TV Bahia currently broadcasts 23 hours, 20 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4 hours, 15 minutes each weekday and 2 hours, 5 minutes on Saturdays). The station also produces the 25-minute local sports show
Globo Esporte Bahia, from Monday to Saturday, right after the newscast
Bahia Meio Dia. TV Bahia's news operation began with
Bahia em Manchete, a newscast shown at 7:15 pm, which premiered on March 11, 1985, and was presented by Paulo Gil. In sports, the first program was Manchete Esportiva Bahia, with Ivan Pedro. A new program entered the station's schedule three months later:
Bahia Debate, hosted by the then Rede Manchete journalist
Ney Gonçalves Dias. In the program, which was shown on Thursdays, he interviewed the candidates for mayor of Salvador in the municipal election of that year. In July 1986, TV Bahia hired journalist Kátia Guzzo, presenter of variety program
Mulher Total on then-
SBT affiliate TV Itapoan (channel 5, now RecordTV Itapoan), to co-anchor
Bahia Agora, the station's first noon newscast, accompanying journalist Paulo Brandão. As a result of affiliating with Globo in January 1987, TV Bahia restructured its news operation to produce three daily newscasts. Paulo Gil remained host of the evening newscast, which was retitled
BATV 2ª Edição on January 23. The
BATV 3ª Edição premiered in the early morning, presented by Paulo Brandão. The noon newscast was rebranded
BATV 1ª Edição the next day, presented by Cristina Barude. TV Bahia's first morning production,
Jornal da Manhã, hosted by Kátia Guzzo, debuted on January 26.
Jornal da Manhã suffered its first anchor change four years after its premiere, in 1991, when Kátia Guzzo was replaced by Regina Coeli. The morning show gained a double presentation in 1993, when Regina was joined by Casemiro Neto.
Jornal da Manhã and
BATV 1ª Edição readopted the
Bahia Agora name from 1993 to July 1995, when the title began to be used for a feature magazine hosted by Anna Valéria. As Nilo was entering the PF headquarters, his lawyer, the former Bahia justice secretary Marcelo Duarte, pushed Carlos Eduardo, who unbalanced and fell down a ladder with the camera. Also in the same day, while leaving the PF headquarters, Nilo Coelho ran over photographer Marcelo Tinoco, of Grupo TV Bahia-ownered newspaper
Correio da Bahia. The former governor fled without giving any help. In 1994, the news coverage of TV Bahia became involved in new controversies due to the control of the station by the Magalhães family. After polls indicated the unpopularity of Salvador's public administration, Mayor Lídice da Mata, an opponent of governor ACM, criticized the station for showing news reports on the problems of the city's administration, especially those related to the situation of public transportation in the capital. According to the mayor's accusations, the coverage of the city's problems on the news was aimed at damaging her popularity by "brainwashing" the population. In 2001, news director Carlos Libório denied that TV Bahia had treated the manager unfairly, mentioning occasions when she received space for clarifications at the station. Kátia Guzzo moved from
BATV 1ª Edição to
BATV 2ª Edição in 1996, when then-anchor Emmerson José opted to run for
city council. On August 25, 1997, noon newscast
Bahia Meio Dia premiered, replacing
Bahia Agora and
BATV 1ª Edição. The new newscast merged the two programs, being hosted by Anna Valéria, Casemiro Neto and Cristina Barude. TV Bahia was the first television station in the state to use a helicopter for news coverage. The aircraft, which started to be used during the carnival coverage in February 1999, was called
BahiaCop, and was used for live traffic bulletins, as well as reports and coverage that required aerial images. On August 29, 1999, TV Bahia premiered the information program
Bahia Rural, with information about
farming and
cattle-raising and the interior of Bahia, presented by Valber Carvalho. After 23 years leading the TV Bahia news department, journalist Carlos Libório retired on March 13, 2008; he was replaced as news director by Roberto Appel, former journalism manager at RBS TV. In the wake of the change in leadership, several changes in format were made, most notably the introduction of a two-anchor format to
BATV; Guzzo was paired with Jefferson Beltrão, who moved from TV Itapoan. The pairing continued until 2015, when Beltrão was dismissed and Guzzo, who shifted to producing special reports for TV Bahia, who left the newscast after 19 years and became a special reporter for the station 1 month later. was replaced with Camila Marinho. On July 21, 2012,
Nelson Pelegrino, a candidate for mayor of Salvador, filed a lawsuit claiming that a report on the anniversary of Magalhães's death the previous's day featuring an interview with
ACM Neto — his grandson, son of ACM Júnior, and a rival candidate — unfairly benefited Neto. On August 3, however, the Electoral Court of Brazil ruled the accusation as unfounded. According to Ângela Bacellar Batista, judge of the 18th Electoral Zone, there was no breach of equality before the law, as
Mário Kertész, who was running for the same position, was also interviewed for the same report. {{Blockquote During the carnival of 2014, TV Bahia again debuted a helicopter for news coverage, debuting
RedeCop. The aircraft provided services to the station until June 30, 2016, when TV Bahia's contract with the São Paulo-based company Time News, responsible for the equipment, was terminated. Like other affiliates that aired local programming right after
Fantástico on Sundays, the last edition of
Rede Bahia Revista, produced since 1998, was aired on January 18, 2015. The program left the schedule due to changes in Rede Globo's programming for the time slot. As a result of increased competition from RecordTV Itapoan during the exhibition of early afternoon program
Balanço Geral BA, several changes were made. News director Appel retired and was replaced by Eurico Meira da Costa, who had held the same post at
NSC TV, the Globo affiliate in
Santa Catarina. In response, TV Bahia hired
Jessica Senra from RecordTV Itapoan to host a revamped
Bahia Meio Dia, which resulted in an immediate increase in ratings. Another action to improve the channel's midday ratings was taken on November 26, 2018, with the removal of Globo's health program
Bem Estar from the weekly schedule to expand
Bahia Meio Dia; as a result, it began airing 15 to 30 minutes earlier than similar newscasts on other Rede Globo affiliates. The station noted that low ratings for Globo network programming were harming its own local newscast. 2018 also saw the debut of a Saturday morning newscast,
Bom Dia Sábado. On February 26, 2018, the station committed a gaffe when it accidentally showed the body of a dead man during a report on
Jornal da Manhã, which station policy typically prohibits. It appeared in the background of a live report for 40 seconds until it was spotted and reporter Vanderson Nascimento was alerted to position himself to block the corpse. João Gomes, then executive director of television at Rede Bahia, classified the event as a "human error" and further stated that the incident was not an attempt to gain ratings, citing TV Bahia's number-one position in that timeslot. After two decades with the station hosting
Bahia Rural, Valber Carvalho left TV Bahia in 2019, with the program being hosted by two former reporters, Georgina Maynart and station veteran José Raimundo. Raimundo would leave TV Bahia in 2021 after 31 years. On December 12, 2021, Camila Marinho, accompanied by cameraman Cleriston Santana, was attacked by supporters and members of president
Jair Bolsonaro's security team as she tried to cover his visit to the city of
Itamaraju, in the far southern of Bahia, due to heavy rains that wreaked havoc in the city and in the region. Her microphone was damaged by the municipality's secretary of works, Antonio Charbel, and she was also the victim of an attempted
rear naked choke hold by one of the security guards, in addition to having a
fanny pack stolen. Reporters Xico Lopes and Dário Cerqueira, from TV Aratu, were with TV Bahia reporters and were also attacked. The events were reported on TV Globo's national news programs, and the network repudiated the attacks on both teams. Rede Bahia also released a statement denouncing the action. On September 28, 2023, TV Bahia announced, at a Rede Bahia event for the market, the premiere of the programs
Onde Tem Bahia, presented by reporter Eduardo Oliveira, and
Diga Aí, presented by Jessica Senra. The first program, which highlights Bahia's
exports, premiered on October 1 and was shown after
Fantástico in two episodes. Jessica's program, on the other hand, is a
talk show with an auditorium, which premiered on November 26.
Notable on-air staff Current •
Former •
Carlos Viana • • •
Jessica Senra • (deceased) • •
Wanda Chase (deceased) ==Technical information==