Rede Amazônica Macapá is a Brazilian television station based in Macapá, capital of the state of Amapá. It operates on channel 6 (28 UHF digital) and is an affiliate of TV Globo. The station is part of Grupo Rede Amazônica, a complex of radio and television stations spread across northern Brazil (except in the states of Pará and Tocantins), founded by businessman Phelippe Daou.
History
In 1974, TV Amapá was created and went on air on channel 6 by the Government of the Federal Territory of Amapá with the aim of showing all the games of the 1974 FIFA World Cup, scheduled for June of the same year, driven by the historic achievement and the height of the Brazilian team that won the previous cup. The station operated in one of the rooms of Rádio Difusora de Macapá.
With the impossibility of showing live games via EMBRATEL satellite at the time (the reason was a "hole" in satellite coverage, because the system in use at Embratel-Macapá was not suitable for this type of operation), the only broadcast option of games recorded on VT (video tape). To achieve this, Channel 6 partnered with TV Guajará in Belém.
Guajará showed the cup matches and when they finished, planes from the Government of Amapá immediately landed in Belém to receive the local VT, to be sent to Macapá to be shown on TV Amapá a few hours later. On the days when the Brazilian team played, the government plane traveled to Belém and waited there for the end of the games to bring the VT tape which, immediately upon arrival, was aired by TV Amapá. Channel 6's images alternated between color and black-and-white, which left viewers confused.
After the end of the 1974 World Cup, the broadcaster entered into an agreement with the Rede de Emissoras Independentes (led by TV Record) in São Paulo and shows the new network's programming until it goes off the air in October.