Silvio Santos

Silvio Santos ( born December 12, 1930 in Rio de Janeiro; actually Senor Abravanel ) is a Brazilian presenter and media entrepreneur and owner of the station network SBT.

Origin

Senor Abravanel, who has the artist name Silvio Santos gained, descended from Sephardic Jews, whose patriarch Judah Abravanel 1310 as a wealthy tax collector, clothier and creditors Pedro of Castile ( 1260-1283 ), a son of Alfonso X, is documented in Seville. With the Alhambra Decree in 1492, the family left Castile towards Greece, so that Santos descendant of Greek-Turkish immigrants.

Life

In the first television network in Brazil Tupi speech designed Santos in the 1960s, a special program on Channel 4 in São Paulo. Through relations with the military government and with the help of his friend Manoel de Nóbrega, he acquired the license in 1976 for its own TV station, Rio de Janeiro's channel 11, called TV Studios ( TVS ) has been sent by the Programa Silvio Santos Sundays be.

With the end of Assis Chateaubriand's speech Tupi in 1980 Santos bought from the bankrupt São Paulo's Channel 4, Porto Alegre and Belém Channel 5 Channel 5 and formed SBT. Numerous productions and Mexican soap operas, telenovelas and entertainment programming from Televisa brought SBT in 2nd place in the popularity of Brazilian stations.

In a restructuring in the late 1990s Santos invested $ 170 million. Today, his TV network also provides yet Time Warner - productions and game shows. Santos produced several international television shows for Brazil as Millionaire? , Wheel of Fortune or Deal or No Deal. Silvio Santos discovered numerous talents of the Brazilian television.

Silvio Santos comes from humble and has created through his speaking talent and entrepreneurial spirit, a large number of companies. As an individual, it is the largest taxpayer in Brazil. Despite his age he stands in front of the camera almost daily. His shows, which are almost always about money, enjoy extraordinary popularity. For Grupo Silvio Santos ( GSS) now has 32 companies, including banks, insurance, hotels and cosmetics companies with a turnover of U.S. $ 1.5 billion (1997).

Santos daughter Patricia Abravanel ( b. 1977 ) was kidnapped in Sao Paulo in 2001. The family paid $ 200,000 ransom.