TV Saúde, renamed Canal Saúde in 2004, was a Portuguese health television channel owned by the Bissaya Barreto Foundation, based and broadcasting from Coimbra. The channel timeshared with TV Medicina, a subscription channel limited to doctors.
History The channel was announced in December 1999, with a tentative launch date set for March 2000.O canal que lhe trata da saúde This was later delayed, and in May 2000, it announced experimental broadcasts for May 22 and 23, and a launch date set for the period between June 10 and 15, in which both TV Saúde and its overnight counterpart TV Medicina would launch. The former would be aimed at TV Cabo's 2,5 million subscriber base, while the latter would be restricted to doctors with a TV Cabo subscription. In October, it was expected to become the first interactive channel in Portugal, when TV Cabo was set to begin rolling out its interactive service. In an initial phase, the channel would broadcast from 10am to 6pm, with four hours of new content a day, the remaining four hours would consist of repeats. Its programs were already defined: À mesa com saúde (eating, nutrition), Sinais, sintomas e doenças (how to detect or prevent common diseases), Observatório (studio-based debate program where the interviewees are patients and specialists in the psychological, social and technical aspects), Viver até aos 100! (health problems and wellbeing conditions among the elderly), E se eu vos contasse... (how patients were treated in the past), Tribuna do Jornalista and Tribuna do Jurista (both fortnightly programs which analyzed relevant topics) and Jornal da Saúde (weekly analysis of what happened in the health field shown on Fridays). Weekends consisted of repeats of key weekday programs.TV Saúde vai ser interactiva
In August 2001, the channel suspended production of programming until late October due to litigation with Publimondego, whose relations with TV Saúde deteriorated earlier in the year.TV Saúde Parada Devido a Lítigio com Produtora
In May 2002, female staff of the channel received oral firing notification. Company administrator Luís Reis also announced the dissolution of the company. The staff did not receive formal letters as of July.Trabalhadoras da TV Saúde à espera de propostas de indemnização Later that year, the channel aired Bem Estar, a weekly talk show airing on Thursdays.VAMOS AO CONSULTÓRIO On April 15, 2003, a new talk show joined the schedule, Corpo e Alma, a program about "emotional, affective and mental" health, which marked the return of Cristina Caras Lindas to television.CRISTINA CARAS LINDAS REGRESSA À TELEVISÃO
At midnight on June 1, 2004, TV Cabo removed it and TV Medicina, citing a lack of contractual renewal.Canais de Medicina retirados da oferta cabo
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