Pedro Morais Leitão, stated that “what is happening in the audiovisual sector is an absurd concentration of power in the hands of distribution” and also says that “SportTV concentrates 97% of distribution”.
The executive president (CEO) of Media Capital today criticized the concentration of “all the rights of the main Portuguese sports championship on a single channel”, pointing out that “SportTV has been accumulating rights” that were distributed by open television.
The person in charge, who was speaking at the conference “Information as a public good: Media regulation and public policies”, promoted by the Regulatory Entity for Social Communication (ERC), which is taking place in the Senate Room, at the Assembly of the Republic, in Lisbon, portrayed the acquisition of Moreirense’s rights for next season as a “small contribution” to “break the absurd situation that was created 10 years ago”.
The executive president of Media Capital, Pedro Morais Leitão, stated that “what is happening in audiovisual is an absurd concentration of power in the hands of distribution” and also says that “SportTV concentrates 97% of distribution”.
“We hope that society realizes that as much as it is good to pay generously to football clubs through SportTV, it does not make sense to concentrate all the rights of the main Portuguese sports championship on a single channel closed to the general public”, he said.
In the same panel, the executive president of the Impresa group, Francisco Pedro Balsemão, said that media groups have to grow, adding that it is necessary to focus on “good content creation and the best way to distribute it”.
Francisco Pedro Balsemão also stated that the biggest companies in the world “are in the content area” and that the media is “unique”, has been reinventing itself for decades and has “capacity for growth”.
