TV TEM Sorocaba (channel 26) is a television station in

Sorocaba Sorocaba () is a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. With over 723,000 inhabitants, it is the seventh-largest city in the state and the second-largest outside the Greater São Paulo region, ranking behind only Cam ...

, São Paulo, Brazil, affiliated with

TV Globo TV Globo (stylized as tvglobo; , ), formerly known as Rede Globo de Televisão (; shortened to Rede Globo) or simply known as Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air Television broadcasting, television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto M ...

, flagship station of

TV TEM TV TEM (stylized in lowercase; initials of Traffic Entertainment and Marketing) is a Brazilian regional television network affiliated with TV Globo. Its headquarters are located in Sorocaba, São Paulo. It covers 318 cities of the state of São P ...

and owned by

Traffic Group Traffic Group is a sports event management company founded in Brazil, headquartered in São Paulo. History Traffic Group holds the television rights to a number of association football matches in the Americas including Copa América, Copa Lib ...

. TV TEM Sorocaba's studios are located on Engenheiro Carlos Reinaldo Mendes Avenue, in the Além Ponte district, and its transmitter is located on Ministro Coqueijo Costa Street, in the Alto da Boa Vista district.

History

The station was founded on December 1, 1990 as ''TV Aliança Paulista''. In 1998, it was renamed ''TV Aliança'' and on May 6, 2003, when it was acquired by the businessman José Hawilla, owner of Traffic Group, it received its current name.

Digital television

The station started its digital transmissions on April 21, 2009, over UHF channel 26, in experimental character. On July 14, the minister of communications Hélio Costa signed the license of the channel, authorizing the definitive transmissions, that started on July 27.

Transition to digital signal

The station turned off its analog signal, over UHF channel 33, on January 17, 2018, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remains on its pre-transition UHF channel 26, using PSIP to display TV TEM Sorocaba's virtual channel as 26 on digital television receivers.

References

{{Reflist TV Globo affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1990 1990 establishments in Brazil