TCV Internacional

A schedule proposal was made by TCV director Waldemar Pires in February 2013 for Thema, its commercial partner.^[1] Subsequently, its French partner announced that TCV Internacional would be distributed using the Eutelsat W2A satellite for interested providers.^[2]

TCV Internacional started broadcasting at 5:33pm Cape Verde Time (7:33pm in Lisbon), 33 minutes later than initially planned, after one month of experimental broadcasts.^[3] The channel launched with a special ceremony with the president of Cape Verde Luís Neves and launched on three Portuguese TV providers, ZON, MEO and Cabovisão, as a free preview throughout May before starting subscription broadcasts.^[4] Later, it was announced that it would expand to France - via Thema - and later to Angola and South Africa.^[3]

In 2022, RTC announced that it would relaunch TCV Internacional to better serve the diaspora, and use it as a potential new source of revenue for the corporation.^[5]