InterTV Cabugi (channel 11) is a Brazilian television station based in Natal, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte that is affiliated with TV Globo. The station is owned by Sistema Tribuna de Comunicação, owned by businessman and politician Henrique Eduardo Alves, who controls half of the shares with Rede InterTV, a company of the Grupo Incospal, owned by businessman Fernando Aboudib Camargo, as well as InterTV Costa Branca de Mossoró. Its studios are located in the Lagoa Nova neighborhood, and its transmission antenna is in Parque das Dunas, in Tirol.
History
The concession for VHF channel 11 in Natal was granted on December 17, 1986, to politician Aluízio Alves, then minister of federal administration in the government of President José Sarney.[1] After almost a year of preparations, TV Cabugi was opened on September 1, 1987, being the second of three stations to go on air that year in the municipality (along with TV Ponta Negra, opened on March 15, and TV Tropical, on October 31), and the third television station in the state, in addition to being the last state in Brazil to receive a Rede Globo affiliate.[2]
The station's first headquarters was a small building located in the Lagoa Nova neighborhood, where fifteen years later, its current headquarters would be built next door, with extensive facilities, fully adapted to a TV station.