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Last Sunday, municipal elections were held in Portugal, and RTP, that country's public service broadcaster, chose that date to relaunch its FTA news channel, RTP3, which became RTP Notícias, just before election night coverage (simulcast between RTP1, RTP Notícias and overseas channel RTP Internacional). RTP1 and RTP2 newscasts were also affected by the rebrand. Lisbon-based Bom Dia Portugal (weekday) and Telejornal (both simulcast on RTP Notícias, the latter being RTP1's main evening newscast) moved out of their previous, massive studio, which, until a couple of years ago, also featured a working newsroom, after 21 years and multiple renovations (used since the merger of the "old" RTP and radio broadcaster RDP into the current RTP, with the combined organization moving into the current building, in east Lisbon, near the area that hosted Expo 98) into the former home of the Portuguese version of The Price is Right; and Porto-based Jornal da Tarde, Bom Dia Portugal (weekend) and Jornal 2 moved from a virtual studio (which replicated the Lisbon sets, except for Jornal 2) into a physical one, with a set nearly identical to the new one in Lisbon. For comparison, this is how Telejornal looked like until this week: And back in 2004, when RTP moved into its current headquarters, with a tour of its now-former news studio:

Unlike what was expected, dedicated newscasts for TV Asa Branca Alagoas, the new TV Globo affiliate in that Brazilian state, are yet to be launched, with no date set, but, in the meantime, the station, since it signed on, has been producing news reports in the state for Bom Dia Pernambuco and NETV (with its editions also called NE1 and NE2), produced by TV Globo Nordeste (the O&O station in Recife/Olinda, Pernambuco), and currently simulcast by Asa Branca (whose original station, in Caruaru, already simulcasts Bom Dia Pernambuco, since it's a statewide broadcast, followed by an Asa Branca-produced local block). Meanwhile, former affiliate TV Gazeta, now an independent station, has relaunched its local newscasts, removing most traces of Globo branding (including its graphics template and theme for its local newscasts), bar the custom Globotipo font on the station's 50th anniversary logo and similar lower-thirds. The names "Bom Dia Alagoas", "AL1" and "AL2" were kept, as they're owned by TV Gazeta (similar scenarios happened back in the 1980s and '90s, when TV Aratu - now an SBT affiliate - lost TV Globo affiliation to Rede Bahia de Televisão, but kept the name "Bom Dia Bahia" - Rede Bahia's statewide morning news is called "Jornal da Manhã" - and TV Difusora - also an SBT affiliate now - also lost TV Globo affiliation, to TV Mirante, but similarly kept the name "Bom Dia Maranhão" - TV Mirante calls its morning news "Bom Dia Mirante").

Just like you, in the US, here in Brazil we're also getting our own affiliation shakeups: In Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, TV Fronteira was stripped of its TV Globo affiliation, after its owner used the station for his own benefit, during his (eventually failed) campaign for mayor of that city, which went against Globo rules (and even some legal and regulatory issues, but that's a different story). After that, TV Fronteira went independent and TV TEM, a TV Globo affiliate based in Bauru, around 270km/168mi away, started covering the area through re-transmitters (and local news coverage was severely affected, since the translators only replicate the feed from Bauru, and reports from Prudente, which were added with the station's coverage area expansion, are very limited). The moment TV Fronteira stopped broadcasting TV Globo: On the first weekday after the affiliation switch, TV TEM's midday newscast had its first block simulcast across all the group's stations, covering 60% of São Paulo state: TV Fronteira's first evening newscast as an independent station: Also losing TV Globo affiliation, after a long legal battle, is TV Gazeta, in the state of Alagoas, owned by Organização Arnon de Mello, which has among its owners former Brazilian president and currently senator Fernando Collor de Mello. TV Asa Branca, based in Caruaru, Pernambuco, took over the affiliation, through a new, full-powered station in Maceió, and the local news operation is expected to start this Wednesday (October 1st) - until then, the new station is simulcasting TV Globo Nordeste, the network's O&O station in the Recife/Olinda area, also in Pernambuco. https://g1.globo.com/pe/caruaru-regiao/noticia/2025/09/27/globo-inicia-transmissao-em-alagoas-pela-tv-asa-branca.ghtml https://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/televisao/apos-piratear-atracoes-da-globo-em-alagoas-tv-de-collor-decide-obedecer-stf-141993 The last time TV Globo was involved in such major affiliation switches was back in 2008, when TV Leste, their then-affiliate in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, refused to sell out to Rede Inter TV (which owns TV Globo affiliates in three states - Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Norte) and decided to join the RECORD (their name is in all-caps now) network. TV dos Vales (based in Coronel Fabriciano, 115km/71mi away), the RECORD affiliate covering the area, and just one year old at the time, switched to TV Globo and was eventually sold to Inter TV, becoming Inter TV dos Vales.

In Spain (specifically, in Catalonia), public service broadcaster CCMA (operating under the brand name 3Cat) has relaunched its news service last Wednesday (September 17th) under the 3CatInfo brand: radio station Catalunya Informació became 3CatInfo ràdio, and TV channel 3/24 is now 3CatInfo TV. TV3's newscasts, Telenotícies, were also relaunched: Here in Brazil, big news at TV Globo, our most-watched network: William Bonner, co-anchor of Jornal Nacional, its flagship newscast, is leaving the broadcast, both as presenter and as editor-in-chief, after 29 years behind the desk, this November. He will remain at the network, though, co-hosting (joining Sandra Annenberg) and producing select episodes of the weekly documentary series, Globo Repórter, starting next year. This is causing a game of musical chairs at Globo and its São Paulo-based newscasts: César Tralli, currently at midday newscast Jornal Hoje, will move to Rio de Janeiro (where the Globo headquarters are located) and replace Bonner at JN, joining Renata Vasconcellos, who will remain at the broadcast; replacing Tralli at JH is Roberto Kovalick, currently at early morning newscast Hora Um, which will be presented by Tiago Scheuer (currently doing traffic and weather updates at statewide morning newscast Bom Dia São Paulo, which will be done by Marcelo Pereira, currently at Hora Um and who will reprise his duo with anchor Sabina Simonato, they're both co-anchors of national Saturday morning newscast Bom Dia Sábado); Natuza Nery will take over the 6pm hour on the GloboNews channel (where she already hosts the weekly political debate program Central GloboNews).

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Brazil's Record TV, just one year after they last renovated their news set, they decided to tear it down, remove the working newsroom, since it was pretty empty during primetime and build an entirely new set for their flagship newscast, Jornal da Record, which launched last night, with the addition of four short bulletins throughout the day, called Jornal da Record 24 Horas. Here's how the flagship 9:30pm BRT newscast looks like: The first-ever Jornal da Record 24 Horas bulletin (0:30am BRT edition - JR 24H also has bulletins at 11:40am, 4:45pm and 5:45pm): And how JR used to look like: And the close from the temporary green-screen set, last Friday: