TV Bahia

TV Bahia (channel 11) is a television station in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo. Owned by Rede Bahia, TV Bahia is the principal station of Rede Bahia de Televisão, a statewide television network composed of another five owned-and-operated stations. TV Bahia's studios and transmitter are located on Prof. Aristídes Novis Street in the Federação district, in Salvador. Its terrestrial signal, through the station in Salvador and translators, reaches 133 cities in the state. Currently, besides being the leader in Salvador, it has the largest ratings among Globo's stations in Brazil.

TV Bahia is the fourth oldest television station in Bahia, having officially started broadcasting ten months after receiving the authorization for channel 11 VHF in Salvador from the federal government, on March 10, 1985. It was inaugurated as an Rede Manchete affiliate, starting its operations with the most modern equipment among the state's television stations at the time.

It became a partner of Rede Globo in 1987, after a troubled transition process, marked by a long judicial and political dispute initiated by the owners of TV Aratu (channel 4). With the Globo affiliation, it made its first big expansion of local programming, premiering two editions of the now-traditional newscast ''BATV'' and ''Jornal da Manhã'', its first morning newscast. The affiliation with the Rio de Janeiro network turned TV Bahia into the station with the largest audience in Bahia.

History

Rede Manchete (1985–1987)

On May 7, 1984, Televisão Bahia Ltda. received a concession to operate a television broadcasting service in Salvador in a decree issued by then-president João Figueiredo. Initially, the station's shareholders were the entrepreneurs Antônio Carlos Magalhães Júnior (ACM Júnior) and César Mata Pires. The company, which was authorized to operate on channel 11 VHF in Salvador, also had Luís Eduardo Magalhães and Oscar Maron as shareholders.

In August of the same year, however, it was reported that the Federal Government was considering revoking the concession of the future station due to the adoption of a critical stance towards the regime by former governor Antônio Carlos Magalhães (a relative of part of the company's shareholders), which at first, prejudiced affiliation negotiations with Rede Manchete.

Finally, the license was maintained, and the creation of TV Bahia was officially announced to the market on January 9, 1985, at a dinner held at the Bahiano Tennis Club. The new TV station in Salvador would be the first partner of Rede Manchete in Bahia, and the event included a speech by Rubens Furtado, then-director general of the Rio de Janeiro network.

TV Bahia was installed with the most modern equipment among television stations in the state of Bahia at the time. In its early days, the station had five editing islands, state-of-the-art VT equipment, a 300-kW transmitter, and the tallest TV antenna in northern and northeastern Brazil. On February 2, the day of the Iemanjá Festival, TV Bahia conducted its first experimental operations on VHF channel 11.

Initially, TV Bahia was to start its activities on February 28, 1985, but the inauguration was delayed. The station finally signed on for the first time on March 10, 1985, at 6:45 pm, with the transmission of an inauguration ceremony presented by Xuxa Meneghel, then host of the children's program ''Clube da Criança'' on Rede Manchete, as well as Governor of Bahia João Durval Carneiro, former governor Antônio Carlos Magalhães and Catholic cardinal Avelar Brandão Vilela.

After the ceremony, TV Bahia broadcast its inaugural program: ''Bahia de Todos os Santos'', a documentary directed by filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos. The first local program after the station's inauguration was the sports journalistic program ''Manchete Esportiva Bahia'', a local version of the program with the same name from Rede Manchete, aired live at 12:30 pm on March 11, 1985, and hosted by Ivan Pedro.

TV Bahia began its activities with coverage in the cities of Feira de Santana (channel 8), Ilhéus (channel 13), Itabuna (channel 9), Jequié (channel 2) and Vitória da Conquista (channel 10). Programming was retransmitted to the interior of the state via translator stations maintained by the Bahia State Telecommunications Department (Detelba), which used microwave links from Telecommunications of Bahia (Telebahia), the same structure used by the other stations in the capital.

In its first year of existence, TV Bahia achieved significant ratings in Salvador. In the first month, ''Manchete Esportiva Bahia'' achieved vice-leadership several times, beating the traditional ''Telesportes'', from TV Itapoan (channel 5). Also in March, TV Bahia was the ratings leader on Tuesday evenings. During the year, the station also reached the second place in several programs, including ''Bahia em Manchete''.

TV Globo (1987–present)

On November 10, 1986, Rede Globo made official the non-renewal of its affiliation contract with TV Aratu (channel 4), which had been its affiliate since 1969, ordering that the station cease broadcasting the network's programming on January 20, 1987, after the end of the extension of the end of the partnership. Globo had already expressed to TV Aratu its intention not to renew the affiliation contract on February 24 of that year, alleging dissatisfaction existing since 1984 on the part of Globo regarding technical and commercial problems of the then Bahia affiliate. The station chosen to replace TV Aratu was TV Bahia. As Globo's final decision occurred shortly before Organizações Globo's purchase of NEC's Brazilian branch, in December of that year, opponents of ACM, to which TV Aratu was associated, raised suspicions that that Globo president Roberto Marinho's decision was a way to thank him for the minister's alleged support of the transaction, in order to try to reverse the loss of affiliation.

On January 13, 1987, congressman Luís Viana Neto, of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), one of the shareholders of TV Aratu and member of the political group of then governor Waldir Pires

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