Record São Paulo (channel 7) is a Brazilian television station located in São Paulo, Brazil serving as the flagship station of the Record television network for most of the state of São Paulo, including the metropolitan region. Owned-and-operated by locally based Grupo Record, the station's studios are located at Teatro Dermeval Gonçalves with its transmitter located at Edifício Grande Avenida.
History
TV Record was opened at 8:53 pm on September 27, 1953 by lawyer and businessman Paulo Machado de Carvalho, operating on VHF channel 7. Initially, covering only the capital of São Paulo, Record began its first attempt to expand nationally in 1959, when, together with the extinct TV Rio, it led the Rede das Emissoras Unidas and, later, the Rede de Emissoras Independentes. In 1975, it reached an agreement with TV Rio for the formation of the Sistema Brasileiro de Comunicação.[1] Among the programs produced were as Buzina do Chacrinha and Essa Gente Inocente.[2]
In 1972, businessman and presenter Silvio Santos was looking for a television concession. Seeing the opportunity to be a partner at TV Record, he became interested in buying 50% of the broadcaster's shares. However, he was still hired by Globo. Dermerval Gonçalves, businessman and close friend of Silvio, approached fellow businessman Joaquim Cintra Godinho, so that he could lend his name in the purchase of TV Record shares until Silvio ended his relationship with Globo.