SBT
SBT, short for Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (Brazilian Television System [1]), also know as Silvio Blaying Television it's a Brazilian TV channel that blatantly copies ABC. The channel is best known for its charismatic founder, Silvio Santos, a rich and likeable man who does commercials for Colgate who has bright teeth.
History[edit | edit source]
Silvio Santos was a fairly well-known man in Brazil in the 1970s and in the 1980s, and he was also rich.
In the early 1980s, Silvio wanted to fulfill one of his most audacious dreams: to create a television channel. Everyone doubted it, but he succeeded! Thus, he founded SBT, plagiarizing drawing inspiration from American television networks.
Low viewership[edit | edit source]
Since the 2000s, SBT has had low ratings, occasionally tying with smaller channels. But SBT remains strong and resilient.
Controversies[edit | edit source]
WWE exhibition[edit | edit source]
Silvio Santos, already weakened, decided to steal viewers from other channels and broadcast WWE fights on SBT. But some children with intellectual disabilities began to apply the moves they saw in the WWE fights at school, causing Silvio to stop showing the fights on SBT.
South Park exhibition[edit | edit source]
In 2004, Silvio Santos, in yet another of his inventions, decided to air South Park at 10 PM, but since the rating stipulated that the program could only be shown after 11 PM, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice fined SBT 50,000 reais.
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Footnotes[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ But just because SBT is an abbreviation for that, doesn't mean it's the only TV channel Brazilians watch.