1. COMPANY REPORT TV Station TV Bandeirantes, Campinas, SP, Brazil
■ This antenna tower is used by TV Bandeirantes
to broadcast the local version of its programming
to the city of Campinas. In addition to three TV
channels, there’s also three FM radio stations
and one AM radio station that are broadcasted.
Satellite Dishes at
TV Bandeirantes
The Bandeirantes corporation also issues the
local version of the free Metro newspaper.
• The most modern reception and transmission
technology in Brazil
• Receives and transmits in HD
• Receives the main program via satellite
• A specialty is the combination of analog and digital
channels
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2. COMPANY REPORT TV Station TV Bandeirantes, Campinas, SP, Brazil
A Local TV Station
in Campinas Utilizes ë Campinas
the Most Modern
HDTV Technology
The distribution of programming via
satellite is required by many of the
■ Broadcast technician Joao
Carlos in the engineering national TV chains so that all of the
room. The signals from linked local stations can receive their
the satellite antennas are
received here in HD. programming. In the city of Campinas
about 100km north of Sao Paulo can
be found one of the most modern local
TV stations from TV Bandeirantes; it is
completely set up for HDTV.
On a hill overlooking Campinas,
there’s a row of antenna masts for the
city’s local TV channels. One of those
masts belongs to TV Bandeirantes.
This TV station transmits in analog on
Channel 4 as well as Channel 15 but on
Channel 16 the programming is trans-
mitted digitally and in HD.
Jose Mariano is the station’s Chief
Engineer and explains to us: “The first
TV tower was erected on this spot back
in 1996. In 2003 the entire system
was rebuilt and that’s what you see
here today.” Four engineers make sure
that everything runs smoothly with all
broadcasts.
One of them is Joao Carlos, who told
us more about the station’s satellite
antennas: “We operate a 5.0-meter
dish and a backup 3.2-meter antenna.
Both of them are pointed to BRASIL-
SAT 4 at 84W and receive the signals
in MPEG-4.” Another 3.6-meter dish re-
ceives the signals from the STARONE
C2 satellite at 70W.
An interesting feature of the sta-
tion are the antenna combiners. TV
Bandeirantes transmits in Campinas
on UHF channel 15 in analog and on
UHF channel 16 in digital. Both of
these signals are merged in the com-
biner and then routed to the broad-
casting antennas.
Antenna specialist Nivaldo da Silva
was responsible for aligning the satel-
lite dishes. He is considered the sat-
ellite guru in this region. He has the
experience and expertise to profes-
sionally set up these antennas. He ad-
mits that sometimes he “talks” to the
antennas and LNBs; that earned him
the nickname “Antenna Whisperer”.
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1. The TV Bandeirantes control room. The TV
Bandeirantes national channel is received via
satellite and is supplemented here with locally
produced programming.
2. In the control room the technician can at
any time access exterior cameras that are
always active some of which are operated
by TV Bandeirantes themselves and others
that are operated by the local municipality.
The municipal cameras include those on the
highways and at specific locations in the
city as well as a camera at the local airport.
The technician in the control room can use a
joystick to remotely pan and zoom the cameras.
If there’s a local event, the signals from these
2 cameras can immediately be routed to the
broadcaster.
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4. ■ A TV Bandeirantes
specialty: the analog and
digital broadcast signals
are merged together in the
combiner.
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5. ■ This is Nivaldo da Silva. He is the
Sao Paulo region’s satellite specialist
when it has to do with the precise
alignment of satellite antennas. He
took all of TV Bandeirantes’ satellite
antennas and precisely aligned them
to each corresponding satellite. His
nickname is “Antenna Whisperer”.
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