Thread:The Testcardiologist/@comment-3004323-20190913125310/@comment-3004323-20190926152009

Basically, the network would start in 1962 under Diário Popular's hands, where the Salomão family was already a shareholder with foreign help from some ITV's stations. In the early 1970s, Francisco Pinto Salomão leaves the DP and buys his uncle's stake on SRT, using his skills to eventually launch Expresso. During the time he was Prime Minister under a PSD/CDS coalition in the early 1980s, he kept the ownership of both, but they were officially operated by other people connected to him. In the late 1980s, Sigma tries to raid in and it almost ends up in a civil war with Granadia to decide who would be the primary foreign shareholder.