Super Rádio Tupi (or simply Rádio Tupi) is a Brazilian

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based in the city of

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. It specialises in

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, and

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broadcasting on FM 96.5

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. Rádio Tupi was inaugurated in 1935 by the journalist

Assis Chateaubriand Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo (pronounced ), also nicknamed Chatô (October 4, 1892 – April 4, 1968), was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat. He was founder and director of the then main press chain o ...

, and is owned by media conglomerate

Diários Associados The Diários Associados, or Associated Dailies, are a union of Brazilian communication media created by Assis Chateaubriand. Diários Associados owned Rede Tupi, the first Brazilian television network, through its affiliate, the Rede de Emissor ...

. Its studios are located in the Rio de Janeiro headquarters of Diários Associados, in the neighborhood of

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. It is the second most listened to radio station in Rio de Janeiro, with 210 thousand listeners per minute between 5am and midnight, in June and August 2020.

History

Rádio Tupi was inaugurated by the journalist Assis Chateaubriand on September 25, 1935, in a ceremony attended by radio transmission pioneer

Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (; 25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italians, Italian inventor and electrical engineering, electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based Wireless telegrap ...

. Marconi's Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company supplied the radio station's first transmitter. In 1942, Almirante (Henrique Foréis Domingues), a Rádio Tupi

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, launched a competition to select Portuguese lyrics to the

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of the popular English language

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''. The winning entry was '' Parabéns a Você'', written by Berta Celeste. In December 2016, Rádio Tupi's employees conducted three separate strikes, lasting 24, 48 and 72 hours, due to payments that they were due, being delayed. Then as of December 30, 2016, in a meeting with the Union of Radio Broadcasters in Rio de Janeiro, Rádio Tupi's employees decided to strike indefinitely. 35 days later on February 4, 2016, Rádio Tupi returned to the air, and in the following week 41 striking employees were dismissed.

Awards

In 2015, Rádio Tupi

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Róbson Machado de Souza, received an honourable mention, in the radio category of the 37th

Vladimir Herzog Award Vladimir Herzog Award ( Portuguese: ''Prêmio Jornalistico Vladimir Herzog de Anistia e Direitos Humanos'') is a Brazilian award for journalists who excel in the coverage of human rights issues in the national press. It was created in 1979 by t ...

s for amnesty and human rights.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.tupi.fm Radio stations established in 1935 Radio stations in Brazil 1935 establishments in Brazil Diários Associados