The Maria Helena Mendes de Barros Saad Tower, more commonly known as Torre da TV Bandeirantes, or Torre da Band, is a television and radio

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located in the district of Consolação, near the

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, Brazil. Owned by the Brazilian media company

Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação (commonly referred only as Grupo Bandeirantes or Bandeirantes) is a Brazilian media conglomerate founded on the creation of the first group communication vehicle, Rádio Bandeirantes, on May 6, 1937. Companies ...

, the tower is 212 m (696 ft) high, making it the tallest tower in São Paulo and one of the tallest towers in Latin America. Its name is in honor of the wife of the founder of Rede Bandeirantes, João Saad.

History

The tower is privately owned by Brazilian

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Rede Bandeirantes Rede Bandeirantes (, ''Bandeirantes Network''), or simply known as Band (), is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It began broadcasting on May 13, 1967 on VHF channel 13 in São Paulo. Its founder was businessman João Saad with t ...

and the tower is not accessible to the public. It was completed in 1997 replacing the old transmitters of TV Bandeirantes São Paulo and Band FM in Pico do Jaraguá. 650 tons of steel were used in the construction of the tower. The tower is one of the tallest freestanding towers in Latin America and the tower is among the tallest structures in South America. The tower used yellow lighting until June 2011 when it was replaced by a new lighting system using nearly 30,000 LED lamps designed by Peter Gasper and Fabio Ribeiro. The inauguration of the new lighting system was shown live by Rede Bandeirantes, through the special Band Ilumina a Cidade. The lighting system has since been switched off to save on electrical costs. At the end of 2019, BandNews FM São Paulo moved its broadcasting system to the tower, replacing the old one that was at Edifício Paulista I, on Avenida Paulista.https://tudoradio.com/noticias/ver/22700 The Bandeirantes Tower was the tallest structure in São Paulo until 2006, when a tv tower for

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was built on top of Alameda Santos, 680.

Tower tenants

Television

Radio

References

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