TV Tupi Broadcasts: Brazil's Television Age Begins
TV Tupi Difusora began broadcasting on Channel 3 in Sao Paulo, making Brazil the fourth country in the world to establish regular television service. The station's launch transformed Brazilian media and culture, creating a national appetite for televised entertainment that would eventually produce the telenovela industry, Latin America's most influential cultural export.
September 18, 1950
76 years ago
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