What is Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão?
{{primary sources|date=May 2012}} {{Infobox television channel | name = Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT) | logo = SBT-Logotipo-2021.png | type = [[Free-to-air]] [[Television broadcasting|television network]] | country = Brazil | replaced = [[Rede Tupi]] | founded = {{start date and age|1981|8|19|df=y}} | founder = [[Silvio Santos]] | tvstations = {{plainlist| <!-- Sorted alphabetically --> * SBT Brasília * SBT Central * SBT Interior RJ * SBT Pará * SBT Rio * SBT RP * SBT RS * SBT São Paulo }} | headquarters = [[CDT da Anhanguera]], [[Osasco]], Brazil | parent = [[Grupo Silvio Santos]] | terr_serv_1 = [[Digital terrestrial television]] | terr_chan_1 = 24 UHF (Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, Jaú, Ribeirão Preto & Nova Fribugo)<br>26 UHF (Belém)<br>28 UHF (São Paulo and Porto Alegre) | picture_format = [[1080i]] [[High-definition television|HDTV]]<br>(downgraded to [[480i]] for the SD feed) | affiliates = See [[:pt:Lista de emissoras do Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão|List of SBT affiliates]] | website = {{url|http://www.sbt.com.br/home}} | language = Portuguese }} '''Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão''', or simply '''SBT''' is a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] [[television network]] launched by [[Silvio Santos]] on [[1981]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbt.com.br/home/|title=SBT - Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão|website=SBT - Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão|access-date=2019-02-14|archive-date=2015-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151128025833/http://www.sbt.com.br/home/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==History== ===Before the SBT=== [[Rede Tupi]], the [[channel 4]] in São Paulo, began operations in 1950. In 1962 (when he began his first TV program), [[Silvio Santos]] produced his own programs on Tupi, TV Paulista and on [[Rede Globo]] beginning in 1965. Soon enough, he started plans to have his own television channel. His production company, Estudios Silvio Santos Cinema e Televisao, was successful on Tupi, Globo and (since 1972) on [[Record (television network)|Record]] (where he then owned half of the company's sto