EPTV Campinas (channel 12) is a television station in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo, flagship network of EPTV and owned by Grupo EP. EPTV Campinas' studios and transmitter are located on Regina Nogueira Street, in the Jardim São Gabriel district.

EPTV Campinas (ZYB 859)
Channels
Programming
AffiliationsTV Globo
Ownership
Owner
  • Grupo EP
  • (Empresa Paulista de Televisão S/A)
History
First air date
October 1, 1979
Former names
TV Campinas (1979-1989)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 12 (VHF, 1979-2018)
  • Digital:
  • 42 (UHF, 2008-2018)
Technical information
Licensing authority
ANATEL
Transmitter coordinates22°56′38.6″S 47°01′51″W / 22.944056°S 47.03083°W / -22.944056; -47.03083
Links
Public license information
Profile
Websiteredeglobo.globo.com/sp/eptv

History

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The parent company Emissoras Paulistas de Televisão set up construction permits for channel 12 in Campinas and channel 7 in Ribeirão Preto in the mid-1970s.[1] The then TV Campinas was founded on October 1, 1979, by the politician José Bonifácio Coutinho Nogueira, being the first station of EPTV, later arriving to the regions of Ribeirão Preto, southern Minas Gerais and São Carlos.[2] In the time, the newscast Jornal Regional was transmitted over the names of Jornal Hoje (the first edition was a regional block of the national edition) and Jornal das Sete (the second edition).

On December 24, 1986, during the coverage of the fire occurred in the supermarket Eldorado in Campinas, the video-tape operator of TV Campinas, Ronaldo Gomes, was dead buried after the collapse of part of a lateral wall of the building, being that his body only was found three days later in the half of the rubbles. The film reporter of the station, Renato Isidoro, also injured himself in the collapse, and he was taken to the hospital, where it was considered head trauma. He stayed in a coma by 15 days, and part of his face had to be rebuilt by a plastic surgeon.[3]

EPTV Campinas has a large history of investments in its signal quality. Since June 2007, it already produced the content of the program Terra da Gente in high-definition.[4] In the introduction of the digital television in Brazil, in December 2007, EPTV marked its place recording the images in high-definition to the first Globo Repórter of the digital television with images recorded in Queensland and in the Great Barrier Reef, in Australia. In the following year, it recorded also in high-definition the series Combate da Venda Grande, an episode occurred in Campinas during the Liberal Rebellions of 1842.[5]

Digital television

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Channel Video Aspect Programming
12.1 25 UHF 1080i Main EPTV Campinas programming / TV Globo

On October 22, 2008, EPTV Campinas started the experimental transmission of the digital signal, over UHF channel 42. The definitive transmission started on December 3.[6] With this, EPTV became the first inlander affiliate with TV Globo to start the digital transmissions outside the capitals.[7] Its coverage area with UHF external antenna was first limited to the cities nearby Campinas, that received the analog signal of the TV station, over VHF channel 12. Starting September 21, 2009, EPTV Campinas passed to present all its programs in high-definition.[8]

Transition to digital signal

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The station turned off its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on January 17, 2018,[9] as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The switch-off occurred at 11:59 pm, during a live bulletin made of the switcher of the station.[10] With this, EPTV Campinas changed its physical channel, from UHF 42 to 25.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Television Factbook" (PDF). 1977. p. 1094-b. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  2. ^ Cardoso do Carmo Roldão, Ivete (August 19–21, 2009). "TVs regionais em Campinas: 30 anos de história" [Regional television stations in Campinas: 30 years of history] (PDF). 7th National Meeting of Media History (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  3. ^ Verzignasse, Rogério (December 25, 2011). "Incêndio do Supermercado Eldorado completa 25 anos" [Fire of the supermarket Eldorado turns 25]. Portal RAC (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  4. ^ "EPTV Digital - Sinal digital EPTV. Você vê a diferença" [EPTV Digital - Digital signal EPTV. You see the diference]. ViaEPTV.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  5. ^ Redation (May 19, 2008). "Venda Grande tem lançamento. Professora do IFCH participa" [Venda Grande has launching. Teacher of the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences participates]. UNICAMP (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on September 4, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  6. ^ "Histórico" [History]. ViaEPTV.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on June 22, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  7. ^ Redation (December 3, 2008). "Cerimônia na EPTV lança sinal digital em Campinas" [Ceremony on EPTV launches digital signal in Campinas]. ViaEPTV.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  8. ^ Redation (October 1, 2009). "EPTV celebra 30 anos hoje" [EPTV celebrates 30 years today]. Lavras 24 Horas. Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  9. ^ Redation (January 18, 2018). "TV Digital: EPTV desliga o sinal analógico em cidades da região de Campinas e São Carlos" [Digital television: EPTV turns off tha analog signal in cities of regions of Campinas and São Carlos]. G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on January 18, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  10. ^ Redation (November 28, 2017). "Desligamento do sinal analógico em três regiões de SP começa amanhã (29/11)" [Switch-off of the analog channel in three regions of the state of São Paulo starts tomorrow (November 29)]. ANATEL (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on July 3, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  11. ^ Redation (January 1, 2018). "Com o fim do sinal analógico, usuários da EPTV Campinas terão de fazer 'busca de canais'" [With the end of the analog signal, users of EPTV Campinas will have to make 'channels search']. G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on January 18, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2024.