Record TV (C1000x)

Record TV is a Brazilian open commercial television network. His generating station was inaugurated in the city of São Paulo on September 27, 1953 by the businessman and communicator Paulo Machado de Carvalho, and its creation dates back to the arrival of television in Brazil, when he became interested in the new means of communication and wanted to expand his conglomerate. media (which consisted of several radio stations). Paulo then applied to operate a television station in the city of São Paulo, being granted in November 1950. The works to put it on the air lasted 3 years. It was the 4th broadcaster inaugurated in Brazil after TV Tupi São Paulo (1950), TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro (1951) and TV Paulista (1952).

Record quickly became popular, specializing in the production of musical programs, becoming an audience leader in the 1960s with the historic festivals of popular music and Jovem Guarda. In the mid-1970s, half of the channel's shares were sold to entrepreneur and presenter Silvio Santos. Subsequently, the broadcaster went through a financial crisis that culminated in a state of pre-bankruptcy in the late 1980s.

The formation of the national network began in the early 1990s after the station was acquired by Edir Macedo, founder and leader of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since then, the channel started to rely on major investments in a reconstruction phase that consolidated it, in 2007, as the second largest television network in Brazil in audience and revenue, a position it occupied until 2015, when it was overtaken by SBT. As of 2012, both broadcasters started competing more intensely for tenth points and taking turns in the IBOPE ranking.

Record TV is the 2nd largest commercial television broadcaster in Brazil and the 12th largest in the world ranking of 2022, and it's São Paulo matrix is ​​the oldest television broadcaster in operation in Brazil. It belongs to Grupo Record, a media conglomerate that also includes the news channel Record News, the R7 portal, radio stations, among other communication vehicles. Its studios and headquarters are at the Teatro Dermeval Gonçalves, located in the Barra Funda neighborhood, in São Paulo. The station also has the Casablanca Estúdios complex, located in the Vargem Grande neighborhood, in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Record TV was described as practicing of biased reporting in favor of Patriota, right-wing politicians and conservative causes, while portraying left and center parties and politicians in a negative light. Critics cited the channel as damaging to the integrity of the news in general and called it "Brazilian Fox News". Record TV' official position is that its reports operate independently of its opinion and comment schedule, and has denied bias in its reports, although former employees have said that Record has ordered them to "slant the news in favor of conservatives." During Jair Bolsonaro's presidency, observers said there was a pronounced tendency for Record TV to serve as a "mouthpiece" for the administration, providing "propaganda" and a "feedback loop" for Bolsonaro, with scholars suggesting that the channel came to resemble a form of state TV.