RBS TV is a Southern

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ian

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network owned by

Grupo RBS Grupo RBS is a Brazilian media conglomerate founded on August 31, 1957 by Maurício Sirotsky Sobrinho. One of Brazil’s largest communication groups, it is also the largest one affiliated with Rede Globo. The media group is made up by radio and ...

, and one of the oldest

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affiliates. The acronym originally stood for Rede Brasil Sul de Televisão (

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: "Brazil South Television Network"), but currently the network never uses its full name on-air. RBS TV owns 12

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s in

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

. RBS TV

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is the headquarters for the network. RBS TV stations produce an average amount of local and regional programming, composed mainly of

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, but also

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s, variety and youth programming.

History

''TV Gaúcha'' was created in 1962 in

, and would later become ''RBS TV Porto Alegre''. The following year, TV Gaúcha affiliated itself with

Rede Excelsior Rede Excelsior was a Brazilian television network founded by Mário Wallace Simonsen on July 9, 1960, in São Paulo, São Paulo. Its last broadcast happened on September 30, 1970, when the Brazilian military dictatorship put an abrupt end to ...

was launched in

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two years later, but TV Gaúcha would only become its affiliate in 1967. In 1979, it started to operate in

Florianópolis Florianópolis () is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South region of Brazil. The city encompasses Santa Catarina Island and surrounding small islands, as well as part of the mainland. It has a populat ...

, 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

Rio Grande do Sul

Santa Catarina (formerly)

*RBS TV Florianópolis (

) - 12 *RBS TV Blumenau (

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) - 3 *RBS TV Centro-Oeste (

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) - 6 *RBS TV Chapecó (

Chapecó Chapecó () is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina, in the Southern Region of Brazil. Being a major industrial, financial and educational center, it is a major producer of industrialized food products. Considered a medium city, with a p ...

) - 11 *RBS TV Criciúma (

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) - 9 *RBS TV Joinville (

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) - 5

Corporate slogans (translated to English)

* 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

The RBS Group is being investigated by the practice of

oligopoly An oligopoly (from Greek ὀλίγος, ''oligos'' "few" and πωλεῖν, ''polein'' "to sell") is a market structure in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of large sellers or producers. Oligopolies often result from ...

monopoly A monopoly (from Greek language, Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situati ...

. 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

(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. 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".http://www.cartamaior.com.br/templates/materiaMostrar.cfm?materia_id=16264

Notes

External links

Official Site

Grupo RBS official site
{{Free-to-air television channels in Brazil Television networks in Brazil Grupo RBS TV Globo affiliates Mass media in Porto Alegre Companies based in Rio Grande do Sul Portuguese-language television networks Television channels and stations established in 1962 Television channels and stations disestablished in 1992 1962 establishments in Brazil 1992 disestablishments in Brazil