overview

holdings

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This chronology is indicative only.

Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline on this site.

1911 Irenau Marinho founds O Noite daily in Brazil

1925 Irenau sells O Noite, founds O Globo daily, dies

1925 son Roberto Marinho takes control of O Globo

1934 launches tabloid O Globo Juvenil

1939 launches Gibi comic

1944 buys radio station, basis of Sistema Globo de Radio network

1962 signs licensing and joint venture deal with Time-Life

1965 launches TV Globo in Rio de Janeiro

1969 Time-Life deal dissolved after Brazil's Supreme Court decided that it breaches foreign ownership restrictions

1972 owns stations in São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, and Recife

1985 buys 90% of Telemontecarlo

1991 takes 15% stake in Portuguese tv broadcaster Sociedade Independente de Communicaçao (SIC)

1994 sells Telemontecarlo stake

1999 Microsoft takes stake in Globo Cabo

1998 Globo launches tabloid in Rio

1999 Globo sells controlling stake in telecommunications manufacturer NEC do Brasil to partner NEC of Japan

2000 launches tabloid in Sao Paulo

2000 Telecom Italia buys 30% of Globo.com for US$810m

2002 Globo reports loss of US$1.6bn

2003 death of Roberto Marinho

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