaming of some services, such as RTP Internacional, which will be renamed RTP Mundo, and the radio stations, which will now include the RTP designation.
The Journalists' Union (SJ) has urged RTP to halt the brand unification process, which involves modifying the image and names of the group's various radio stations, and expressed full solidarity with the workers. The SJ board expresses its full solidarity with the journalists of the Antena 1 and Antena radio stations.
'Resistance troops' from Porto and Lisbon contest the flagship idea of the 'Turminha do Cagaréu', protected by a 'Patusco' administrator who wants to speak to the minister without informing the company president. But another surprise is on the way...
Workers at the public broadcaster condemn being excluded from the changes announced for March 30th.
The Reader's Digest study concluded that trust in Portuguese public television increased over the last year, with 45 percent of Portuguese people stating that they trust RTP the most.
RTP is once again a trusted brand. And José Rodrigues dos Santos is the journalist whom the Portuguese trust the most.
RTP wants a single brand for television and radio by the end of the month. Journalists reject the strategy and are debating 'actions to take' in a joint plenary session.
The RTP editorial boards expressed concern today regarding the project to standardise all RTP sub-brands and the future 'Casa das Notícias', warning of 'profound changes' in the case of the radio brands.
The Minister of the Presidency ruled out any possibility of a merger between Lusa and the RTP group this Thursday. He argued that the new statutes remove government control from the agency and questioned why the PS never created the Independent General Council that it is now proposing. António Leitão Amaro was questioned at the press conference following the Council of Ministers meeting.
The Minister of the Presidency ruled out any possibility of a merger between Lusa and the RTP group today and argued that the new statutes remove government control from the agency, questioning why the PS never created the Independent General Council that it is now proposing.
Workers' representatives from RTP and Lusa expressed concern over the future of these media outlets, criticizing the Portuguese government for lacking transparency regarding potential plans to merge the two companies. They highlighted uncertainties about the impact on editorial independence, institutional autonomy, and the quality of public broadcasting. The unions and editorial councils called for ongoing dialogue and urged workers to participate in upcoming protests in Lisbon and Porto to defend the independence and stability of public media.
In a joint statement, the workers' committees pointed to the “lack of information that should be clear and definitive from the Government regarding the potential consolidation of Lusa and RTP into a shared space.”
The Minister of the Presidency states that the parliamentary hearings for Lusa's News Directorate are intended to protect the news agency from 'a new Sócrates'. Leitão Amaro suggests that RTP and Lusa should work together.
Leitão Amaro advocates for structural reforms within the Lusa news agency and the public broadcaster RTP.
The Minister of the Presidency suggests a merger between Lusa and RTP, citing the example of what happened in Spain.
Jurist Gonçalo Almeida Ribeiro was approved by the Government as a member of the Independent General Council (CGI) of RTP on Friday, the day he was heard in parliament, sources with access to the process told Lusa. Despite the unanimous written deliberation — a legal mechanism through which nominees for the body are ratified...
Less than 12 hours after being heard by the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Communication, Youth and Sport, Gonçalo Almeida Ribeiro went from nominee to full member of the Independent General Council.
The jurist Gonçalo Almeida Ribeiro was approved by the Government as a member of the Independent General Council (CGI) of RTP on Friday, the day he was heard in parliament, sources with access to the process told Lusa.
The question is: what will become of RTP — the state broadcaster — amid all the controversy.
