CNT or Central Nacional de Televisão (English: Central National Television) is a Brazilian television network based in Curitiba/Paraná. Part of the Grupo Empresarial Organizações Martinez, it aired for the first time in 1979 initially with Tropical TV.

History

The Central Nacional de Television was founded on March 15, 1979, by entrepreneur and political José Carlos Martinez until his death in 2003; is chaired by entrepreneur and political (and brother) Flávio de Castro Martinez. The channel is called Rede OM, (OM Network).

Partnership with Televisa

The television network CNT closed contract with the Mexican television network Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

, going to show the soap Manancial in August 2008. Televisa's other productions came as Sueños y caramels, SOS: Sexo y otros Secretos and Y ahora qué hago?.

Coverage of the CNT

With broadcasters themselves, affiliates and repeaters, CNT based network to a program of national scope in recent years working from five strategic poles: São Paulo

São Paulo

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, Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, Salvador

Salvador, Bahia

Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...

, Brasilia

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

 and Curitiba

Curitiba

Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...

. Reaches more than 15 million households, equivalent to 50 million viewers, a large part of the country (5 stations and 43 repeaters). And during the coming years to improve its fleet and expand its technical signal to all of Brazil.

Digital CNT

The CNT Network was the first to use this technology for its stations and affiliates starting in 1999. The stations comprising the network receive programming in digital quality using Embratel satellite channeling. Through this system, CNT operates with the latest technology in signal transmission. It is the first step in the advancement and use of all-digital technology, bringing its structure to the newly defined Sistema Brasileiro de TV Digital (SBTVD-T).

Thus the network is already prepared for the Brazilian digital system (SBTVD-T), where it will allow its viewers in all of Brazil to enjoy better video and audio quality in a better transmission system than the current one (analog). The system employs digital modulation formats, transmission of information and signal compression, Making it possible to place in the frequency range of a single analog channel, several digital channels with much higher quality.

News

• CNT Jornal. Monday to Friday, 21:30 h, with Salette Lemos.
• 190 Urgente. Monday to Friday, 12:00 h, with Roberto Aciolli (except for RJ and Londrina).

Variety

• Notícias & Mais. Monday to Friday, 12:00 to 14:00 h, with Adriana de Castro, Rony Curvelo, Leão Lobo, and Celso Russomano.
• Goleada do Mallandro Currently off the air.
• Momento Moto. Sunday at 13:30.
• Programa de Brasilia. Sundays till 14:30.
• Show de Pesca. Sundays at 8:30.

Religious

• O Caminho Antigo. Monday to Friday, 10:30 h/12:30 h, with Irmao Eli Soriano

Interviews

• Jogo do Poder. Wednesday, 23h, with Alon Feuerwerker.
• Magnavita. Saturday, 23h, with Claudio Magnavita.
• Fala Sério. Monday, 23h, with Salette Lemos.
• Radar Television. Wednesday, 23:30, with Octavio Neto.
• Marcia Peltier Interview. Tuesday, 23h, with Marcia Peltier.
• Sala Vip '. Sunday, 18:30, with Faveco

International Shows

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
  
   Monday, 22:30h
• Alma Indomable
  Alma Indomable
  Alma Indomable is a telenovela produced by Venevisión International and shot in Miami, Florida. It premiered on Univision on October 19, 2009 in the 1/12c timeslot...
  
   Monday to Friday, 22:00h
• Doña Barbara
  Doña Bárbara (Telemundo series)
  Doña Bárbara is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo, Sony Pictures Television International and RTI Colombia. Edith González and Christian Meier star in this adaptation of the 1929 novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos...
  
  Monday to Friday, 21:00h

External links

• Official site