Central Nacional de Televisão (English: ''National Television Center'') also known as CNT and Rede CNT, is a Brazilian

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based in

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, state of Paraná. Part of the Organizações Martinez Group, it aired for the first time in 1979 initially as TV Tropical.

History

CNT was founded on March 15, 1979 by entrepreneur and politician José Carlos Martinez as a local station called ''TV Tropical'', originally affiliated to

Rede Globo TV Globo (stylized as tvglobo; , ), formerly known as Rede Globo de Televisão (; shortened to Rede Globo) or simply known as Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965 ...

until it was sold to

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in 1980. In 1982, the station was renamed as ''Rede OM'', and was subsequently renamed as CNT in 1993 after becoming a national network the previous year. CNT is currently chaired by entrepreneur and politician (and brother) Flávio de Castro Martinez, who took over after José Carlos Martinez's death in 2003.

Partnership with Televisa

The television network CNT closed contract with the Mexican television network

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, going to show the soap Manancial in August 2008. Televisa's other productions came as ''Sueños y caramels'', ''SOS: Sexo y otros Secretos'' and ''¿Y ahora qué hago?''.

Network coverage

With broadcasters themselves, affiliates and repeaters, CNT based network to a program of national scope in recent years working from five strategic poles:

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, Salvador,

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and

. Reaches more than 15 million households, equivalent to 50 million viewers, a large part of Brazil (5 stations and 43 repeaters). And during the coming years to improve its fleet and expand its technical signal to all of Brazil.

Digital broadcasts

The CNT was the first to use this technology for its stations and affiliates starting in 1999. The stations comprising the network receive programming in digital quality using

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satellite channeling.

Crisis

As of 2024, the channel has extremely low ratings (averaging 0.1% share), with the channel leasing 22 hours of its daily schedule to the

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. Its limited programming outside of these slots consists of news and government advertising, with the news output being produced from Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro. ''CNT Esporte'' reached a record of 1.1% share on January 17, 2024, yet despite receiving donations from viewers, it doesn't surpass its average. All of its archives have been wiped - the archives were recorded using an expensive

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format, which made archiving its output near impossible.

Programs

References

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