In 1960, TV Jornal started testing on channel 2 in Recife, becoming the first station to go on air in the state. Although
TV Rádio Clube opened two weeks before TV Jornal, the station had already been in testing for some time. TV Jornal became the oldest television station in Pernambuco when the Federal Government revoked TV Rádio Clube's concession in 1980, together with
Rede Tupi. TV Jornal was inaugurated on June 18 by F. Pessoa de Queiroz, then owner of
Jornal do Commercio and Rádio Jornal. The station was installed in a modern building in the Santo Amaro neighborhood, where, in the 70s, the radio station also moved (which was previously located at Rua do Imperador, in the same building where the newspaper was also located). The building, which maintains its architecture unchanged to this day, was the first to be designed specifically for a television station, with three large studios, one of which is an auditorium for 250 seats, dressing rooms, a makeup room, as well as a boutique and a restaurant. TV Jornal also had its own carpentry facility, responsible for making and maintaining the sets, which were specially prepared to meet its needs. The equipment was imported from the British company
Marconi, which served everything from its news operation to entertainment productions. the frequency was eventually taken by
TV Bandeirantes Bahia in 1981. In 1979, the station joined
Rede Bandeirantes, which remained until 1987. That year, the Sistema Jornal do Commercio de Comunicação began to go through a crisis that almost led TV Jornal and the group's companies to bankruptcy. TV Jornal spent 43 days with nothing but color bars on screen, without broadcasting anything from Rede Bandeirantes or any local programs. The situation remained the same, when the then businessman João Carlos Paes Mendonça, owner of the Bompreço supermarket chain (which today belongs to the Carrefour Brasil Group)) bought the communications group. From then on, TV Jornal and the other companies in the group became part of the JCPM Group. TV Jornal left Rede Bandeirantes and affiliated with SBT, a network with which it still holds an affiliation today. ==Digital signal==