The Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão is a Brazilian free-to-air television network founded on Wednesday, 19 August 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. The SBT was founded on 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 stations 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 the SBT.
Globosat, was a Brazilian pay television content service, part of Grupo Globo. Established in 1991, after the creation of subscription television services in Brazil, with 29 channels and over 1,000 employees, it is the largest pay television content provider in Brazil, as well as of Latin America, comprising a domestic audience of 45 million viewers distributed among more than 15 million households.
Luana Elídia Afonso Piovani is a Brazilian actress, TV host, and former model.
Marília Soares Pêra was a Brazilian actress, singer and theater director. Throughout her career, she won around 80 awards, acting in 49 plays, 29 soap operas and more than 20 films.
José Wilker Almeida was a Brazilian film, stage, and television actor and director. The actor gained fame in telenovelas like Roque Santeiro (1985), but became known internationally for his role as Vadinho, the husband who returns from the dead to tempt Sônia Braga's character in the movie Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976).
Multishow is an entertainment channel owned by Canais Globo, Grupo Globo's cable and satellite television channel operator. It was launched in 1991, as one of the company's first four channels. A high-definition simulcast was launched on December 15, 2012, at 11:59 pm Brazilian Summer Time (UTC-02), with a live telecast of a Rolling Stones concert at the Prudential Center.
GNT is a Brazilian pay television channel. Originally launched as GNT: Globosat News Television, a news and information network. With the launch of GloboNews, in 1996, the GNT acronym became meaningless, and the channel was focused on documentaries and talk shows. In 2003, the channel was once again repositioned, with increased female-oriented programming, such as successful talk show Saia Justa. However, some original GNT programs remain, such as Manhattan Connection, currently the longest-running original program on Brazilian subscription television, though that program moved to GloboNews in January 2011.
Grupo Globo, formerly and still legally known as Organizações Globo, is a Brazilian private entertainment and mass media conglomerate based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1925 by Irineu Marinho, it is the largest media group in Latin America, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates.
Andréa Maltarolli was a Brazilian soap opera and telenovela screenwriter.
Tatiana Issa is a three-time Emmy Award winning Brazilian director and executive producer known for her 2009 documentary film Dzi Croquettes, the series "Brutal Pact: The Murder of Daniella Perez" for HBO MAX, and "Queens on the Run" for Amazon Prime.
Marcello Tolentino Novaes is a Brazilian actor.
Mônica Rodrigues Carvalho is a Brazilian actress and former model.
Ingrid da Silva Guimarães is a Brazilian actress, comedian and television presenter.
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.
Manhattan Connection was a Brazilian talk show, aired from 1993 to 2021, then back in 2023. It was created and anchored by journalist Lucas Mendes. The program is taped in New York and was originally broadcast in Brazil on GNT channel, part of Globosat. In 2011, Manhattan Connection moved to the Globo News channel, also part of the Globo cable system. The last episode on Globo News was aired on 22 November 2020. The program was scheduled to return in January 2021, this time on TV Cultura
The Bachelor, also known as The Bachelor: Em Busca do Grande Amor was a Brazilian reality television series, based on the American television series of the same name, which premiered November 21, 2014 on RedeTV!. The show features 44-year-old Italian businessman, Gianluca Perino, courting 25 women.
Tamara de Braga Taxman is a Brazilian actress, singer, television presenter and writer. She is best known for portraying the witch Leocádia, in the children's TV series Detetives do Prédio Azul.
Globoplay is a Brazilian subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Grupo Globo. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by Estúdios Globo with the service also hosting content from other providers, content add-ons, live sporting events, and video rental and purchasing services. It was created on October 26, 2015, and launched in Brazil on November 3 of the same year. In 2020, it reached the milestone of 20 million registered users and became the most used national streaming service in Brazil.
Gloob, also known as Mundo Gloob, is a Brazilian pay television children's channel that was launched on 15 June 2012, aimed at children 6 to 12 years old. Owned, operated and part of Canais Globo, a television broadcast network, and subsidiary of Grupo Globo. Its name is an anagram of the word 'Globo', as in 'O Globo', reversing the letter "O" before the "B".
Cláudia Maria Patitucci Jimenez was a Brazilian actress, comedienne and screenwriter. She started her career in 1979 in the TV show Malu Mulher, but it was from the 1980s onwards that she began to stand out, working with humour in shows such as Os Trapalhões, Viva O Gordo and Chico Anysio Show.
