Yesterday I wrote about how to improve your listening comprehension when learning a language. I promised you a list of Portugeuese radio and tv stations on the internet to help you with your studies so here goes. These are all European Portuguese stations.
TELEVISION
First stop is RTP which is a major site for television and radio in Portugual. For television go to TV and choose Television Online. You’ll get a list of about 12 pages of programmes they have available to watch online. Once you are on this page, clicking on the green tv/radio online button at the top will offer you a menu of ‘RTP mobile’, ‘Programas em Direito’ and ‘RTP International’. RTP International won’t run without something called ‘Octoshape plugin’ and I’ve yet to make this work! It’s a shame but there’s plenty to keep me entertained regardless. The list of viewable programmes online will certainly keep you going for a long time!
I nearly always come to this site to watch the Portuguese news. Watching the news is one of the best places to start because much like English news, the newsreaders tend to pronounce their words very clearly and therefore it’s much easier to understand than perhaps a movie or general drama would be. Radio is also available on the site as well as podcasts.
TV Ciencia
Probably one of the best links as far as streaming news quality as the picture is crystal clear. From what I can gather the station is quite politically orientated. Maybe I have just been unlucky when I’ve watched that it always seems to be about politics! That said the site does say ‘sceince’, ‘technology’ and ‘culture’ so I think there is much more to it.
If you want to explore further there is a list of Portuguese television stations accessible online from WWITV and Beeline TV
RADIO
TSF
A major station in Portugal. I listen to this one a lot as it’s similar to radio four in the UK and has a lot of interviews and general talk shows. Just click on the play button on the right hand side of the page and listen live. Alternatively you can go to archived programs ‘Arquivo Programas’ and listen again. This is useful if you want to test your listening skills as I described yesterday. You can also click on the links on the left hand side of the page to listen to current news items that have been aired.
Antenna 3
One of my favourites for Portuguese pop, rock and indie. Basically an excellent independant station that’s pretty popular from what I’ve seen. They play music from the UK and US as well as current chart hits in Portugual and European hits. A good way of getting to know what’s hip in the Portuguese music scene. Click on Emmisão online and it’ll play through your windows media player.
Surf Music
A huge list of Portuguese radio stations
Multilingual Books
Another list of radio stations
Plenty to get you started, I hope you find these useful x
You can also visit http://www.sic.pt and http://www.tvi.pt, the other portuguese tv stations… And please, if you can understand the language, watch the news on these websites or on http://www.rtp.pt because unlike here in the States, they don’t hide anything from you or tell things in an “easier” way…
Hi Monica
Thanks for the links, I will definately take a look at them.
Olá. Bom, estamos a falar de canais portugueses, não é? Será que não entendem português? Então, porque querem ver canais portugueses? Se calhar é mais bonito em inglês, gente estranha. Ainda por cima com nomes portugueses, como é o caso da Monica Cruz! Como sei que entendem português, deixo-vos uma página com todos os canais portugueses online: http://www.tvtuga.com
Cumprimentos
Olá Vasco. Obrigada pelo ligação. Estou a aprender português – uma lingua muito linda.
For my readers, Vasco has given a link to a website which shows tv channels and radio in Portuguese.
Olá. There is a further alternative which is great if you don’t have access to broadband. If you have a freesat satellite receiver you can find at least 2 Portuguese channels, maybe more and perhaps radio as well. There is RTPi on 10724Mhz,Symbol Rate 29890, Horizontal Polarisation and TV Canção Nova on 11179Mhz, Symbol Rate 27480, Horizontal Polarisation. Eurobird and RTPi 4176Mhz, Symbol Rate 29890, Horizontal, TV Canção Nova 3720Mhz, Symbol Rate 27500, Horizontal on (I think) Hispasat it’s not rocket science.