Televisão Regional de Loures

Background
Televisão Regional de Loures (also known as TRL) is a pirate television network. Their lineup consists of weather reports, sports and cultural news, and on-call pharmacies in Lisbon. Their most popular was an interview series which featured guests such as Herman José, Vicente, and António Sala as well as a Odivelas-based variety program. At one point, they were taken to court by RTP and other official services, but this case ended up becoming shelved.

(1985-1986)
Logo: We start off with the 1980 BBC Video logo. Just before the "V"'s trail zooms into the letter, the screen freezes and then the following text pops up:  T.R.L. Televisão Regional de Loures

After several seconds, the screen cuts to various aerial footage of Lisbon, some of which shows the inside of a helicopter. Then, the screen freezes again to display this message:  No inicio de mais um periodo de programação a T.R.L. sauda-vos com Amizade.

This roughly translates to "At the beginning of another programming period, T.R.L. greets you with friendship". A few moments later, the screen cuts to a background containing a stylized, striped "TRL" with a hole through the former letter. Against a semicircle outline with three intersecting lines, "TELEVISÃO REGIONAL DE LOURES" is arced over it and "AO SERVICO DO CONCELHO" is underneath.

Variant: On closedowns, the two sequences from the beginning and end of the logo are swapped with the text " Fim de Emissão " appearing underneath the logo. Then, most of the aerial footage from the normal variant is seen before fading to a background reading "Cambria". The background radially wipes to black and the screen cuts to the logo sequence featuring the BBC Video logo.

FX/SFX: The BBC Video animation, the text and logo appearing, and live-action for the aerial footage.

Music/Sounds: The last 90 seconds of "Purple Rain" by London Symphony Orchestra.

Availability: Extinct; was used as both a sign-on and sign-off bumper.

Editor's Note: None.