70 years ago
 

On this date, the second TV station in Brazil went on the air:

Very nice - thanks

You are welcome. Have a nice Thursday.

I wonder how many translators were used to cover such a large country.

Maybe PRG 3 was blasting out 1 MW of ERP?

Actually, on the first years, not many people in Brazil watched television, precisely because of the huge size of the country and the lack of financial means to set up a network of translators.

Both this station, and the first station, which went on the air in São Paulo four months earlier, belonged to the same group - and until 1956, they didn't have the same programming. First Rio - São Paulo transmission only happened in 56, and the distance between these two cities is only 400 kilometers.

After 56, much of the programming remained local.

Other stations went on the air in other states, and two curious things began to happen: first, in small towns people raised money to build repeating stations to bring in the television signals from the main cities. Second, when the technology of video-tape appeared, we began to have a more "national" programming, because the stations outside Rio and São Paulo started to buy the tapes of programs aired by stations of those two cities.

Only by 1969 we started to really have national coverage of live TV. Which was just in time, because we were able to watch the Moon landings together with the rest of the world.

Very nice :)

Early radio / TV is great stuff. To relate it to Brazil lets look at FM.
There used to be an argument what FM had the greatest coverage
in the world. WMTW & a station in Rio de Janeiro both claimed the honors.
In any case WMTW easily could be listened to 150 mi away in stereo riding
around in your car. WMTW TV 8 was a rabbit ear watcher on a good set
well over 130 miles More on WMTW here.

https://www.fybush.com/site-030220.html

Its kinda sad the FCC killed TV8 & WMTW FM 94.9
Loss of NTSC drove up costs so they had to leave the mountain.
WMTW FM now WHOM is plagued out at 150 miles due to the FCC
issuing licenses being issued on the same & adjacent channels.
So Captain, Rio or Mt Washington ??

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

I never heard about a station in Rio claiming that it had the greatest coverage in the world. This is news to me, I must confess that I am somewhat surprised. When did this story circulated?

Story was floating around many years ago. IIRC they even used it
in there promos. Rio would probably win population wise.There are not that many
people in the coverage area except Montreal. Mostly trees ! I will have to do some research.
We already lost our highest wind 20 yrs ago.
https://www.mountwashington.org/abou...cord-wind.aspx
Oh well.
73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !