Rede Tupi (
Network Tupi, known as Tupi TV Channel 3 and Tupi TV Channel 6 during its early years, later Tupi TV 3, Tupi TV 6 in the 1960s, Network Tupi
Channel 4 in
Sao Paulo, Network Tupi
Channel 6 Rio De Janeiro in the 1970s) or
TV Tupi was the first
television network in
South America. The network was owned by
Diários Associados or
Diários e Emissoras Associadas, who formed the
Rede de Emissoras Associadas. Rede Tupi was founded and launched on September 18, 1950 by
Assis Chateaubriand in
São Paulo, initially broadcasting on TV Tupi Canal 3 (Tupi Television Channel 3), whose first broadcast was on September 20 that year. Rede Tupi was later broadcast on Channel 4 (in 1960, as Tupi Television 4) after the inauguration of
TV Cultura (Culture TV), Channel 2, Rede Associada (Associated Network), also a TV Station from Associadas. Their competitors were
Rede Record, Channel 7, since 1953, and
Rede Exclesior (Network Exclesior), which had Sao Paulo as its headquarters, and was broadcast then in the city on Channel 9 and in Rio on Channel 2, even through it was nine years younger than Tupi.
In
Rio de Janeiro, TV Tupi was broadcast on Tupi
Channel 6, and had its own station and studios there. In
Brasília, TV Tupi was retransmitted by
TV Brasília on Channel 6. In
Salvador, TV Tupi was retransmitted by
TV Itapoan, on Channel 5. Other TV Stations were formed by the
Rede de Emissoras Associadas (Associated Broadcasters Networks), all Tupi affiliates and directly operated...
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