Central Brasileira de Notícias ( en, Brazilian News Center), or Rádio CBN for short, is a Brazilian news radio network, jointly owned by Sistema Globo de Rádio (

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's radio division). It was created on October 1, 1991 as the first

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project on

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in Brazil, and broadcast news 24 hours a day.Vincent, Jon.
Culture and Customs of Brazil
', p. 105 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003). Nowadays, Rádio CBN has four owned-and-operated stations in the cities of

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...

and

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. It also has 42 affiliate stations throughout the country. Since its creation, CBN's slogan has been "A rádio que toca notícia" (''The radio that plays the news''). Its anchor journalists are Carolina Morand, Carlos Alberto Sardenberg, Carlos Andreazza, Carlos Eduardo Éboli, Milton Jung, Rodrigo Bocardi, Tania Morales and Tatiana Vasconcellos. The company employs more than 200 other journalists.

Programming

CBN broadcasts two- to three-minute summaries, which provides the day's five key news stories and some notable sports stories, every half an hour, under the banner ''Repórter CBN''. Eight standard ''

hard news News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. New ...

'' strands of the current schedule are ''CBN Madrugada'', ''CBN Primeiras Noticias'', ''Jornal da CBN'', ''CBN em Foco'', ''CBN Brasil'', ''Estúdio CBN'', ''Ponto Final CBN'' and ''CBN Noite Total''. At weekends on a timeframe from 3pm to 9pm, some or all of it is taken up by live commentary of football matches, with the rest of it being covered by ''Show da Notícia''. Other sport shows include ''Quatro em Campo'' and ''CBN Esportes.'' On weekend lunchtime the news review programme ''Revista CBN'' is broadcast. ''O Mundo em Meia Hora'' presents the week's key international stories and how they affect Brazilians. ''CBN Praça'' presents the local news. Weekend, all friday's, ''Fim de Expediente'' bring in relaxed way the news of week with special guests. Also are presents ''CBN AutoEsporte'' about motors and ''Bem-Estar em Movimento'' about health.

Owned-and-operated stations

: ZYD800 - FM 90.5 MHz (flagship) *

: ZYD464 - FM 92.5 MHz *

: ZYC733 - FM 106.1 MHz (licensed to

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) *

: ZYC480 - FM 95.3 MHz

References

External links

Official website
Brazilian radio networks Radio stations established in 1991 Grupo Globo subsidiaries Globo radio stations Mass media in Rio de Janeiro (city) Mass media in São Paulo 1991 establishments in Brazil {{Brazil-radio-station-stub