Vanguarda (channel 17) is a Brazilian television station based in São José dos Campos, a city in the state of São Paulo serving as the affiliate of the TV Globo network for said city and its surroundings. Owned-and-operated by locally based Rede Vanguarda, it transmits its programming to part of Paraíba Valley, while the other half and the North Coast are covered by TV Vanguarda Taubaté. Its headquarters are located in an annex to CenterVale Shopping in Jardim Oswaldo Cruz, while its transmission antenna is at the top of Morro do Cruzeiro, in Jardim Guimarães.
History
Organizações Globo received the concession of a television station in Vale do Paraíba on February 12, 1987, when President José Sarney granted channel 17 UHF in São José dos Campos to the group.[1] About a year later, on October 1, 1988, TV Globo Vale do Paraíba was opened, Rede Globo's ninth own broadcaster and the fourth to be opened in the state of São Paulo. Its studios were built in an annex to CenterVale Shopping, which had been opened in 1987 by São Marcos Empreendimentos Imobiliários Ltda., a company controlled by the Marinho family[2] (sold in 2008 to the Ancar Ivanhoe chain[3]