NOS Audiovisuais (formerly ZON Lusomundo) is a Portuguese integrated media corporation founded in 1953, which has major interests in movie distribution, cinema theaters and media assets.
It was founded with the purpose of movie distribution, and had a very close relation with the biggest studios (it is currently the Portuguese licensee of United International Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Miramax Films, DreamWorks SKG, Multicom Entertainment Group and Vantage Media International). In the 1980s Lusomundo started acquiring newspapers, including Comércio do Porto, Diário de Notícias and Jornal de Notícias. In the early 1990s, it acquired TSF Rádio Notícias and minority stakes of TVI.
History
The company was founded by João Ildefonso Bordalo in 1953, based on an existing family group.[1] In 1973, it acquired the Tivoli Theater in Lisbon, using it as the distributor's flagship.