TV Diário (channel 19) is a Brazilian television station based in Mogi das Cruzes, a city in the state of São Paulo, serving as an affiliate of TV Globo for the Alto Tietê Region. It is owned by locally based Grupo Diário de Mogi, also responsible for the newspaper O Diário de Mogi, a company of the San Biagio family as its sole broadcasting property and its coverage covers 10 municipalities in the São Paulo metropolitan region. Its studios are located in the César de Sousa district and its transmission antenna is at the top of the Serra do Itapeti.
History
The owners of the newspaper O Diário de Mogi won the concession granted by the Ministry of Communications. The station's concession followed the new rules of minimum hours for local programming established in the bidding notices, and had a greater number of local/regional programs than the other Rede Globo affiliates in the state of São Paulo, and even the affiliates spread throughout Brazil.[1]
The station went on air on May 1, 2000, through UHF channel 14 (later in the same year moving to channel 38), replacing the Rede Globo São Paulo retransmitters in the Alto Tietê region.[1] At the time, the population was 1.2 million inhabitants, concentrated in cities such as Suzano (where a unit with a studio and a permanent journalism team was set up), Itaquaquecetuba, Ferraz de Vasconcelos and Poá.