Popular (and sometimes controversial) Brazilian businessman and TV personality Silvio Santos passed away today at the age of 93. He created and owned the SBT network and hosted a long-running program that carried his name.
In this video from 14 May 1976 (opening night of his owned-station TVS (ch. 11 in Rio de Janeiro), the cornerstone of what became a nationwide network in the 1980s based at São Paulo), he explains viewers how he set it up and how the colour transmitter of the defunct station TV Continental (Rio’s ch. 9, shut down in 1971) was repurposed for his new channel.