Transamérica Pop
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Transamérica Pop is a Brazil
ian radio station property of the Brazilian Network Transamérica. It's a broadcast directed to a young audience and has programming that highlights the musical genres pop
, rock
and hip hop
.
It was created in 1990 at the start of the satellite transmissions of Transamérica. Nowadays, the Transamérica Pop has fourteen stations in Brazil
(cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Recife, Além Paraíba, Balneário Camboriú, Boa Vista, Fernando de Noronha, Montes Claros, Norte do Paraná/Arapongas and Cataguases) and one station in Japan
.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian radio station property of the Brazilian Network Transamérica. It's a broadcast directed to a young audience and has programming that highlights the musical genres pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
and hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
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It was created in 1990 at the start of the satellite transmissions of Transamérica. Nowadays, the Transamérica Pop has fourteen stations in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
(cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Recife, Além Paraíba, Balneário Camboriú, Boa Vista, Fernando de Noronha, Montes Claros, Norte do Paraná/Arapongas and Cataguases) and one station in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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External links
- Official Website (in Portuguese)