EPTV Sul de Minas (channel 5) is a television station in Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo, member of EPTV and owned by Grupo EP. EPTV Sul de Minas' studios and transmitter are located on Professora Helena Reis Street, in the downtown of the city.
History
The station started broadcasting on August 8, 1988. The first local program seen was the local edition of MGTV (which in 1999 was replaced by Jornal Regional, aligning itself with the EPTV stations in São Paulo) presented by Ronaldo Trombini. In an initial phase, the station covered about 100 cities, with an estimated reach of two million people.[1] When São Carlos joined the stations, the group was renamed EPTV.[2]
Digital television
On February 25, 2010, the minister of the communications Hélio Costa was to Varginha to sign the permission to implantation of the digital signal in the city.