Record News is the first 24-hour free-to-air terrestrial

Terrestrial television

Terrestrial television is a mode of television broadcasting which does not involve satellite transmission or cables — typically using radio waves through transmitting and receiving antennas or television antenna aerials...

 news channel in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. It is owned by Rede Record

Rede Record

Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...

.

History

In 1953, Rede Record de Televisão started as the second Brazilian TV channel (the first was the extinct Rede Tupi

Rede Tupi

Rede Tupi or TV Tupi was the first television network in South America...

). As the network completes 54 years, a new channel has been started by it. This is the first Brazilian news channel free-to-air. The on air button was pushed at 20:15 (Brasília

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

 time) by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , known popularly as Lula, served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.A founding member of the Workers' Party , he ran for President three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as...

 and Edir Macedo

Edir Macedo

Edir Macedo Bezerra is a Brazilian religious leader. Macedo was raised Catholic, but by 1970 was a Pentecostal. He founded the "Neo-Pentecostal" Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil in 1977....

, the owner of the network.

News broadcasting

• Jornal da Record News (RECORD NEWS NEWSCAST)
• Record News Brasil (RECORD NEWS BRAZIL)
• Hora News (NEWS HOUR)
• Tempo News (WEATHER NEWS)
• Página 1 (FIRST PAGE)
• Mundo Meio-Dia (WORLD AT NOON)
• Direto da Redação (NEWSROOM)

Regional News broadcasting

• Record News Nordeste (RECORD NEWS NORTHEAST)
• Record News Sudeste (RECORD NEWS SOUTHEAST)
• Record News São Paulo
• Record News Sul (RECORD NEWS SOUTH)
• Record News Paulista (RECORD NEWS PAULISTA)

Talk show

• Entrevista Record (RECORD INTERVIEW)
• Economia e Negócios (BUSINESS AND ECONOMY)
• Brasília
  Brasília
  Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
  
   ao Vivo (BRASILIA LIVE)

Variety

• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that initially aired from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009, and resumed production on March 1, 2010. The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise made its debut on May 25, 1992, three days following Johnny...
  
  
• NBlogs
• Coisas de mulher (WOMEN STUFF)
• Estilo e Saúde (HEALTH AND STYLE)
• Zapping
• Aldeia News (VILLAGE NEWS)
• Mulheres em Foco (WOMEN IN FOCUS)
• Receita pra Dois (RECIPE FOR TWO)

Documentary

• BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   Record
• Selvagem ao Extremo (EXTREMELY WILD)
• Mistérios do Corpo (BODY MYSTERIES)
• Arquivo Record (RECORD FILE)
• Câmera Record News

Controversy

Two days before the launch of Record News, the Vice-President of Organizações Globo

Organizações Globo

Organizações Globo is the largest media conglomerate of South America, founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1925 by Irineu Marinho. It also owns companies on the food industry and the real estate and financial markets....

, Evandro Guimarães, went to Brasilia

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

 to meet government officials, including the Communications Minister, Hélio Costa, accusing Rede Record

Rede Record

Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...

 of owning two television networks, Rede Record and Record News, inside the city of São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

. In Brazilian Law, it is illegal to own more than one television station in a city.

When Guimarāes trip to Brasilia

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

 was revealed in a blog owned by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo

Folha de S. Paulo

Folha de S. Paulo, known simply as Folha , is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded and continuously published in São Paulo since 19 February 1921. Owned by the Frias de Oliveira family since 1962, it has Brazil's largest circulation since 1986. Alongside O Globo and O Estado de S...

, Rede Record attacked Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

 in an editorial in its national news broadcast, Jornal da Record, accusing Rede Globo of trying to rescue its monopoly on the media and news, and also claiming that Rede Globo was afraid of Record News because Rede Globo, which owns its own news channel Globo News

Globo News

Globo News is the news television channel of Organizações Globo, which is the first 24-hour news channel on Brazilian television. It belongs to the group of pay-TV channels Globosat....

 only a payable cable channel, would lose advertisement revenue from Globo News to Record News. Rede Record also said that Record News was located outside the city of São Paulo, so Record News was broadcasting legitimately. Rede Record also mentioned Rede Globo's past dealings which could be considered illegal and a crime in Brazilian law, and Rede Globo's relationship with Brazil's Military Dictatorship. Rede Globo also claimed it was representing another television rival, Rede Bandeirantes

Rede Bandeirantes

Rede Bandeirantes , officially nicknamed Band or Band Network, is a television network from Brazil, based in São Paulo. Part of the Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação , it aired for the first time in 1967...

, but Rede Record responded that Rede Bandeirantes owns two channels in Sāo Paulo.

Rede Globo responded to Rede Record's attack by saying it had no merits, it had no proof that Rede Globo had done anything illegal in the past, and Rede Record was just angered of Rede Globo's high ratings.