The Social Communications Regulatory Authority (ERC) brought two administrative offense cases against TVI for the broadcast on TVI and CNN Portugal of short images of sporting events for which Sport TV had exclusive rights to broadcast them. . These are serious offenses punishable by a fine of 20 thousand to 150 thousand euros.
We are talking about eight specific situations regarding the games of the Europa League (UEFA), the Portuguese Football League and the League Cup in 2023.
At the end of last year, Sport TV filed two complaints with the ERC (the first on November 10, the second on December 13), accusing it of illegally broadcasting footage of the Roma-Servette game (program “Diário da Manhã”, from TVI, October 6) ; Estoril-Benfica (CNN News, October 8); Liverpool-Toulouse (27 October on CNN’s Notícias); from Sp. Braga-Casa Pia (November 2 on CNN’s Notícias program); and Desp. Chavez-Benfica (November 6, 2023, in the program “Rui Santos em Campo” on CNN Portugal). They also mentioned the broadcast of images from Sporting Estrela da Amadora (November 6 on CNN Domingo); Sporting Estrela da Amadora (November 6 on Notícias CNN) and Guimarães Porto (November 12 on Notícias CNN). The ERC’s administrative action now states that TVI broadcast images based on the Sport TV signal without indicating its source.
This is not the first time that the ERC has notified TVI about the misuse of sports images from Sport TV. The same thing has already happened, for example, in August 2021.
Author: Miguel Azevedo
Source: CM Jornal
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