Rede Mulher was a

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from Brazil founded on August 8, 1994. Though the broadcast was made from the city of Araraquara, in the central region of the

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, all of its television productions was produced in the broadcaster's studios in the capital,

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. Since the channel's debut, the IBOPE (measure of channel popularity) has been relatively low. Promising to invest in quality and in the workers, the Universal Church, bought part of the station in 1999 through

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. Shortly after the purchase of the broadcaster,

moved the headquarters of Rede Mulher to the old premises of

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, at Miruna Avenue in Moema—unoccupied since the broadcast moved to the Barra Funda neighborhood in 1995. From this, structural investments in the channel began. In September 2000, Rede Mulher invested US$500.000 in the acquisition of a new digital capture and completion system, reworked its studios and launched new programs. In early 2001, a news department was created and new news programs started. In mid-December 2004, Rede Mulher had to answer a lawsuit in the 5th Federal Civil Court, for showing programs of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God that "demonize Afro-Brazilian religions, such as

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and

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" because they be referred to with terms such as "backrest," "demons," "witchcraft" and "witchcraft". Rede Mulher stated that "programs are the responsibility of those who produce them." The broadcaster was accused of racism along with Rede Record. With low IBOPE, Rede Record developed a project for a future 24-hour news channel entitled Record News, between the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007. With the expansion of Rede Mulher into hundreds of Brazilian municipalities, it was defined that the broadcaster would give way to the new one as soon as it was launched. At midnight on September 27, 2007, Rede Mulher went offline after the ''Realidade Atual'' program, when it was officially replaced by Record News with the exhibition of a countdown to 8 pm on September 27, when TV Record São Paulo turned 54. And so, the professionals of Rede Mulher were mostly dismissed. Until the present day, Rede Record shows no interest in bringing back to Rede Mulher. Besides that the station did not mark a good IBOPE, however, both the logo and the name of the station still belong to Record.

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{{reflist Portuguese-language television networks Defunct television channels in Brazil Women's interest channels Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007 Television channels and stations established in 1994