Brazilian regional television network
RBS TV is a Southern Brazilian television network owned by Grupo RBS, and one of the oldest ♣ Rede Globo affiliates.
The acronym originally stood for Rede Brasil Sul de Televisão (English: "Brazil South Television Network"), but currently the ♣ network never uses its full name on-air.
RBS TV owns 12 television stations in Rio Grande do Sul.
RBS TV Porto Alegre ♣ is the headquarters for the network.
RBS TV stations produce an average amount of local and regional programming, composed mainly of ♣ news, but also drama series, documentaries, sports, variety and youth programming.
History [ edit ]
Plaque commemorating the launch of TV Gaúcha, ♣ March 2009.
RBS TV logo from 2008 to 2019
TV Gaúcha was created in 1962 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, ♣ and would later become RBS TV Porto Alegre.
The following year, TV Gaúcha affiliated itself with Rede Excelsior.
Rede Globo was launched ♣ in Rio de Janeiro two years later, but TV Gaúcha would only become its affiliate in 1967.
In 1979, it started ♣ to operate in Florianópolis, the capital city of Santa Catarina.
This new purchase obliged the network to change its name to ♣ something less Rio Grande do Sul-related (as the word "Gaúcha" was), and it was rebranded RBS TV that same year.
Broadcasters ♣ members [ edit ]
RBS TV Porto Alegre.
Rio Grande do Sul [ edit ]
RBS TV Florianópolis.
Santa Catarina (formerly) [ edit ]
RBS ♣ TV Florianópolis (Florianópolis) - 12
RBS TV Blumenau (Blumenau) - 3
RBS TV Centro-Oeste (Joaçaba) - 6
RBS TV Chapecó (Chapecó) - 11
RBS ♣ TV Criciúma (Criciúma) - 9
RBS TV Joinville (Joinville) - 5
Corporate slogans (translated to English) [ edit ]
1962-1963 Rio Grande's living ♣ image.
1987-1992: A station serving the community.
1996-2000: All for You.
2000-2003: We show, you see.
2003-2008: Your Life on TV.
2008-2012: We do it ♣ for you.
2012-2015: We do it with you.
2015-2019: The TV connects us.
2019–present: Well for you.
Inquiry on RBS Group oligopoly / monopoly ♣ practicing [ edit ]
The RBS Group is being investigated by the practice of oligopoly / monopoly.
In 2008, the Federal Prosecutor ♣ of Santa Catarina has filed a public civil action (Case No..2008.72.00.
014043-5) against the company oligopoly Rede Brasil Sul (RBS) in ♣ southern Brazil.
The MPF requires the company, among other measures, to reducing its number of TV and radion stations in the ♣ states of Santa Catarina (SC) and Rio Grande do Sul (RS), so that to be in according to the Brazilian ♣ law; and the cancellation of the purchase of the newspaper A Notícia from Joinville, consummated in 2006 - which resulted ♣ in a virtual monopoly over the relevant newspapers in the state of Santa Catarina.[1]
In 2009, the Federal Prosecutor in Canoas ♣ (RS), Pedro Antonio Roso, asked the chairman of the RBS Group, Nelson Pacheco Sirotsky, among other informations, the number of ♣ TV and radio stations that the company owns in Rio Grande do Sul, "as well as its affiliates, stations and ♣ repeaters.
" The request is part of an administrative proceeding brought by federal prosecutors "to determine possible occurrence of monopolistic practices ♣ and irregularities in granting Radio and Television to the RBS Group in Rio Grande do Sul".[2]
