BandNewsTV

Name

BandNewsTV

Legal name

BandNewsTV

Website

https://bandnewstv.uol.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Television News Broadcasting

NAICS

Television Broadcasting Stations (51612), Television Broadcasting Stations (516120)

SIC

Television Broadcasting Stations (4833)

akta.pro primary industry

24/7 National & International News Channels (MPABAIAA)

Keywords

• 24-hour news channel
• Television broadcasting
• Digital news platform
• News content production
• Advertising-supported media

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Television Broadcasting and Advertising: BandNewsTV generates revenue through television broadcasting, likely supported by advertising. The channel is part of the Band (Bandran) network, a major Brazilian television network.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

BandNewsTV operates a 24-hour Brazilian news channel that produces and broadcasts continuous original news coverage across multiple thematic sections including Politics, World, Justice, Economy, Sports, Health, Agribusiness, Culture, and Education, with quality information updates every 20 minutes. Content is delivered free of charge to consumers via linear broadcast television, a digital website platform, YouTube, and social media channels, with revenue generated primarily through advertising.

Product overview

BandNewsTV is a 24-hour Brazilian news channel offering continuous news coverage across multiple thematic sections including Geral (General), Mundo (World), Política (Politics), Justiça (Justice), Economia (Economy), Esportes (Sports), Saúde (Health), Agronegócio (Agribusiness), Cultura e Arte (Culture and Art), and Educação (Education). The channel operates under the Newco broadcasting group which includes additional branded channels such as AgroMais, Arte1, BandSports, Fish TV, New Brasil, Sabor & Arte, Sexprivé, and Terraviva. The programming portfolio includes news programs (BandNews em 2 minutos, BandNews Live, BandNews no Mundo), talk shows (Canal Livre), business programs (Capital e Mercado, Economia pra você), documentary series (DOCS), health content (Viver Melhor, Brazil Health), and specialized forums. Content is delivered via linear broadcast and digital platforms including YouTube playlists.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BandNews TV (24-hour news channel) Brazilian 24-hour news channel offering continuous news coverage across multiple thematic sections including Politics, World, Economy, Justice, Sports, Health, Agribusiness, Culture, and Education, targeted at general Brazilian news consumers.
• BandNews em 2 minutos News program providing quick news summaries broadcast three times daily.
• Canal Livre Sunday prime-time talk show airing at 8:00 PM.
• Capital e Mercado Tuesday business and market program airing at 10:30 PM.
• Economia pra você Economy-focused program airing Thursday at 11:00 PM.
• DOCS Documentary program airing Friday at 11:30 PM.
• Gestão com identidade Saturday morning management and identity program airing at 9:45 AM.
• BandNews Live Live news program airing Sunday at 12:30 AM.
• BandNews no Mundo International news program airing Saturday at 10:30 AM.
• Viver Melhor Health and lifestyle program airing Wednesday at 11:30 PM.
• Aqui tem Vaga Employment and job opportunities program airing Tuesday at 10:00 AM.
• O que é ser brasileiro Cultural and identity-themed program airing Saturday at 7:30 AM.
• Brazil Health Health-focused section and branded content covering medical topics, treatments, and wellness.
• Cidade Viva Special report series focused on urban development and construction industry topics.
• Fórum BandNews Special forum series covering topics such as food security and climate change.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Valiant GroupcoreOthersValiant Group is the developer of BandNewsTV's website platform (bandnewstv.uol.com.br). The Valiant Group handles the digital development and content asset management for the news channel.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• BBC News (Brazil bureau): BBC News maintains a Brazil-focused international news bureau and digital coverage of Brazilian affairs. It does not operate a 24-hour Portuguese-language channel in Brazil but competes for international and English-speaking Brazilian news audiences against BandNewsTV's world news coverage.

Direct peers

• Record News: Record News is the 24-hour news channel of Grupo Record, one of Brazil's largest broadcast groups. It is a direct competitor to BandNewsTV in the Brazilian 24-hour news market with nationwide free-to-air and pay-TV reach.
• Jovem Pan News: Jovem Pan News is the 24-hour news channel of Grupo Jovem Pan, combining linear broadcast with a strong digital and social media footprint. It competes with BandNewsTV for Brazilian news audiences, particularly opinion and politics-driven segments.
• GloboNews: GloboNews is Brazil's leading 24-hour cable news channel, operated by Grupo Globo. It is the closest direct peer to BandNewsTV, competing for the same Brazilian 24-hour news audience with both linear pay-TV distribution and digital streaming.
• CNN Brasil: CNN Brasil is a 24-hour Brazilian news channel that launched in 2020 under a license with Warner Bros. Discovery. It competes directly with BandNewsTV in the Brazilian 24-hour news category, distributing via pay-TV and digital platforms.

Broad incumbents

• SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão): SBT is one of Brazil's major free-to-air broadcast networks, headquartered in São Paulo like BandNewsTV. It is a broad incumbent that competes for audience share and advertising dollars and operates its own news programming against BandNewsTV's 24-hour format.
• TV Record: TV Record is the parent broadcast network of Record News and a major free-to-air incumbent in Brazil. As a broad incumbent with both general entertainment and dedicated news (Record News), it competes with BandNewsTV across audience segments and ad verticals.
• TV Globo: TV Globo is Brazil's dominant free-to-air broadcaster and parent of GloboNews. As the broader incumbent in the Brazilian TV market, it competes with BandNewsTV for news audiences and advertising budgets, and shapes the regulatory and competitive environment.

Emerging players

• Bloomberg Línea: Bloomberg Línea is the Spanish/Portuguese-language digital business news service of Bloomberg targeting Latin American markets, including Brazil. It overlaps with BandNewsTV's Economy and Capital e Mercado programming for Brazilian business and finance audiences.
• Estúdio Fluxo / Poder360: Poder360 is a Brazilian digital politics and current affairs news outlet. It is an emerging digital-native competitor that overlaps with BandNewsTV's Politics and Justiça coverage, especially among politically engaged Brazilian online audiences.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/bandnewstv
• YouTubeyoutube.com/radiobandnewsfm
• Facebookfacebook.com/BandNews
• Instagraminstagram.com/bandnewstv
• TikToktiktok.com/@bandnewstv

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Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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