Porto Canal is a metropolitan

Metropolitan area

The term metropolitan area refers to a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually encompasses multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships,...

 television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 station for Greater Porto, Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 based in Matosinhos

Matosinhos

Matosinhos Municipality is located in Porto District, Portugal. The main city is Matosinhos. It is bordered to the south by the city of Porto and lies within the Greater Porto subregion. The municipality has a population of 168,451 in 10 parishes. Many people have recently moved from the...

. It has rapidly taken a hold of late night ratings, due to its programming being extremely rich in unintentional humor

Unintentional humor

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. Launched on September 29, 2006, it is the third regional network launched in the region, but only another network is on air (Região Norte TV), due to the transformation of former NTV (from Porto TV, based in Vila Nova de Gaia

Vila Nova de Gaia

Vila Nova de Gaia, or simply Gaia is a city in Vila Nova de Gaia Municipality, Portugal. It is located in the Porto District, south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper has a population of 178,255 and the municipality contains 24 parishes with a total...

) into RTPN

RTPN

RTP Informação is a Portuguese 24-hour news channel operated by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal available on cable and satellite. The channel was launched in 2001 as NTV, a cable news channel headquartered in Porto. It was originally a joint-venture between PT Multimédia, Lusomundo and the...

, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa's news channel, but unlike NTV, Porto Canal only focus on the 14 municipalities of Porto Metropolitan area and not all the northern part of the country. Porto Canal is available in the cable and satellite package of ZON TV Cabo

TV Cabo

ZON Multimédia is a Portuguese media holding company whose main assets include a satellite, cable operator and ISP, a movie distributor and a virtual carrier of mobile phone services. Its services include cable television, cable internet and VOIP. ZON Multimédia is the spun off media arm of...

 and on the IPTV packages of Vodafone Casa TV

Vodafone Portugal

Vodafone Portugal, a full subsidiary of the Vodafone Group, is the second mobile operator in Portugal, both chronologically and in market share...

 and Optimus Clix.

On 4 March 2011, Porto Canal announced a partnership with Portuguese football club F.C.Porto.

Programs

• A Bola é Redonda
• À Conversa com Ricardo Couto
• Apetites
• Aquário
• A Jornada
• As nossas Aldeias
• Bem Estar
• Bolhão Rouge
• Clube de Cozinheiros
• Consultório
• Culture Club
• Essência do Gourmet
• Especial Debate
• Just Gr8
• La Vie En Rose
• Metro a Metro
• Mundo Interior
• Net Diário
• Números e Negócios
• O Dia Em Análise
• Pontos Cardeais
• Porto Alive!
• Portofino
• Primeiro Plano
• PSI
• Revista de Imprensa
• Será Assim Tão Difícil
• Sexualidades, Afectos e Máscaras
• Sozinha na Cidade
• Taça Porto Canal
• Telediário
• Tribunal
• Viagens na minha Terra
• Vizinhos