TV Gaúcha (1962-1983) district. With the use of the Porto Alegre VHF channel 12 concession by Grupo RBS authorized by the then president of the republic,
Juscelino Kubitschek, the station was inaugurated on December 29, 1962, by the communicator
Maurício Sirotsky Sobrinho. Initially, under the name TV Gaúcha, it was affiliated with Rede de Emissoras Unidas, led by TV Record and TV Rio. In the following year, it became affiliated with TV Excelsior. In 1967, with the Excelsior crisis, TV Gaúcha joined Rede Globo, founded in 1965 by journalist
Roberto Marinho in
Rio de Janeiro. From then on, most of its programming began to be produced by Rede Globo.
Jornal do Almoço, the station's main program, went on the air in 1972, when there was still no space in Rede Globo's national programming for local news at noon. To put the program on the air, TV Gaúcha interrupted Rede Globo's programming to show
JA, which was two hours long. On June 12, 1972, TV Gaúcha suffered a fire at its headquarters in Morro Santa Teresa, damaging many equipment and studios, a great loss for the station. Even so,
Jornal do Almoço was aired the next day and reported the event. In 1982, the
Galpão Crioulo program, lasting 50 minutes, was broadcast with the aim of disseminating gaucho folklore and nativist music.
RBS TV Porto Alegre (since 1983) In 1983, TV Gaúcha and the other stations of the group in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and also in
Santa Catarina, received the nomenclature of RBS TV, in the case of TV Gaúcha,
RBS TV Porto Alegre. In the same year,
RBS Notícias debuted. Starting in 1997, several local programs on RBS TV Porto Alegre that aired in the early 1990s were phased out due to lack of space for local programming on Rede Globo's schedule. Among the extinct programs, there are
Jornal da RBS,
RBS Entrevista,
Comunidade,
RBS Ecologia,
Conesul,
Teledomingo,
Patrola,
Anonymus Gourmet (which started to be shown by SBT RS), the Saturdays,
Vida e Saúde and
Mistura. During 1999, programetes of the series
Rio Grande do Sul: Um Século de História were shown, telling historical facts involving Rio Grande do Sul. December 1999. In 2007, the year in which Grupo RBS completed 50 years, RBS TV Porto Alegre now has a helicopter to carry out aerial reports, the RBS Cop. In the same year, on July 2, the broadcaster inaugurated a studio in the RBS TV newsroom in Morro Santa Teresa for the presentation of the newscast
RBS Notícias. == Digital television ==