TV Cultura

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TV Cultura

Country	Brazil
Broadcast area	São Paulo as TV Cultura, and Brazil, through its affiliate stations and broadcast relay stations and Worldwide
Headquarters	Sao Paulo, (SP)
Programming
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Diários Associados (1960–1969) Fundação Padre Anchieta (1969–present)
History
Launched	20 September 1960; 61 years ago (1960-09-20) (original) 15 June 1969; 52 years ago (1969-06-15) (relaunch)
Former names	C2 Cultura (1960-1969) TV2 Cultura (1969-1979) Rádio e Televisão Cultura (RTC) (1979-1987) Rede Cultura (1993-2002)
Links
Website	www.tvcultura.com.br
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital	List Channel 14 (Maceió) Channel 16 (Salvador) Channel 17 (subchannels 17.1 and 17.2) (Belo Horizonte) Channel 18 (Campina Grande and Cuiabá) Channel 19 (Boa Vista) Channel 21 (Recife) Channel 24 (São Paulo) Channel 31 (Aracaju and Goiânia) Channel 36 (Curitiba) Channel 41 (Belém) Channel 50 (Porto Alegre) Channel 54 (São Luís)
Cable
NET	Channel 1 (SD)/Channel 501 (HD) (Santos) Channel 2 (SD)/Channel 502 (HD) (São Paulo) Channel 22 (SD)/Channel 522 (HD) (Campinas)
Vivo TV	Channel 2
TV Nordeste	Channel 29 (Canoas) Channel 32 (São Luís)
Satellite
SKY Brasil	Channel 160
Vivo TV	Channel 251
Claro TV	Channel 26
Oi TV	Channel 2 Channel 134
CTBC TV	Channel 221
Star One C2	4130 MHz (1020 MHz L-Band), Vertical (SD, Analogue)
Star One B4	3710 MHz @ 14580 ksps, Vertical (HD)

TV Cultura or simply Cultura, is a free Brazilian television network headquartered in São Paulo and a part of Father Anchieta Foundation. It focuses on educational and cultural subjects but also has sports as entertainment options.

According to research by the BBC and the British institute Populus, published in 2015, TV Cultura is the second highest quality channel in the world, behind only BBC One.^[1][2]

History[]

TV Cultura logo between 1992 and 2010.

TV Cultura was founded in 1960 by Diários Associados and , who also owned TV Tupi. In 1968, the São Paulo State Government bought TV Cultura from Associadas and subsequently donated the channel to Fundação Padre Anchieta ("Father Anchieta Foundation") in 1969. It is public TV Station with Educational and Cultural agenda and receives public investments by the government of São Paulo's state and it claims to have intellectual, political and administrative independence not only for TV Cultura, but also its two affiliated radio broadcasting channels, and .

Current programming[]

News and current affairs

• Jornal da Cultura
• Jornal da Tarde
• Manhattan Connection

Sports

• Formula E^[3]
• Novo Basquete Brasil^[4]
• IndyCar Series^[5]

Talk

• Roda Viva

Music shows

Children's programming

• PJ Masks
• Peppa Pig
• Turma da Mônica
• Sésamo
• Os Under-Undergrounds
• Thomas and Friends
• Porto Papel
• Tromba Trem
• O Show da Luna
• Kid-E-Cats
• Molang
• Sunny Bunnies
• Shaun the Sheep
• Mia and Me
• Power Rangers Dino Fury
• The Next Step

Former programming[]

Children's programming

• Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum^[6]
• Rá-Tim-Bum^[6]
• Vila Sésamo^[6]
• Mundo da Lua^[6]
• Um Menino Muito Maluquinho
• A Turma do Pererê
• ^[6]
• Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane
• Pinky Dinky Doo^[6]
• Cyberchase^[6]
• Arthur^[6]
• Seven Little Monsters^[6]
• The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures^[6]
• Mona the Vampire
• Charlie and Lola^[6]
• Little Bear^[6]
• Rupert^[6]
• Caillou^[6]
• Lunar Jim
• The Adventures of Tintim^[6]
• Doug^[6]
• Babar
• Zoboomafoo
• Teletubbies
• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
• Timothy Goes to School^[6]
• Viva Pitágoras
• Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
• Wonder Pets!
• Dora the Explorer

TV Series

• I Dream of Jeannie
• Bewitched
• Father Knows Best
• Mortified
• Beakman's World
• Flight 29 Down

Broadcasters[]

Between 1980 and 2007, TV Cultura became a strong educational television network, and several educational broadcasters across the country joined the network. In 1998, TVE Brasil, the station owned by the federal government of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro joined TV Cultura and together they formed the Public Television Network, today ABEPEC (translated from Portuguese, the Brazilian Association of Public and Educational Broadcasters). In 2007, with the creation of a public corporation, Brazil Communication Company and the creation of TV Brasil, the partnership with TV Cultura was dissolved, but the partnership was resumed two years later. From 2008 to 2012, more than half of TV Cultura's affiliates left it for TV Brasil, generating a rapid shrinkage of the network. However, the situation was reversed between 2016 and 2019. In 2013, the IBOPE index showcased that TV Cultura's had an audience growth in the daily average audience of Greater São Paulo, allowing it for its re-expansion. Currently, the station is present in 2,000 municipalities and 27 states, either through partner stations or network relays.

See also[]

• TVE Brasil
• TV Brasil

References[]

External links[]

• Official site (in Portuguese)