The company Editave Multimédia, owner of Fama Rádio, Famatv and the digital newspaper Opinião Pública, filed a formal complaint with ERC against the Municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, accusing the council of designing a 210 thousand euro public tender for the acquisition of advertising broadcasting services with criteria that favor one local radio operator to the detriment of another. The company claims that the requirement of a printed newspaper as an eliminatory criterion in the audiovisual lot creates a "de facto monopoly," excluding Fama Rádio and Famatv, which have had no printed edition for about six months. Editave speaks of a "two-step market blockade": first, the council allegedly created a printed municipal bulletin that harmed the commercial viability of independent newspapers, and then uses this absence as a legal pretext to exclude those media from the tender. The company asked ERC for urgent intervention and requested that the tender jury change the rules, invoking violation of principles of the Public Procurement Code, including technological neutrality.
Jornal Opinião Pública (Vila Nova de Famalicão)04/09/26, 20:43