Pokémon in Portugal: Difference between revisions

The television station that started broadcasting the Pokémon anime in Portugal is '''SIC''', ''{{tt|Sociedade Independente de Comunicação|Independent Society of Comunication}}'', a station based in {{wp|Lisbon}} that was owned by a consortium led by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, and backed by Controljornal (now Impresa Jornais, a holding that contains Impresa's newspapers and magazines), Impala Editores, BPI and {{wp|Rede Globo|Rede Globo}}. It is the third terrestrial television station in Portugal, launched on October 6, 1992. It aired the seasons 1-10, including ''[[Pokémon Chronicles]]'', having several breaks in the process. The show aired in an irregular pattern, shifting from 6 A.M. to 10 A.M., but always in the same programing block, named '''LOL@SIC'''. The seasons 1-9 were dubbed in the '''Nacional Filmes''' studio, in Lisbon. Movies 1-4 were dubbed in '''Matinha''', a studio known for dubbing famous Disney and Dreamworks movies, with nearly the same voice actors from the anime.  

 

The ''[[Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl]]'' season was dubbed in the '''Dialectus''' studio, in Lisbon too. It premiered on SIC on January 31 2009, airing more or less consistently one new episode each Saturday, around 7 A.M. After [[DP037]] aired on 4th October 2009, the show went on a hiatus. The 14 last episodes of the season aired from 6th February 2010 to 13th March 2010. These last episodes were sponsored by the {{pmin|Italy|Italian}} toy company Giochi Preziozi.

The channel aired the 10th season from 20th September 2010 to 25th October 2010, showing 2 episodes each day of the week and repeating the 10 episodes shown on workweek in the weekend. Notably, this version had fixed mistakes in the dub, also replacing some speeches from the original production with ones of the new actors, which were presumed by the fans to be tests for the new voice cast. Midway through the airing of the 10th season, the channel started a promotion campaign of their new ownership of the series, conducting a contest in which 70 winners would win two tickets to a premiere of [[DP053]] and [[DP054]] in cinemas. There were two premieres: one in Lisbon (40 winners) and one in Porto (30 winners). Both premieres were held on 23th October 2010, with the winners notified two days earlier.

The dub of the ''[[M10|The Rise of Darkrai]]'' movie aired on 25th December 2010 in the channel, as part of the Christmas campaign. It was the first movie to be produced in the '''Cinemágica''' studio and also the first one to have its ending songs dubbed into European Portuguese.

The ''[[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles]]'' season premiered on 1 June 2011, keeping the core cast intact.

The ''[[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors]]'' season premiered on 25 December 2011.

The ''[[M11|Giratina and the Sky Warrior]]'' and ''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life ]]'' movies premiered on 13 and 23 June 2011, respectively, with all the same main cast as from the 11th season onwards.