RPC is a Brazilian television network headquartered in Curitiba, capital of the state of Paraná. It was created in 2000 by Edmundo Lemanski and Francisco Cunha Pereira Filho, after the junction of the television stations of the old Rede Paranaense (TVs Paranaense, Coroados, Cataratas, Esplanada and Cultura), all affiliated with TV Globo. In 2009, the member stations of RPC stopped using their names which had been used since the junction of their stations in 2000, and made a decision to carry the name of their respective cities. It has eight stations around the state, being RPC Curitiba the flagship network.
History
The history of RPC started in 29 October 1960, with the foundation of the first television station of the state, TV Paranaense, by the businessman Nagib Chede.[1] In 1969, Chede sold the station to the businessmen Francisco Cunha Pereira Filho and Edmundo Lemanski, owners of the newspaper Gazeta do Povo.[2] In 1972, the directors of TV Globo decided to transfer the affiliation contract that it had had with TV Paranaense since 1970 to TV Iguaçu, of the former governor of Paraná, Paulo Pimentel, of the then Aliança Renovadora Nacional (ARENA) in Paraná, and ally of the president of the military dictatorship, Emílio Médici.