RBS TV Porto Alegre (channel 12) is a television station in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo, flagship station of RBS TV and owned by Grupo RBS. RBS TV Porto Alegre's studios and transmitter are located on Rádio e TV Gaúcha Street, in Santa Tereza district.
History
TV Gaúcha (1962-1983)
With the use of the Porto Alegre channel 12 VHF concession by the Grupo RBS authorized by the then president of the republic, Juscelino Kubitschek, the station was inaugurated on December 29, 1962, by the communicator Maurício Sirotsky Sobrinho. Initially, under the name TV Gaúcha, it was affiliated with Rede de Emissoras Unidas, led by TV Record and TV Rio. In the following year, it became affiliated with TV Excelsior.
In 1967, with the Excelsior crisis, TV Gaúcha joined Rede Globo, founded in 1965 by journalist Roberto Marinho in Rio de Janeiro. From then on, most of its programming began to be produced by Rede Globo.
Jornal do Almoço, the station's main program, went on the air in 1972, when there was still no space in Rede Globo's national programming for local news at noon.