Antena 3 is one of the three national radio channels produced by the Portuguese public broadcasting entity Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, the others being Antena 1 and Antena 2.
The channel specializes in contemporary and alternative music, featuring live concerts, news and chart countdown programmes.
History
Inaugurated on 26 April 1994, Antena 3 is distinguished by its promotion of new Portuguese music. The station has discovered and promoted some of the most important contemporary Portuguese bands. Its slogan is A Primeira Vez é Sempre na 3 (First time every time on 3).
Over the years, Antena 3 has been controlled by Jorge Alexandre Lopes, Luís Montez, José Mariño, and (currently) Rui Pêgo.
The Team
Some of the house names are:
Antena 3 can refer to:
- Antena 3 (Spain), a television channel
- Antena 3 Canarias, a defunct television channel that broadcasts to the Canary Islands
- Antena 3 Noticias, a news programme
- Antena 3 Radio, defunct radio station
Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Atresmedia which also owns Onda Cero, one of Spain's most listened to radio stations. It started broadcasting via analogue throughout Spain on 25 January 1990 with a programme fronted by journalist Miguel Ángel Nieto, thus becoming Spain's first nationwide private television station; before this, RTVE had a state monopoly.
Some of the most popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, Física o Química, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado. Some of its programmes, such as Física o Química and Tu cara me suena gained international success and many duplicate programmes were produced worldwide. Antena 3 is listed as the third channel on television sets throughout Spain, except certain autonomous communities where the autonomous television station occupies channel 3. Its current headquarters are located in San Sebastián de los Reyes, near Madrid.
Programming
The biggest winners for the channel are The Simpsons, El Internado, DEC, El Diario (a daily talk show run by Sandra Daviú) and the Noticias (particularly the evening edition run by Matías Prats).
Antena 3 is a Romanian TV channel, which focuses on news and current events. It was launched in May 2005 and is part of the Intact group. Antena 3 is also distributed in Serbia in the Romanian language-extra package of the DTH platform Digi TV. The official website of the TV channel hosts all daily shows which are made available for watching in an archive that is generally reloaded every month. Starting 2006 the TV channel also allowed online users to watch it live on the internet on its official website.
Antena 3 has constant rivalry with the other major Romanian news station, Realitatea TV, owned by Elan Schwartzenberg.
Antena 3 is a part of the second largest media trust in Romania (Intact) that has a 14.6% of the Romanian media market. It is a news and talk show station only and it is pretty much designed similarly to BBC World or CNN.com, but at a much more reduced scale. The station's website receives an average of 50,000 visitors a day being one of the most visited Romanian websites on the market, losing only to Realitatea.NET, (Realitatea TV's web page, Realitatea TV being the first news network by ratings, Antena 3 - the second). By comparison, Gazeta Sporturilor, another media product owned by Intact gets more than one million hits a day, being the most visited Romanian website in the world.