TV Tibagi

TV Tibagi (ZYQ 206)
Maringá/Apucarna, Paraná, Brazil;
Channels	Digital: 39 (UHF); Virtual: 11;
Branding	Rede Massa
Programming
Affiliations	SBT
Ownership
Owner	Rede Massa (Carlos Roberto Massa); (Rádio e Televisão Iguaçu S/A.);
History
First air date	July 26, 1969 (55 years ago)
Former call signs	ZYB 395 (1969-2018)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:; 11 (VHF, 1969–2018);
Former affiliations	REI (1969-1972) ; Rede Globo (1972-1976) ; Rede Tupi (1978-1980) ; TVS-Record (1980-1981)
Technical information
Licensing authority	ANATEL
ERP	10 kW
Transmitter coordinates	25°27′44.4″S 49°15′29.9″W / 25.462333°S 49.258306°W
Links
Public license information	Profile
Website	redemassa.com.br

TV Tibagi is a Brazilian television station licensed and headquartered in Apucarana, with a branch in Maringá, both cities in the state of Paraná. It operates on channel 11 (39 UHF digital) and is affiliated with SBT. It is part of Rede Massa, a television network in Paraná belonging to Grupo Massa. In Apucarana, the broadcaster maintains its facilities in the Vila Shangri-la neighborhood, and in Maringá, its studios and transmitters are in the Praça Pio XII region, in Zone 05.

History

TV Tibagi went on air in 1969, based in Apucarana, through VHF channel 11. The new station belonged to the then governor of Paraná, Paulo Pimentel, who had TV Iguaçu in Curitiba.^[2] The station became affiliated with Rede Tupi, bringing programming directly from Curitiba.

Starting in the 1970s, TV Tibagi, until then restricted to Apucarana and the region, became the main competitor of TV Coroados de Londrina, affiliated with Rede Globo: the broadcaster expanded repeaters in the cities of Londrina, Maringá and other cities in the north of Paraná. The expansion of repeaters was due to more investment, programming, and a signal with better distribution from Apucarana (known as the "upper city") than TV Coroados.^[2]

Retransmitters in cities further away from Apucarana began to retransmit TV Tibagi, reducing the coverage area of TV Coroados. There was generally equipment to retransmit only one channel on each repeater.^[2]

As a result, TV Tibagi was better than TV Coroados, taking it away from the audience, using the same repeater system carried out by TVs Coroados and Excelsior. Retransmitters in more distant cities began to retransmit TV Tibagi, reducing the coverage area of TV Coroados.^[2]

With the revocation and extinction of Tupi in 1980, the station joined the TVS-Record network for a year until the current SBT network was createdd.

In 2008, Paulo Pimentel sold the station to Carlos Massa, aka Ratinho.^[3]

Technical information

Virtual channel	Digital channel	Aspect ratio	Content
11.1	39 UHF	1080i	TV Iguaçu/SBT's main programming
11.2	39 UHF	480i Widescreen	TV Escola Curitiba (no audio and video)

The station closed its analog signal on November 28, 2018, when the Maringá region did so.^[4]

References

^ Tribuna PR. "Rádio E Televisão Iguaçu S/A. Cnpj/Mf 76.600.188/0001-70" (PDF). tribunapr.uol.com.br. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d José Wille (14 July 2011). "Memória: Como a TV chegava ao interior no passado". CBN Curitiba. Archived from the original on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
^ Gazeta do Povo, 14 de setembro de 2007: Ratinho negocia a compra das emissoras de TV do Grupo Paulo Pimentel
^ Sinal analógico vai acabar em 155 cidades paranaenses; saiba se a sua está entre elas

[1] Tribuna PR. "Rádio E Televisão Iguaçu S/A. Cnpj/Mf 76.600.188/0001-70" (PDF). tribunapr.uol.com.br. Retrieved 9 August 2021.

[CBN-2] José Wille (14 July 2011). "Memória: Como a TV chegava ao interior no passado". CBN Curitiba. Archived from the original on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2012.

[3] Gazeta do Povo, 14 de setembro de 2007: Ratinho negocia a compra das emissoras de TV do Grupo Paulo Pimentel

[4] Sinal analógico vai acabar em 155 cidades paranaenses; saiba se a sua está entre elas

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