The Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão is a Brazilian television network founded on August 19, 1981, by the businessman and television personality Silvio Santos. The company was established after a public tender by the Brazilian Federal Government to form two new networks, created from revoked concessions of the defunct Tupi and Excelsior networks. SBT was funded in the same day that the concession agreement was signed, and that the act was broadcast live by the network, so that this was his first program aired. Before acquiring the concessions of the four station that were to form the SBT, Grupo Silvio Santos had since 1976 the concession of Rio de Janeiro's channel 11, known as TVS Rio de Janeiro, which was a fundamental step to give life to SBT.
Universo Online is a Brazilian web content, products and services company. It belongs to Grupo Folha enterprise.
TVI - initialism for Televisão Independente - is Portugal's fourth terrestrial television channel, launched in 1993. It was the most watched channel in Portugal from 2005 to 2019. It competes directly with SIC and RTP1. It is one of the two private free-to-air channels in Portugal, among the seven terrestrial free-to-air channels broadcasting from the country.
RecordTV, formerly known as Rede Record, 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. 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. In June 2021, it ranked second among the most watched channels in the country in the National Television Panel, behind only TV Globo.
AstralSat, also known as DTH Interactive Telecomunicação Ltda, is or was a satellite television service in Brazil that was the first such service in that country to offer prepaid subscription TV.
Benfica TV (BTV) is a Portuguese sports-oriented premium cable and satellite television channel operated by sports club S.L. Benfica. Its headquarters are located at the Estádio da Luz, having a second studio at Benfica Campus. Its first broadcast was on 2 October 2008, and regular transmissions began on 10 December. The channel was originally made available for free on all of its cable operators until June 2013.
TV Globo Internacional is an international pay television channel broadcasting from Brazil. It was launched on 24 August 1999 and it is owned by Grupo Globo.
YouTube Creator Awards, commonly known as YouTube Play Buttons or YouTube Plaques, are a series of awards from YouTube that aim to recognize its most popular channels. They are based on a channel's subscriber count but are offered at the sole discretion of YouTube. Each channel is reviewed before an award is issued, to ensure that the channel follows the YouTube community guidelines. YouTube reserves the right to refuse to hand out a Creator Award, which it has done for channels featuring horror or extremist political content.
Mia Khalifa is a Lebanese-American media personality, former pornographic actress, and webcam model. She began acting in pornography in October 2014, becoming the most viewed performer on Pornhub in two months. Her career choice was met with controversy in the Middle East, especially for a video in which she performed sexual acts while wearing a hijab.
Whindersson Nunes Batista is a Brazilian comedian, singer, and YouTuber known for his comedy videos since 2013.
Felipe Neto Rodrigues Vieira is a Brazilian-Portuguese manager, vlogger, actor, comedy actor, and writer. He is a well known YouTuber in Brazil with more than 43 million subscribers making his channel the 43rd most-subscribed on the website. He started his YouTube career by talking about celebrities, movies, daily activities in some criticizing or comic way, being the first YouTube channel to reach 17 million subscribers in Brazil. He is also the brother of YouTuber Luccas Neto. Currently, his videos focus on general entertainment.
Joice Cristina Hasselmann is a Brazilian politician, journalist, writer, activist, and political commentator.
The 56th Legislature of National Congress is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the Federal Government of Brazil, composed by the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. It convened in Brasília on 1 February 2019, a month after the beginning of Jair Bolsonaro's current term as president, and will end on January 31, 2023 .
The COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Brazil on 25 February 2020, when a man from São Paulo who had traveled to Italy tested positive for the virus. The disease had spread to every federative unit of Brazil by 21 March. On 19 June 2020, the country reported its one millionth case and nearly 49,000 reported deaths. One estimate of under-reporting was 22.62% of total reported COVID-19 mortality in 2020.
Fabricio André Bernard di Paolo, known professionally as Lord Vinheteiro, is a Brazilian pianist, sound engineer, aquarist, and YouTuber. He is known for playing piano covers on his YouTube channel where he has over 6 million subscribers. He was a part of the Pânico program, from Jovem Pan FM in Brazil.
Events in the year 2021 in Brazil.
The 2021 Brazilian protests are popular demonstrations that took place in different regions of Brazil, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Protests both supporting and opposing government happened.
Terça Livre was a Brazilian news portal maintained by Allan Lopes dos Santos and Italo Lorenzon Neto. The channel gained notoriety in the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections for its proximity with the then PSL candidate and later Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and by producing content aligned with conservatism and right ideas.
The COVID-19 CPI, also known as Pandemic CPI, Coronavirus CPI, or simply COVID CPI, is a parliamentary commission of inquiry undergoing in Brazil, with the goal to investigate alleged omissions and irregularities in federal government spending during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. It was created on April 13, 2021 and officially installed in the Brazilian Senate on April 27, 2021. It ended with the voting of the final report on October 26, 2021.
