NDTV is a Brazilian television network affiliated with Record, headquartered in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. It has six television stations covering all around the state. The network emerged starting from a division of RIC TV, based in Curitiba, Paraná, from which they did part since 2008, when occurred the fusion of this with the defunct Rede SC. The division culminated also in the creation of Grupo ND, responsible by the actives belonging to the Petrelli family in the state of Santa Catarina.
History
Antecedents
In 1987, the businessman Mário Gonzaga Petrelli opened TV O Estado, from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, affiliated with SBT. The station maintained association with TV Planalto, from Lages, that possibilited the use of its relayers and the relaying of its programs in the greatest part of the state, forming the Sistema Catarinense de Comunicações. In 1989, was created TV O Estado, in Chapecó, until then belonging at the television stations from Paraná, that passed to cover the east region of Santa Catarina.[1]