RPC Ponta Grossa (channel 12) is a Brazilian television station licensed to Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo. The station is part of RPC and its signal covers the regions of Campos Gerais southern Paraná. Its studios are located at the Boa Vista neighborhood, and its transmitters are in the city center.
History
The initial steps for the implementation of the first television station in Ponta Grossa were made in October 1966, when businessmen Constâncio Mendes, main controller of Jornal da Manhã and Wallace Pina, owner and founder of Rádio Difusora, received a license to operate on VHF channel 7.[1]
Initially, it was supposed to begin operations on October 15 that year,[2] however, due to financial problems, the station started to materialize on December 24, 1971, when its first experimental broadcast was made, being, for this reason, the longest time to install a television channel in Paraná, over a lapse of five years.[1]