Globosat

Globosat

Type	Subsidiary of Organizações Globo
Industry	Entertainment Cable Television Interactive Media
Founded	19 October of 1991
Headquarters	Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Employees	1.480
Parent	Organizações Globo
Divisions	Globo News Telecine GNT Multishow Canal Viva SporTV Megapix Globosat HD
Website	globosat.com.br

Globosat is a multichannel cable and satellite TV service in Brazil, created in 1991, after the creation of cable and satellite TV services. It has also operated a channel in Portugal, TV Globo Portugal, having earlier operated a similar channel, GNT Portugal, until 2006. Globosat belongs to Organizações Globo.

In 1993, Globosat split its content generation and distribution businesses. Cable TV sales and distribution were assigned to Net Brasil, which was also responsible for installing cable networks in selected cities. Nowadays Net Brasil is responsible for the cable network in those cities. Content production and programming remained with Globosat, renamed to Globosat Canais.

Today, with 29 channels and over 1,000 employees, Globosat leads the Brazilian Pay-TV market. Its audience comprises 16.5 million viewers distributed among more than 4.8 million households in the country. Globosat programmer is the largest pay TV in Latin America and market leader in Brazil.

Globosat networks

Current networks

The 30 channels:

• Canal OFF
• Canal Futura
• Canal Viva
• Globosat HD
• Globo News
• SporTV
• SporTV2
• SporTV3
• SporTV HD

• Telecine Networks
  • Telecine Premium HD ¹
  • Telecine Pipoca HD ¹
  • Telecine Action HD ¹
  • Telecine Touch HD ¹
  • Telecine Fun HD ¹
  • Telecine Premium ¹
  • Telecine Action ¹
  • Telecine Touch ¹
  • Telecine Fun ¹
  • Telecine Pipoca ¹
  • Telecine Cult ¹
• Megapix
  • Megapix HD
• GNT

• Multishow
  • Multishow HD
• Universal Channel²
• Canal Brasil
• PFC
• PFC Internacional
• Combate
• Sexy Hot ³
• For Man ³
• Playboy do Brasil ³
  • Playboy TV ³
  • Venus ³
  • Private ³
  • Playboy TV Movies ³

¹ - It is a joint-venture with 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures.

² - It is a joint-venture with NBCUniversal-owned Universal Networks International. Half of the shares belongs to Organizações Globo.

³ - Playboy do Brasil is a joint-venture created from the association between Globosat and Playboy TV Latin America.

Upcoming networks

• Gloob - Children channel

Former networks

• Shoptime (currently owned by Americanas.com) : home shopping
• Premiere Filmes (pay-per-view) : new film releases
• Canal Rural (formely a joint-venture with Grupo RBS, currently owned only by RBS) : agrochannel
• Premiere Rural (pay-per-view) : rodeos and agrochannel

External links

• Globosat (Portuguese)