Record (TV network)

Record
TypeFree-to-air
Commercial broadcasting
Television network
CountryBrazil
StationsRecord Belém
Record Brasília
Record Cabrália
Record Goiás
Record Interior RJ
Record Interior SP
Record Bahia
Record Litoral e Vale
Record Manaus
Record Minas
Record Paulista
Record Rio
Record Rio Preto
Record RS
Record São Paulo
Affiliatessee List of Record affiliates
HeadquartersSão Paulo, Brazil
Programming
Language(s)Portuguese
Picture format1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 480i for the SD feed)
Ownership
ParentGrupo Record
Key peopleEdir Macedo (chairman), Luiz Cláudio Costa (president)
Sister channelsRecord Internacional
Record News
History
Launched27 September 1953; 71 years ago (1953-09-27)
FounderPaulo Machado de Carvalho
Former namesTV Record (1953–1990)
Rede Record (1990–2016)
RecordTV (2016–2023)
Links
Websiterecordtv.r7.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Analog VHF07 VHF (Itabuna)
Digital terrestrial television

Record (Portuguese: [ʁeˈkɔʁ]), formerly known as Rede Record and RecordTV, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It is currently the second largest commercial TV station in Brazil, and the 28th largest in the 2012 world ranking.[1][2] In 2010, it was elected by the advertising market as the fifth largest station in the world in revenues and the eighth largest network in physical structure.[3] In June 2021, it ranked second among the most watched channels in the country in the National Television Panel, behind only TV Globo.[4]

As the main member of the media company Grupo Record, the network is headquartered in São Paulo, where most of its programming is also generated at the Dermeval Gonçalves Theater, and has a branch in Rio de Janeiro, where its telenovelas and other formats are produced at the Casablanca Estúdios (RecNov) complex. Its national coverage is achieved by retransmission from 111 stations, 15 of which are owned by the company and 96 of which are affiliate stations.

The station was inaugurated in the city of São Paulo on September 27, 1953, by businessman Paulo Machado de Carvalho, owner until then of a radio conglomerate, through a concession obtained in November 1950, the year television was launched in Brazil. TV Record was the fourth station to operate in the country after TV Tupi São Paulo (1950), TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro (1951) and TV Paulista (1952).

During the 1960s, the channel became popular, even leading in audience, with the exhibition of music festivals such as MPB and Jovem Guarda.[5] In this period, Record headed the Rede de Emissoras Independentes (REI), a chain that integrated stations from various locations in Brazil. In the 1970s, the businessman and TV host Silvio Santos acquired half of the channel's shares through a partnership with Machado de Carvalho. In 1989, Record, after being under unfavorable financial situation in the second half of that decade, was sold to Bishop Edir Macedo, founder and leader of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.

The new acquisition spurred major investments in the structure of the station, which in the 1990s formed its national network with purchases of channels and affiliations, resulting in its positioning, from 2007 to 2015, as the country's second largest network in audience and revenues until it was overtaken by SBT until May 2024.[6] As of 2012, both stations began to intensely dispute point tenths and take turns in the IBOPE ranking.[7]

  1. ^ Lucas, Adriano S. (15 October 2013). "Top 10 maiores emissoras de TV do mundo" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  2. ^ Willmersdorf, Com Pedro (19 February 2021). "Globo sobe em ranking e torna-se segunda maior emissora do mundo!". Acervo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  3. ^ "As 10 maiores emissoras de Tv do mundo". Jornal Diário do Estado (in Brazilian Portuguese). 16 June 2021. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Saiba qual foi a audiência de todas as emissoras no Brasil em junho". TV Pop (in Brazilian Portuguese). 1 July 2021. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  5. ^ "A história da TV Record". Museu da TV, Rádio & Cinema (in Brazilian Portuguese). 1 March 2017. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Folha Online – Ilustrada – Vamos bater a Globo até 2009, diz vice-presidente da Record – 16/03/2007". www1.folha.uol.com.br. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  7. ^ "SBT completa sete meses à frente da Record em audiência". F5 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 4 February 2015. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.