SIC Internacional
title: "SIC Internacional" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["international-broadcasters", "television-networks-in-portugal", "television-channels-in-angola", "television-channels-in-mozambique", "television-stations-in-portugal", "portuguese-language-television-stations", "1997-establishments-in-portugal", "television-channels-and-stations-established-in-1997", "sociedade-independente-de-comunicação", "portuguese-language-television-in-the-united-states"] topic_path: "geography/portugal" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIC_Internacional" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | SIC Internacional |
| logo | SIC_Internacional.png |
| logo_size | 150px |
| launch_date | |
| owner | Impresa |
| sister_channels | SIC |
| SIC Notícias | |
| SIC Radical | |
| SIC Mulher | |
| SIC K | |
| SIC Caras | |
| SIC Novelas | |
| SIC Internacional África | |
| website | SIC Internacional |
| picture_format | 1080i HDTV |
| (downscaled to 576i/480p for the SDTV feed) | |
| country | Portugal |
| area | Europe |
| North America | |
| South America | |
| Africa | |
| Australia | |
| :: |
| name = SIC Internacional | logo = SIC_Internacional.png | logo_size = 150px | launch_date = | owner = Impresa | sister_channels = SIC SIC Notícias SIC Radical SIC Mulher SIC K SIC Caras SIC Novelas SIC Internacional África | website = SIC Internacional | picture_format = 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 576i/480p for the SDTV feed) | country = Portugal | area = Europe North America South America Africa Australia
SIC Internacional is SIC's international channel, which officially launched in September 1997 in France and expanded throughout the world. SIC Internacional is aimed at Portuguese viewers who live abroad and features programming from SIC and other channels. Programming includes news, entertainment, talk shows, and sports. It also features exclusive coverage of Portuguese Liga football matches.
SIC Internacional is aimed at Portuguese migrant communities and is available via cable and satellite in Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Brazil, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) via Luso Vision.
The channel started broadcasting to southern Africa in August 2000. On August 2, 2004, it began broadcasting to Brazil on the NET and Sky platforms. The two providers controversially replaced RTP Internacional.
In North America, SIC Internacional is available via local Portuguese television channels.
In Canada it is relayed via FPTV and in the United States via SPT TV. These relays run alongside local productions aimed at the communities in the respective countries.
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/SIC_Internacional_-_Worldwide_coverage.svg" caption="#aa4400}} SIC International Africa"] ::
Angola
On June 5, 2017, SIC Internacional and SIC Notícias had their broadcasts suspended in Angola and Mozambique on the DStv platform after Zap shut the signals of the channels in March.
References
References
- [http://www.briefing.pt/media-br/20864-sic-internacional-chega-a-australia-e-sic-noticias-a-franca.html SIC Internacional chega à Austrália e SIC Notícias a França], ''Briefing'', 10 May 2013
- "MultiChoice expands in West Africa", ''Africa Film & TV Magazine'', nº. 27, November 2000-January 2001
- (29 July 2004). "SIC Internacional transmite para o Brasil a partir de 2 de Agosto". [[Jornal de Negócios]].
- (27 October 2004). "SIC substitui estação publica no Brasil". [[Correio da Manhã (Portugal).
- (5 June 2017). "Uma nova estratégia".
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