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Brazil is Latin America's largest media market and a country where television carries social weight with few equals anywhere. Television remained the leading source of news consumption for a long time; radio is still the primary source of information across the interior and rural areas. That explains why Brazilian journalism developed a mass-audience idiom that is visually strong and direct.
The second defining feature of broadcasting is concentrated ownership. A significant share of the country's large broadcast groups were founded as family firms and have remained in the same families across generations, and that structure sits at the centre of Brazil's debate about media pluralism.
The third, and particular to Brazil, is the scale of religious broadcasting. The social weight of evangelical churches in the country is reflected directly on television; some large broadcast groups were founded in connection with church structures or grew with those resources. Knowing who stands behind a Brazilian broadcast group is necessary to understand the frame of its reporting.
The country broadcasts in Portuguese, which separates Brazilian journalism linguistically from the rest of Latin America and makes the country a distinct media space within the continent.
Brazil · Portuguese
Band Jornalismo is the news service of Grupo Bandeirantes, one of Brazil's long-established broadcast groups. The group is a family company with a long history in television and radio and runs a wide network across the country.
Its journalism is built around the national agenda, sport and the economy. The group's weight in sports broadcasting feeds the news service's capacity in that area.
Brazil · Portuguese · ● live
CNN Brasil launched in 2020 under a brand partnership with CNN, with content and editorial management belonging to its Brazilian owner. It entered the country's rolling news market late but with substantial investment, establishing production centres in São Paulo and Brasília.
Its agenda covers domestic politics, the economy and international news, with particular weight on political reporting from Brasília. The international brand partnership widens its access to foreign news flow.
Brazil · Portuguese · ● live
Jovem Pan is a radio organisation with roots reaching back to the 1940s and is one of the long-established brands of Brazilian radio. Jovem Pan News is the group's news and commentary service, carrying the talk-led format of its radio tradition onto television and digital.
The channel's identity is explicitly opinion-led and positioned on the political right; that is its known position in Brazil's polarised media environment and information readers should hold.
Its programming is built around panel discussion and commentator-led shows.
Brazil · Portuguese · ● live
Record News is the rolling news channel of Record, one of Brazil's large broadcast groups. The group runs one of the country's widest television networks and holds a strong position in news, entertainment and drama production.
The group's corporate history is among the best-known instances of the weight of religious structures in Brazilian media, and readers are best placed judging the channel in that context.
Its journalism is built around the national agenda, public order and the economy.
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