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2026-08-06 08:02 UTC → 2026-08-12 16:42 UTC ·
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Portugal's Conta Lá TV crisis restructuring and management update
In Following the July 2026 the public‑service channel Conta Lá announced a shareholders' meeting for 6 August to address announcement of a deepening financial crisis. The CEO stepped down, salaries had been unpaid for almost three months, and a restructuring plan aimed crisis at cutting costs and preserving the channel’s public‑service role was put forward. A week later public-service channel Conta Lá, the media regulator ERC opened a sanction proceeding after against the broadcaster. The regulator found that the channel failed to disclose clearly identify sponsorships from 33 Portuguese municipalities in a holiday during its ‘Melhor Natal de Portugal’ programme, raising concerns about a lapse that could compromise editorial independence. Employees still faced unpaid wages, and the upcoming shareholders' meeting was highlighted as the venue where the channel’s future, new management, and wage settlement would be decided. On 6 August 2026 2026, shareholders convened held an extraordinary general meeting. The agenda covered a capital increase, approval of meeting to address the restructuring plan, and channel’s viability. During this meeting, shareholders approved the appointment total conversion of invested capital into social capital and elected a new management committee. Salary payments remained delayed for three months, Management Commission—composed of Rui Rego, Diogo Alexandre, and Maurício Ribeiro, Paulo Rego—to oversee a member restructuring process through December. The restructuring plan includes a planned capital increase of the resigning executive committee, addressed staff, acknowledging the hardship caused by up to five million euros to manage an estimated four million euros in debt owed to the unpaid wages. Tax Authority, Social Security, and signal distributor Ibertelco. The meeting’s outcomes are expected new commission has identified four immediate priorities: cost reduction, settling critical debts to determine the future of the Conta Lá project state and its regional channels. suppliers, developing debt management plans, and paying overdue salaries, which remain three months in arrears.