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2 unusual facts about Globo


Folha da Manhã

Valor Econômico – The leading Brazilian business daily, a 50/50 joint-venture with the Globo group.

Radio Globo

Organizações Globo, South American large mass media group founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and with a big number of radio statons and other investments


2006–07 Brazilian aviation crisis

A camera set up by Globo caught a top presidential adviser, Marco Aurélio Garcia, inside the Palácio do Planalto, apparently celebrating with an aide immediately after watching the newscast, ostensibly due to the blame placed on the federal administration's policies for the crash.

Brazilian Footballer of the Year

Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão, an award given each year, since 2005, by the Brazilian Football Confederation and Rede Globo

Brazilian presidential election, 1989

This event was explored on Channel 4's documentary Beyond Citizen Kane, where the head of journalism of Globo at the time, Armando Nogueira, explained how his edit of the debate shown at the lunchtime news program was altered to favor Collor on the evening news.

In the broadcast of Jornal Nacional on the following day, Globo aired an edited version of the debate highlighting Collor's best moments and Lula's worst ones.

Charles Gidley Wheeler

Armada (First published 1987) Publishing history: UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Fontana; US: Viking Press; Brazil (Brazilian): Globo

Emilio Romano

Romano was a member of the Board of Directors for Univision Communications between 1995 and 1998, where he was responsible for leading numerous high profile transactions, including the sale of PanAmSat to Hughes Electronics; the formation of Via Digital DTH venture for the Iberian Peninsula; and the Sky Latin America joint venture with The News Corporation, Organizacoes Globo and TCI.

Favorita

A Favorita, a popular and award-winning telenovela, first broadcast in Brazil at Rede Globo in 2008

Il Globo

Il Globo reports not only issues and news regarding Italy and Australia but reports on issues that relate to the local Italian-Australian community in Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory and Victoria

Jorge Ferreira Chaves

Several of his major works, such as the “Pastelaria Mexicana” (cafe), the “Palissi Galvani” shop and the Hotel Florida in Lisbon, the Hotel Garbe, the Hotel da Baleeira and the Hotel Globo in the Algarve or the Chamber of Commerce of Bissau in Guinea-Bissau include conceptually integrated visual arts interventions, some created by himself.

Jornal Nacional

Jornal Nacional has preferred to broadcast stories produced on the Southeast, in spite of Globo having affiliates in every Brazilian state.

Marcos Hummel

Before joining TV Record, Hummel worked for 21 years in Rede Globo's news report "Jornal Hoje", "Jornal Nacional", "Jornal da Globo", "Fantástico", "Globo Esporte", "Bom Dia Rio" and "Bom Dia São Paulo" and has served also as the publisher and editor.

PAL-M

Walter Bruch, inventor of PAL, explains Brazil's choice of PAL against these odds by an advertising campaign Telefunken and Philips carried out across South America in 1972, which included colour test broadcasts of popular shows (done with TV Globo) and technical demonstrations with executives of television stations.

Colour TV broadcast began on September 1972 when the TV networks Globo, Tupi and Bandeirantes TV transmitted the Caxias do Sul Grape Festival.

Rede Manchete

By 1987, for the first time, Rede Manchete and Rede Globo jointly broadcast the Brazilian Carnival to all over the country.

Tema da Vitória

The Victory Theme was also executed by the Globo Network after the Brazilian national team won the 1994 FIFA World Cup, as a hommage to Ayrton Senna, who died earlier that year.

The Voice Brasil

On June 5, 2012, Rede Globo officially confirmed the four coaches for the first season: Brazilian axé singer Claudia Leitte, pop rock singer-songwriter Lulu Santos, Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter and instrumentist Carlinhos Brown, and sertanejo singer Daniel.


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