Grupo Globo (; ), formerly and still legally known as Organizações Globo (; ), is a Brazilian private entertainment and mass media conglomerate based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1925 by Irineu Marinho, it is the largest media group in Latin America, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates.
Grupo Globo's assets comprise over-the-air broadcasting, television and film production, pay television subscription service, streaming media, publishing, and online services. Its main properties include media company , consisting of the flagship television network TV Globo; the streaming service Globoplay, pay television content unit Canais Globo, consisting of cable television networks such as GloboNews, GNT, Multishow, SporTV, Viva, Gloob, and the premium film network Telecine; film production company Globo Filmes; radio operator Sistema Globo de Rádio and magazine and newspaper publisher, Editora Globo, including .
History
The company's first enterprise was the newspaper A Noite. With its success, publishing in the late afternoon, Irineu Marinho decided to launch the morning daily O Globo in 1925. After his sudden death, just weeks after its launch, his son, Roberto Pisani Marinho, became the company's director. Working actively in the media business, Roberto Marinho decided to invest in other areas and launched Radio Globo in 1944. However, the company only became recognizable nationwide after the launching of Rede Globo (now known as TV Globo), the world's second-largest commercial TV network in 1965.
The company is currently run by the sons of Roberto Marinho: Roberto Irineu Marinho, João Roberto Marinho and José Roberto Marinho. In May 2013, a study released by media agency ZenithOptimedia showed Globo occupied the 17th place in a list of the top global media owners. It was the first time the company appeared on this ranking. This ranking remained in 2015, but in 2017 the company's fell to 19th place, and in June of the same year Grupo Globo signed a joint venture deal with Vice Media.
Assets owned by Grupo Globo Globo Free-to-air television TV Globo Futura
Pay television
Canal Brasil GloboNews Gloob GNT Multishow Playboy TV Premiere Rede Telecine Sexy Hot SporTV Viva NBCUniversal International Networks Brasil (joint-venture with Comcast/NBCUniversal) Universal TV Studio Universal USA TV Globo Internacional Globo Portugal Globo Now Globo On (Africa)
Film and television production Estúdios Globo Globo Filmes
Internet
G1 Globoplay
Radio Sistema Globo de Rádio CBN Rádio Globo
Books, newspapers and magazines Editora Globo Extra O Globo Valor Econômico
Former properties Som Livre (Acquired by Sony Music in April 2021) SKY Brasil (Vrio Corp. acquired the 7% stake in Grupo Globo) Telemontecarlo (1985–1994, acquired by Vittorio Cecchi Gori) Retequattro (1982-1985?), acquired by Silvio Berlusconi Communications, now Mediaset
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