RIC TV Curitiba (channel 7) is a Brazilian television station based in Curitiba, Paraná serving as an affiliate of the Record for the metropolitan region. The station is the flagship broadcasting property of the locally-based Grupo RIC, which owns three other stations under the RIC TV name, serving the entirety of the state with its studios being located in the Pilarzinho neighborhood of Curitiba.
History
The concession for VHF channel 7 in Curitiba was granted by President João Figueiredo on January 31, 1985,[1] as part of two public competitions won by the Martinez Organizations (the other was for VHF channel 10 in Cascavel, which gave rise to TV Carimã, today RPC Cascavel). Since the group already owned TV Paraná, the concession was sold to businessman Mário Petrelli in February 1986,[2] being one of the embryos of Sistema Sul de Comunicação, together with Rádio Independência (today Rádio Canção Nova Nossa Senhora da Luz), FM 104 (today Jovem Pan FM Curitiba) and TV Vanguarda by Cornélio Procópio, which had been purchased from Grupo Positivo in the year previous.[3]