PORTUGUESE TELEVISION SYSTEM: AN HISTORICAL APPROACH

Abstract

Inserted within the combination of events between the convergence of the media and of technological transformation, generalist television in Portugal aims to adapt itself to contemporaneity from the perspective of development and modernization. Although familiar with new means of diffusion and also with different ways of consumption, television does not lose its importance; however, it does have to adjust itself to other models of use. It is the objective of this paper to try to establish an historical picture of the evolution of television in Portugal taking into account the characterization of the televisual system in order to put the future into perspective.