TV Integração Juiz de Fora (channel 8) is a Brazilian television station based in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais serving as an affiliate of the TV Globo network. The channel serves as the flagship broadcasting property of the Rede Integração network, which has three other stations covering western Minas Gerais.
History
The station signed on as TV Industrial. Owned by Sérgio Mendes and his sons Gudesteu Mendes and Geraldo Mendes, it was opened on July 29, 1964 and closed in April 1980, when it was sold to Roberto Marinho and renamed TV Globo Juiz de Fora.[1]
The station transmitted its programming through VHF channel 10 and was the first station in South America to transmit its programming through a helical antenna and the first broadcaster in the interior of Minas Gerais to produce and broadcast programming in color.[2] TV Industrial's claim to have been "the first television station in the interior of Brazil" was questioned years later by the population of Juiz de Fora and other cities, such as Bauru, where TV Bauru (currently TV TEM Bauru) was opened in 1959.[3]