TV Brasil
TV Brasil is a national television channel under control of the Brazilian Federal Government.
Structure and background
TV Brasil is the holding company Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC ) will hold, which was founded in October 2007 and operates out of TV Brasil and its international offshoots TV Brasil Internacional several radio channels and the news agency Agência Brasil. TV Brasil has been on air since 2 December 2007 - coinciding with the launch of terrestrial digital television in Brazil. On the same day since 1975 sent under indirect control of the Ministry of Education channel TVE Brasil ( Televisão Educativa ) has been set, went over its infrastructure and transmission frequencies to TV Brasil.
The stated goal of TV Brasil is informing the content of the TV range of Brazilian citizens: The emphasis is on information and educational programs, but also on artistic productions. ( First, in contrast to the on entertainment series, shows, sensations and sports concentrating commercial television channels in the country and second in the mainly European tradition of democracy committed public service broadcasting. ) The political project of an independent and democratic transmitter was under the social- democratic Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government initiated against the background a world dominated by a few families and predominantly by commercial objectives -oriented media landscape.
TV Brasil is headed by the respective presidents of the holding company EBC. To succeed in 2007 by President Lula appointed first EBC President Lula's successor Tereza Cruvinel of Dilma Rousseff longtime journalist Nelson Breve was appointed in 2011, who had previously served as Lula 's press secretary. About the program is a 22 -member program council, the majority of representatives of the civil society. The proportion of in-house productions of the transmitter is 45 percent, another 12 percent are produced by independent producers, who compete in the bidding process for contracts. TV Brasil is financed ( as the other channels of the EBC) from tax revenues of the federal budget. Chairman of the Board, the Federal Minister for Social Communications, Franklin Martins.
TV Brasil is free to receive throughout Brazil via satellite ( analogue and digital), as well as the channel is represented in all cable networks. In most parts of the country TV Brasil is also Terrestrial receivable, partly already in digital format ( according to the national standard SBTVD ). On the homepage of the station TV Brasil can also be received on the Internet, but in a limited choice of programs for legal reasons. Mainly due to the obsolete technical infrastructure and the low range in a still dominated by analog reception environment reaches TV Brasil average audience share of only around two percent.
TV Brasil Internacional
Since May 2010 sends the sister channel, TV Brasil Internacional, living abroad especially Brazilian, but to reach interested Portuguese-speaking citizens of other countries and also of Brazil. First, he was to receive in 49 countries in Africa over the paid satellite platform MultiChoice (or their cables offer). Meanwhile, single cable Proliferation contracts in South America, the USA and Portugal added, as well as an unencrypted transponders on the NSS 806 over South America. The distribution will be expanded gradually.
A previous project of TV Brasil Internacional as the Government-financed international television, but with a different orientation, was the Spanish-and Portuguese -language channel TV Brasil - Canal Integración: This was founded by the Lula government channel in 2004 represented the political aim of strengthening regional integration and taught about himself satellite to viewers in all of South America. He took in January 2005 on the sample and the following September the control mode. The first experimental broadcasts were made from 26 to 31 January 2005 under the Fifth World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (Brazil ), consisting of interviews, discussions, information and live - events. The second test run was carried out from 9 to 11 May 2005 at the Summit South America - Arab States of Brasília. Before the launch of TV Brasil Internacional TV Brasil was - Canal Integración set.