Alternative History
TV Globo
Rede Globo
Type Commercial broadcasting
television network
Branding Globo
Country
Availability International
Founded April 26, 1965
by Roberto Marinho
Slogan A gente se vê por aqui
Market share 44%
Headquarters Rio de Janeiro, Flag of Brazil Brazil
Area Brazil Worldwide (via Globo Internacional)
Parent Grupo Globo

Rede Globo is an open television station in Brazil. It is the largest television station in the country and in Latin America and the second in the world, losing to ABC, watched by more than 200 million viewers. it reaches 98.56% of the Brazilian territory, covering 5 490 municipalities and about 99.55% of the total Brazilian population.

The station is also one of the largest soap opera producers in the world and is part of Grupo Globo, one of the main media conglomerates on the planet. In addition to the broadcast abroad by TV Globo Internacional and subscription service in the country. It has its own Podcast, Globo Podcast.

Although on January 5, 1951, during the government of Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Rádio Globo applied for a television concession for the first time, it was only in July 1957 that then-president Juscelino Kubitschek approved the concession; at the end of December of the same year, the National Telecommunications Council published a decree granting channel 4 in Rio de Janeiro to TV Globo Ltda. The station began operating on April 26, 1965 and was founded by journalist Roberto Marinho. A year after starting its operations, in 1966, it was the fourth largest broadcaster in the country, being surpassed at the time by TV Tupi (3rd place, founded in 1950), TV Excelsior (2nd place, founded in 1960) and RecordTV (1st place). , founded in 1953), however the station gradually rose in positions and, since 1969, it became the leader in the country's television audience.