EPTV Sul de Minas

EPTV Sul de Minas (ZYA 732)

Varginha, Minas Gerais Brazil
Channels	Analog: 5 (VHF) Digital: 42 (UHF) Virtual: 5
Programming
Affiliations	TV Globo
Ownership
Owner	Grupo EP (Televisão Sul de Minas Ltda.)
History
Founded	August 8, 1988
Former names	TV Sul de Minas (1988-1989)
Technical information
Licensing authority	ANATEL
Transmitter coordinates	21°33′37.4″S 45°26′24.3″W
Links
Public license information	Profile
Website	redeglobo.globo.com/sp/eptv

EPTV Sul de Minas (channel 5) is a television station in Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo, member of EPTV and owned by Grupo EP. EPTV Sul de Minas' studios and transmitter are located on Professora Helena Reis Street, in the downtown of the city.

Digital television

Channel	Video	Aspect	Programming
5.1	42 UHF	1080i	Main EPTV Sul de Minas programming / TV Globo

On February 25, 2010, the minister of the communications Hélio Costa was to Varginha to sign the permission to implantation of the digital signal in the city. EPTV Sul de Minas was the last of the four stations of EPTV to start its digital transmissions, initially over UHF channel 31. Just before ending the test phase, the station migrated to UHF channel 42.

The official launching occurred in June 8, at 12:15 pm, during Jornal da EPTV, in a ceremony that had the presence of the directors of the station, of the mayor of Varginha, Eduardo Corujinha, and of a representant of the city hall of Poços de Caldas. The station passed to produce its programs in high-definition on April 2, 2012. Among the stations of EPTV, it also was the last to receive this change.

Transition to digital signal

The station planned to shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on December 31, 2023, following ANATEL's official schedule, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. However, the transition was later delayed indefinitely.