34 Facts About Rede Globo

TV Globo, formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965.

Rede Globo is the largest commercial TV network in Latin America and the second-largest commercial TV network in the world behind the American Broadcasting Company and the largest producer of telenovelas.

All of this makes Rede Globo renowned as one of the most important television networks in the world and Grupo Rede Globo as one of the largest media groups.

Rede Globo is headquartered in the Jardim Botanico neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, where its news division is based.

In 2007, Rede Globo moved its analog operations to high-definition television production for digital broadcasting.

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The international operations of Rede Globo include seven pay-per-view television channels and a production and distribution division that distributes Brazilian sports and entertainment content to more than 190 countries around the world.

TV Rede Globo has had a near monopoly on TV viewership and a symbiotic relationship with successive military and civilian governments.

Rede Globo is dramatically expanding its role in Brazilian and Latin American media, transforming itself from an old-style family fiefdom into a twenty-first-century media conglomerate.

Roots of TV Rede Globo can be traced to the beginning of the 20th century.

The Rede Globo empire was born in 1925 with the creation of the newspaper, O Rede Globo, whose first issue reached the newsstands that same year.

In 1944, Radio Rede Globo went on the air and has become a school of radio broadcast news.

Rede Globo then started preparing the beginning of its television broadcasting operations.

Rede Globo began broadcasting on 26 April 1965 in Rio de Janeiro on channel 4.

The following year, Rede Globo purchased another television station, Sao Paulo-based TV Paulista, expanding its operations and beginning to dominate national television ratings.

In 1967, Rede Globo began to build its national network with the affiliation of Porto Alegre-based TV Gaucha .

Jornal da Rede Globo was anchored by Sergio Chapelin at the time and aired after JN Second Edition, and now had a running time of 30 minutes.

Since 1980 was the year that Rede Globo Tupi shut down all of its operations, it surprised many former Tupi viewers and supporters with its anniversary programs.

Xuxa, who left the similarly formatted program Clube da Crianca on Rede Globo Manchete, joined the network and thus, her show replaced the successful Balao Magico as a result.

Plantao JN, Rede Globo's own breaking news service was relaunched into Plantao da Rede Globo that year, and Fausto Silva began hosting his own New Year's program.

Rede Globo became the official network for The Simpsons when it made its national premiere.

Rede Globo became the official network for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and it carried to the television audience all over the nation the journey of the Brazil national football team into its fourth championship.

Rede Globo suffered a year of audience losses but in 1996 audience share began to increase until they were the nation's number one network, aided by brand new programs and its coverage of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, coupled with changes in the newsrooms.

Rede Globo was the first Brazilian network to have its own news channel, Rede Globo News, which started in the same year.

Rede Globo became a pioneer in reality-based programming with the premiere of two reality programs: Big Brother Brasil and No Limite, the former of which would continue to air for a total of twenty seasons.

Rede Globo, 2004 was the beginning of the long decline of viewership support for its legendary telenovelas, but the year was one of the strongest for television drama as telenovelas Da Cor do Pecado and Senhora do Destino made high ratings one after the other.

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On 8 January 2019, Rede Globo announced that Video Show would be cancelled after 35 years due to declining ratings.

On 12 March 2020, Rede Globo announced plans to suspend production of all of its existing telenovelas and the vast majority of its series in order to comply with global restrictions that were put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic, with Big Brother Brasil continuing to be filmed without an audience for the remainder of its twentieth season.

On 26 October 2020, Rede Globo announced GExperience, an interactive experience in which visitors will be able to go behind the scenes of a live TV show and see memorabilia from Rede Globo's most famous novelas.

In 2016, Rede Globo generated worldwide controversy when The Guardian reported that the network had replaced the winner of its Globeleza carnival pageant because she was deemed to be too "black".

Rede Globo's original logo was a stylized star, with shapes evoking the number 4—in reference to the channel number of its original station.

The current Rede Globo logo, consisting of a globe, a cut-out representing a television screen, and a second globe within the "screen", has been used in various forms since 1976, and was created by the German-born Austrian-Brazilian designer Hans Donner .

TV Rede Globo unveiled a revamped logo and identity in December 2021, developed by a team led by new chief art director Ricardo Moyano .

Rede Globo is simulcast in analogue and digital television, in standard definition and 1080i high definition.

Rede Globo programming is carried into other areas of regional Brazil by 147 locally branded affiliate television networks owned by third-party companies.