Unfair Practice

Once again, TV Cabo appears to be abusing its near monopoly position.

Eurosport is showing the Shanghai classic snooker tournament - hardly a mainstream Portuguese sport. During the interval between frames, Eurosport showed just enough adverts. Then a flash of snooker and a new, low-definition logo saying "Eurosport - publicidade". Then a long advert for Sport TV, the logo again, and back to the snooker mid-frame.

Who are the TV Cabo directors trying to kid? It was an amateurish stunt, surely without Eurosport's knowledge, pulled by someone who thinks they are untouchable. Totally unacceptable, in my view, but TV Cabo is the only TV supplier available to me...

No surprise then that one of Henrique Grenadeiro's dirty tricks during the PT takeover battle was to strip TV Cabo out of PTM. No point handing such power over to Sonae, is there.