InterTV Grande Minas (channel 4) is a Brazilian television station based in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais serving as an affiliate of the TV Globo network for northern Minas Gerais, covering 134 cities in the state.
History
Montes Claros received its first television signals in 1970, when citizens got to see the 1970 FIFA World Cup through microwave relay stations coming from television stations in Belo Horizonte. Since then, the city's mayor Toninho Rebello, fed the dream of setting up a local television station, and for that, formed a company with Elias Siufi, at the time director of Rádio Sociedade (now Super RBV Montes Claros), as well as businessmen Raimundo Tourinho, Geraldo Borges, José Corrêa Machado and João Bosco Martins de Abreu, for a public contest.[1]
On July 20, 1976, president Ernesto Geisel signed the decree granting VHF channel 4 to the company formed by the businessmen,[2] and after four years of preparation, it started on September 14, 1980, as TV Montes Claros, as a Rede Bandeirantes affiliate. The station had state-of-the-art equipment for its time, such as a U-matic editing line, unlike other stations, which were still using film.