NOS Studios

NOS Studios

Country	Portugal
Headquarters	Lisbon, Portugal
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	NOS Audio - Sales and Distribution, S.A.
Parent	NOS
History
Launched	June 18, 2019 (2019-06-18)
Former names	FILMFAN (2014, license)

NOS Studios is a Portuguese movie channel owned by NOS Lusomundo and available exclusively on NOS. The channel does not compete with Cinemundo, on other providers, which is owned by a competing distributor.

History

On August 4, 2014, Dreamia requested ERC a license to operate a movie channel, tentatively named FILMFAN. ^[1]

The plan was revived by NOS on May 8, 2019. ^[2] Broadcasts started on June 18, 2019, on NOS's higher-end package, however for its first month on air it was available to all subscribers. The channel was the first to carry the NOS brand, which planned to launch a NOS Sport channel, having requested alomg the regulator. ^[3] There was also NOS Studios+, an SVOD service with a launch line-up of 50 titles hoping to increase to 100 by the end of July. ^[4]

In its first five years on air, the channel premiered over 2000 titles. Action, drama and comedy are its three main genres. ^[5]

References

1. Deliberação 126/2014 (AUT-TV)
2. Deliberação ERC/2019/123 (AUT-TV)
3. NOS cria canal de filmes. Já registou na ERC um de desporto
4. Nos Studios: o novo canal de filmes do operador que domina o sector dos filmes
5. Aqui só dão grandes filmes!