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Rede Transamérica
Rede Transamérica is a Brazilian radio network based in São Paulo, with programming focused on entertainment and sports broadcasts, belonging to the Grupo Camargo de Comunicação. The network was established by the Conglomerado Alfa, controlled by businessman Aloysio de Andrade Faria, following the inauguration of Transamérica FM in Recife and, later, Transamérica FM in Brasília, both in 1976. The chain of owned stations also has branches in the cities of São Paulo, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte. Until 2024, it had a branch in Salvador. For decades, Transamérica was geared towards CHR, with various musical genres (pop, rock, hip hop, etc). Between 1999 and 2019, the network was split up and became known as Pop (aimed at CHR, pop-style audiences), Hits (aimed at the popular segment) and Light (aimed at the adult contemporary segment). With the rapid growth of the popular strand, Rede Transamérica became the largest radio network in the country (in this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio signal, audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in ''satellite radio'' the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a Radio receiver, broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network that provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast, or both. The code, encoding of a radio broadcast depends on whether it uses an analog signal, analog or digital signal. Analog radio broadcasts use one of two types of radio wave modulation: amplitude modulation for AM radio, or frequency modulation for FM radio. Newer, digital radio stations transmit in several different digital audio standards, such as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transamérica Brasília
Transamerica or Transamerican may refer to: * ''TransAmerica'' (board game), a railroad board game * The Transamerica or Transamerica Senior Golf Championship, a golf tournament in Napa, California 1989–2002 * TransAmerica Athletic Conference * TransAmerica Bicycle Trail * TransAmerica Bike Route, a cross-country bicycle route east of the Mississippi River in the United States * ''Transamerica'' (film), a 2005 comedy-drama film * ''Transamerica'' (soundtrack), the 2005 film's soundtrack * Transamerica Airlines, a defunct airline which offered charter service from and within the United States * Transamerica Corporation, a holding company for various life insurance companies and investment firms in the United States * Transamerica Plaque, a discontinued annual award in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League * Transamerica Pyramid, the second-tallest skyscraper in San Francisco, owned by the Transamerica Corporation * Transamerica Tower (Baltimore) * Transamérica Pop, a Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Música Popular Brasileira
(, ''Brazilian Popular Music'') or MPB is a trend in post-bossa nova urban popular music in Brazil that revisits typical Brazilian styles such as samba, samba-canção and Baião (music), baião and other Brazilian regional music, combining them with foreign influences, such as jazz and rock music, rock. This movement has produced and is represented by many Brazilian artists, such as Jorge Ben Jor, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Djavan, Novos Baianos, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Belchior (singer), Belchior and Elis Regina, whose individual styles generated their own trends within the genre. The term often also describes any kind of music with Brazilian origins and "voice and guitar style" that arose in the late 1960s. Variations within MPB were the short-lived but influential artistic movement known as tropicália, and the music of samba rock. MPB songs are in part characterized by their harmonic complexity and their elaborate lyrics, which call back to a conne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pernambuco
Pernambuco ( , , ) is a States of Brazil, state of Brazil located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.5 million people as of 2024, it is the List of Brazilian states by population, seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,067.877 km2, it is the List of Brazilian states by area, 19th-largest in area among federative units of the country. It is also the sixth-most densely populated with around 92.37 people per km2. Its capital and largest city, Recife, is one of the most important economic and urban hubs in the country. Based on 2019 estimates, the Recife metropolitan area, Recife Metropolitan Region is seventh-most populous in the country, and the second-largest in Northeast Region, Brazil, northeastern Brazil. In 2015, the state had 4.4% of the national population and produced 2.8% of the national gross domestic product (GDP). The contemporary state inherits its name from the Captaincy of Pernambuco, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transamérica FM Curitiba Advertisement, 1977
Transamerica or Transamerican may refer to: * ''TransAmerica'' (board game), a railroad board game * The Transamerica or Transamerica Senior Golf Championship, a golf tournament in Napa, California 1989–2002 * TransAmerica Athletic Conference * TransAmerica Bicycle Trail * TransAmerica Bike Route, a cross-country bicycle route east of the Mississippi River in the United States * ''Transamerica'' (film), a 2005 comedy-drama film * ''Transamerica'' (soundtrack), the 2005 film's soundtrack * Transamerica Airlines, a defunct airline which offered charter service from and within the United States * Transamerica Corporation, a holding company for various life insurance companies and investment firms in the United States * Transamerica Plaque, a discontinued annual award in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League * Transamerica Pyramid, the second-tallest skyscraper in San Francisco, owned by the Transamerica Corporation * Transamerica Tower (Baltimore) * Transamérica Pop, a Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transamérica Pop
Transamérica Pop was a Brazilian radio network owned by Rede Transamérica. The network was directed to a young audience and has programming that highlights the musical genres pop, rock and hip hop. It was created in 1990 at the start of the satellite transmissions of Transamérica. The Transamérica Pop network expanded to fourteen stations in Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ... (cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasília, Curitiba, Recife, Balneário Camboriú and Montes Claros). On July 22, 2019, Transamérica confirmed the beginning of the unification of the carriers Transamérica Hits and Transamérica Pop, returning to the way of working before the division into carriers. Transamerica also confirmed that the new music programming would be c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (CHR, also known as contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 Record chart, music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock music, rock, pop music, pop, or Urban contemporary, urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary music, adult contemporary, Urban contemporary music, urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador () is a Municipalities of Brazil, Brazilian municipality and capital city of the Federative units of Brazil, state of Bahia. Situated in the Zona da Mata in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of Brazil, Salvador is recognized throughout the country and internationally for its #Cuisine, cuisine, #Music, music, and #Pelourinho, architecture. The African influence in many cultural aspects of the city makes it a center of Afro-Brazilian culture. As the Capitals of Brazil, first capital of Colonial Brazil, the city is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, one of the oldest in the Americas. Its foundation in 1549 by Tomé de Sousa took place on account of the implementation of the List of governors-general of Brazil, General Government of Brazil by the Portuguese Empire. Centralization as a capital, along with Portuguese colonization, were important factors in shaping the profile of the municipality, as were certain geographic characteristics. The construct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the List of largest cities in Brazil, sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million. It is the List of cities in South America, 13th-largest city in South America and the Largest cities in the Americas, 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Greater Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, ranked as the List of metropolitan areas in Brazil, third most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and the List of metropolitan areas in the Americas, 17th most populous in the Americas. Belo Horizonte is the capital of States of Brazil, the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil's List of Brazilian states by population, second-most populous state. It is the first planned modern city in Brazil. The region was first settled in the early 18th century, but the city as it is known today was planned and constructed in the 1890s to replace Ouro Preto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
