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TV Globo is the main television network in Brazil. It is present in all states of the country and is the market leader, with a share of 40-60% of the audience.
It is famous for the telenovelas (soap operas) which, together with the news and football, dominate primetime viewing in Brazil. These are exported all over the world, especially to Portugal where they have a cult following, and are also shown dubbed into different languages.
TV Globo Internacional offers similar programming via satellite around the world, including the United States, Europe, Africa and Japan.
TV Globo has a production center in Rio de Janeiro called Projac, where most of their shows are produced, and a new other in São Paulo.
TV Globo had for many years a near-monopoly on viewers, and with it, the power to influence presidential election results, with the use of news favorable to its proprietors' preferred candidates. In 1989, it broadcast an edited debate between Fernando Collor de Mello, who it favoured, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (current President), destroying the latter's chances of winning. In 1992, it was the same TV Globo help to create a movement to impeach President Collor.
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