InterTV Planície (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil affiliated to TV Globo. The station is owned by Rede InterTV.
History
The license for VHF channel 8 in Campos dos Goytacazes was granted, after public competition, by president José Sarney on September 21, 1988, to a company formed by Carlos Cardoso Tinoco, Domingos de Almeida Frias and Antônio Leonides Salles.[1] On April 4, 1989, TV Planície started broadcasting, as an SBT affiliate, and the second TV station in the municipality, after TV Norte Fluminense.[2]
In 1996, the station had half of its shares acquired by Grupo Folha de Comunicação, owner of the Folha da Manhã newspaper. At the time, the station inauturated its new facilities at Edifício Ninho das Águias, located in Praça São Salvador, in the city center. In August 2004, the Tinoco family sold its shares at TV Planície to businessman Fernando Aboudib Camargo, owner of the recently-created