TV Tibagi is a Brazilian television station licensed and headquartered in Apucarana, with a branch in Maringá, both cities in the state of Paraná. It operates on channel 11 (39 UHF digital) and is affiliated with SBT. It is part of Rede Massa, a television network in Paraná belonging to Grupo Massa. In Apucarana, the broadcaster maintains its facilities in the Vila Shangri-la neighborhood, and in Maringá, its studios and transmitters are in the Praça Pio XII region, in Zone 05.
History
TV Tibagi went on air in 1969, based in Apucarana, through VHF channel 11. The new station belonged to the then governor of Paraná, Paulo Pimentel, who had TV Iguaçu in Curitiba.[2] The station became affiliated with Rede Tupi, bringing programming directly from Curitiba.
Starting in the 1970s, TV Tibagi, until then restricted to Apucarana and the region, became the main competitor of TV Coroados de Londrina, affiliated with Rede Globo: the broadcaster expanded repeaters in the cities of Londrina, Maringá and other cities in the north of Paraná. The expansion of repeaters was due to more investment, programming, and a signal with better distribution from Apucarana (known as the "upper city") than TV Coroados.[2]