Central Brasileira de Notícias (), or Rádio CBN for short, is a Brazilian news radio network, jointly owned by Sistema Globo de Rádio (

Grupo Globo Grupo Globo (), formerly and still legally known as Organizações Globo (), is a Brazilian privately held company, private entertainment and mass media conglomerate (company), conglomerate based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1925 by I ...

's radio division). It was created on 1 October 1991 as the first all news project on

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in Brazil, and broadcast news 24 hours a day. Nowadays, Rádio CBN has four owned-and-operated stations in the cities of

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ...

São Paulo São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte is the List of largest cities in Brazil, sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million. It is the List of cities in Sout ...

and

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. It also has 40 affiliate stations throughout the country. Since its creation, CBN's slogan has been "A rádio que toca notícia" (''The radio that plays the news''). Its anchor journalists are Carolina Morand, Carlos Alberto Sardenberg, Carlos Eduardo Éboli, Leandro Resende, Milton Jung, Rafael Colombo, Tania Morales, Tatiana Vasconcellos, etc. The company employs more than 200 other journalists.

Programming

CBN broadcasts two- to three-minute summaries, which provides the day's five key news stories and some notable sports stories, every half an hour, under the banner ''Repórter CBN''. Seven standard ''

hard news News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the te ...

'' strands of the current schedule are ''CBN Madrugada'', ''CBN Primeiras Noticias'', ''Jornal da CBN'', ''CBN Brasil'', ''Estúdio CBN'', ''Ponto Final CBN'' and ''CBN Noite Total''. At week some or all of it is taken up by live commentary of football matches. Other sport shows include ''Quatro em Campo'' and ''CBN Esportes.'' On weekend lunchtime the news review programme ''Revista CBN'' is broadcast. Other program an weekends is ''CBN Show da Notícia''. ''O Mundo em Meia Hora'' presents the week's key international stories and how they affect Brazilians. ''CBN Praça'' presents the local news. Weekend, all friday's, ''Fim de Expediente'' bring in relaxed way the news of week with special guests. Also are presents ''CBN AutoEsporte'' about motors and ''Bem-Estar em Movimento'' about health.

Owned-and-operated stations

: ZYD800 - FM 90.5 MHz (flagship) *

: ZYD464 - FM 92.5 MHz *

: ZYC733 - FM 106.1 MHz (licensed to Caeté) *

: ZYC480 - FM 95.3 MHz

References

External links

Official website
Brazilian radio networks News and talk radio stations Radio stations established in 1991 Grupo Globo subsidiaries Globo radio stations Mass media in Rio de Janeiro (city) Mass media in São Paulo 1991 establishments in Brazil {{Brazil-radio-station-stub