Multishow

Multishow

Country	Brazil
Headquarters	Rio de Janeiro
Programming
Language(s)	Portuguese
Picture format	1080i (16:9 HDTV) (HD feed downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTV sets)
Ownership
Owner	Canais Globo (Grupo Globo)
Sister channels	SporTV, GNT, Globo News, , Bis, Viva, Rede Globo
History
Launched	1991
Links
Website	multishow.globo.com
Availability
Cable
Claro TV	Channel 42 Channel 542 (HD)
Vivo TV	Channel 542 (HD)
Satellite
SKY Brasil	Channel 42 Channel 442 (HD)
Vivo TV	Channel 42 (HD)
Claro TV	Channel 42 Channel 542 (HD)
Oi TV	Channel 42 (HD)

Multishow is an entertainment channel owned by Canais Globo, Grupo Globo's cable and satellite television channel operator. It was launched in 1991, as one of the company's first four channels (with Telecine, Top Sport – now SporTV – and GNT). A high-definition simulcast was launched on December 15, 2012, at 11:59 pm Brazilian Summer Time (UTC-02), with a live telecast of a Rolling Stones concert at the Prudential Center.^[1]

Programming[]

Original programming[]

• BBB: A Eliminação
• (on hiatus)
• Outros Lugares
• TVZ
  • Top TVZ
  • TVZ Experimente
  • TVneja
  • Clássicos Multishow

Non-original programming[]

• Altas Horas (repeat of the previous night's episode on Globo)
• Big Brother Brasil (extended coverage)
• El Chapulín Colorado
• El Chavo del Ocho
• Fight Girls
• Dead Set
• Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Misfits
• My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé
• Sexytime
• Sexcetera
• Co-Ed Confidential
• The Best Sex Ever
• Sex and the City
• Cybernet
• Beauty and the Geek
• The Bad Girls Club
• Being Human

Specials[]

• Multishow Brazilian Music Award

Bis[]

On October 1, 2009, Multishow launched its HDTV channel, Multishow HD. Like other HD channels owned by Globosat at the time (such as , Telecine HD and Premiere FC/Combate HD), instead of being a simulcast of the main channel, it featured a separate, mostly music-oriented lineup, with concerts, documentaries and other music-related programming, but most concerts also air in SD on the main channel. Until the launch of Multishow HD, all of Multishow's HD content aired on Globosat HD, which still broadcasts Multishow's non-music high-definition programming, and some music programs. On August 27, 2012, in anticipation to the launch of a high-definition simulcast of Multishow, Multishow HD was renamed provisionally Bis Multishow HD ("bis" is the Brazilian term for "encore") and later, on November 2012, renamed as simply Bis. The music-oriented programming of the channel remained mostly unchanged.

Trivia[]

• All foreign-language songs featured on foreign programming and on music videos are subtitled in Portuguese.

References[]

External links[]

• Multishow website (in Portuguese)