TV Verdes Mares

TV Verdes Mares (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo. Owned by Sistema Verdes Mares, subsidiary of Grupo Edson Queiroz, it is part of a duopoly with Fortaleza-licensed independent station TV Diário (channel 22). TV Verdes Mares's studios and transmitter are located on Desembargador Moreira Avenue, in the Dionísio Torres district, on Fortaleza.

History

Background history (1962–1970)

In 1962, the industrialist Moisés Pimentel, owner of Rádio Dragão do Mar (690 kHz, now Rádio Shalom Dragão do Mar), obtained a television license to operate on the VHF channel 10. In the same year, he was elected federal deputy through the Social Labour Party. While preparing the installation of TV Dragão do Mar, as the station would be branded, he presented to the local media all the equipment purchased for the project. However, due to the 1964 coup d'état, he was arrested and had his political office revoked on April 17 and ended up losing the TV and radio licenses. In June 1965, then Mayor of Fortaleza Murilo Borges, denounced the "subversive" character of the station, even without having started its operations.

In July of the same year, the entrepreneur Edson Queiroz acquires a TV license from Contel, approved on May 23, 1969, by then-president Costa e Silva. On July 30, the concession of the 10 VHF channel is finally handed over to Queiroz. Sixty days later, at a lunch at Fortaleza Air Base in honor of Wing Week, Edson officially announced the implementation of the second television channel in Fortaleza, which until then had only one TV station, TV Ceará (channel 2), a Rede Tupi owned-and-operated station, owned by the Diários Associados group.

On October 23, 1969, the station's signal went on air experimentally, not yet with the TV Verdes Mares branding. In record time, Queiroz began assembling the structure of the station, which would be located in an area of 9 000 m² in the Estância Castelo district (now Dionísio Torres).

Independent station (1970–1974)

On January 31, 1970, at 7:30 pm, TV Verdes Mares was officially inaugurated, with a mass celebrated at the station's headquarters and the premiere of newscast ''Telejornal Padrão'', with a duration of 20 minutes, anchored by journalist Mardônio Sampaio. The opening party had the presence of Hebe Camargo, Ronald Golias and Pedrinho Mattar.

In its beginnings, the station signed on at noon, with a 20-minute newscast anchored by Cirênio Cordeiro. At 10 pm, another newscast was broadcast, in a magazine format. Irapuan Lima and Matos Dourado hosted two auditorium variety shows at this time, while the other part of the schedule was filled with programs from Rede Globo and Rede de Emissoras Independentes, headed by TV Record and TV Rio. Inspired by sister radio station Rádio Verdes Mares (810 kHz), which had was acquired by Edson Queiroz seven years before its launch, most of its professionals were brought from the station. In a short time on the air, TV Verdes Mares surpasses TV Ceará's ratings.

From 1973 onwards, TV Verdes Mares began to have translator stations in the interior of Ceará and to some cities in other states, such as Mossoró, in Rio Grande do Norte.

TV Globo (1974–present)

In 1974, it began broadcasting Globo's programming as an official affiliate, and in the same year, it made the first color television broadcast throughout the Northeast of Brazil, during the broadcast of the Sereia de Ouro Trophy award, which happened on September 7. From 1994 onwards, it began to build its own transmission line for the translator stations in the interior.

In 2009, a new television news format was adopted in the station. In January, the new sports show ''Globo Esporte Ceará'' debuted, with longer duration and a couple of presenters, and in March, the newscasts ''Jornal do 10'' and ''Jornal do Meio Dia'' were replaced by two editions of ''CETV'', adapting to the standard format adopted nationally by Rede Globo and its affiliates.

On October 8, 2018, TV Verdes Mares's newscasts began be presented in a newsroom built to integrate all the vehicles of Sistema Verdes Mares, in addition to the debut of new graphic and sound packages.

Identification

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