Rede Amazônica Tabatinga
{{Infobox television station
| name = Rede Amazônica Tabatinga
| callsign =
| logo =
| branding = Rede Amazônica
| analog =
| digital = 15 (UHF)
| virtual = 4
| affiliations = TV Globo
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1978|01|p=y}}
| last_airdate = {{End date|2021|10|22}}
| location = Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brazil
| callsign_meaning =
| sister_stations =
| former_names = TV Boca do Acre (1978-2015)
| former_channel_numbers =
| former_affiliations = Rede Bandeirantes (1975-1982)
| owner = Rede Amazônica (Phelippe Daou Jr.)
| licensee = Rádio TV do Amazonas Ltda.
| erp = 0.25 kW
| haat =
| anatel_id = 57dbaadef2314
| coordinates =
| licensing_authority = ANATEL
| website = {{URL|redeglobo.globo.com/redeamazonica}}
}}
Rede Amazônica Tabatinga was a Brazilian television station based in Tabatinga, a city in the state of Amazonas. It operated on VHF analog channel 4 and was affiliated to TV Globo. It was owned by Grupo Rede Amazônica.
History
TV Tabatinga was inaugurated in January 1978, in a ceremony that was attended by the bishop of the Diocese of Letícia (a neighboring Colombian city where the new station's signal would reach) and Father Alcimar Magalhães, as well as the then Minister of Communications Quandt de Oliveira and the station's founder, journalist Philippe Daou.{{cite web|last=Baze|first=Abrahim|url=https://portalamazonia.com/historias-da-amazonia/grupo-rede-amazonica-uma-historia-um-legado|title=Grupo Rede Amazônica – Uma história, um legado|date=8 February 2022|access-date=3 July 2023|website=Portal Amazônia}}
Initially, the station had a concession in Benjamin Constant, due to the fact that until 1983, the town of Tabatinga was still part of that municipality. The broadcaster was authorized by the Ministry of Communications on an exceptional basis, considering the difficulties of installing conventional relay stations in the northern region of the country.{{cite news|url=https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/diarios/3278029/pg-51-secao-1-diario-oficial-da-uniao-dou-de-27-07-1977 |title=PORTARIA N° 15.997 DE 21 DE JULHO DE 1977 |date=27 July 1977 |access-date=3 July 2023 |newspaper=Diário Oficial da União |author=Idalécio Nogueira Diogenes |page=51}}
Like the other Rede Amazônica stations in the state, TV Tabatinga began its activities as an affiliate of Rede Bandeirantes, retransmitting programming through tapes recorded in Manaus by TV Amazonas due to the lack of satellite. In 1986, with the transition of Rede Globo between TV Ajuricaba and TV Amazonas, the station also left Bandeirantes and became affiliated with the Rio network.{{cite web|last=Baze|first=Abrahm|url=https://portalamazonia.com/historias-da-amazonia/grupo-rede-amazonica-a-caminho-de-meio-seculo-de-memoria|title=Grupo Rede Amazônica – A caminho de meio século de memória|date=31 May 2021|access-date=5 December 2021|website=Portal Amazônia}}
On March 31, 1997, TV Tabatinga received official authorization from the Ministry of Communications to operate on channel 4 VHF in the municipality of Tabatinga, 14 years after the political-administrative emancipation of the city.{{cite newspaper |url=https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/diarios/1100394/pg-96-secao-1-diario-oficial-da-uniao-dou-de-31-03-1997 |title=PORTARIAS DE 17 DE DEZEMBRO DE 1996 |date=31 March 1997 |access-date=3 July 2023 |newspaper=Diário Oficial da União |author=Aldecy de Alencar Ribeiro |page=96}} In 2004, with the aim of expanding the broadcaster's journalism participation, it was the second in the Rede Amazônica compound to receive equipment for sending reports via the internet to TV Amazonas using an FTP server, after TV Manacapuru.{{cite web|url=https://tede.ufam.edu.br/bitstream/tede/4508/1/LU%C3%8DS%20AUGUSTO%20PIRES%20BATISTA.pdf|title=TELEJORNALISMO NA AMAZÔNIA: O FTP COMO INSTRUMENTO DE INTEGRAÇÃO REGIONAL|date=2010|access-date=28 June 2023|publisher=Universidade Federal do Amazonas|author=Luís Augusto Pires Batista}}
On the night of July 7, 2011, a TV Tabatinga team was the only one to record the fall of a meteor, which could be seen by residents of the municipalities of Tabatinga and Santa Isabel do Rio Negro.{{cite web|url=https://portalamazonia.com/amazonia/relembre-a-queda-do-meteoro-que-surpreendeu-moradores-de-tabatinga|title=VÍDEO: Você sabia que a queda de um meteoro foi registrada em 2011, na cidade de Tabatinga?|date=17 January 2022|access-date=3 July 2023|website=Portal Amazônia}} The footage had national repercussion and was shown in the following day's edition of Jornal Hoje, on Rede Globo.{{cite web|url=https://g1.globo.com/jornal-hoje/noticia/2011/07/meteoro-e-visto-no-amazonas.html|title=Meteoro é visto no Amazonas|date=8 July 2011|access-date=3 July 2023|website=G1|publisher=Jornal Hoje}}
On March 19, 2012, the Public Electoral Ministry of Amazonas asked the state's Electoral Court that TV Tabatinga be ordered to stop showing advertisements for the City of Tabatinga, under penalty of a daily fine.{{cite web|url=https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/mp-eleitoral-entra-com-representacao-contra-prefeito-de-tabatinga/3058280|title=MP Eleitoral entra com representação contra Prefeito de Tabatinga|date=19 March 2012|access-date=3 July 2023|website=Jusbrasil|publisher=Ministério Público do Estado do Amazonas}} The body understood that the pieces, in which Mayor Saul Nunes appeared presenting achievements of his administration, would be part of advance electoral propaganda for that year's municipal elections in the city, and requested the manager's conviction for broadcasting the advertisement.{{cite web|url=https://g1.globo.com/am/amazonas/noticia/2012/03/prefeito-de-tabatinga-am-e-suspeito-de-propaganda-eleitoral-antecipada.html|title=Prefeito de Tabatinga (AM) é suspeito de propaganda eleitoral antecipada|date=19 March 2012|access-date=3 July 2023|website=G1 Amazonas}}
On January 3, 2015, like the other stations of the regional network, the station was renamed Rede Amazônica Tabatinga.{{cite web|url=https://www.jarunoticia.com.br/momento-nossa-historia-rede-amazonica/|title=Momento Nossa História: Rede Amazônica|date=24 June 2020|access-date=5 December 2021|website=Jaru Notícia}} On April 27, 2020, a criminal broke into the station's facilities and stole the camera used by video reporter Rôney Elias.{{cite web|last=Bhacana|first=Marcelo|url=https://fronteiratv.com/04/2020/filmadora-e-roubada-da-tv-tabatinga/|title=Filmadora é roubada da TV Tabatinga|date=27 April 2020|access-date=3 July 2023|website=Fronteira TV|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20221004111646/https://fronteiratv.com/04/2020/filmadora-e-roubada-da-tv-tabatinga/|archive-date=4 October 2022|url-status=dead}}
On October 22, 2021, Rede Amazônica Tabatinga had its commercial department (which continued to be based in Benjamin Constant even after the station's city of concession was changed) closed by Rede Amazônica.{{cite web|url=http://cnpj.info/Radio-Tv-do-Amazonas-Rede-Amazonica-Benjamim-Constant |title=Radio Tv do Amazonas LTDA {{!}} Rede Amazonica - Benjamin Constant |access-date=3 July 2023 |website=cnpj.info}} The fact marked the closure of the station, which became a repeater of Rede Amazônica Manaus. Reporter Rôney Elias continued working in the Alto Solimões region as a correspondent.{{cite web|url=https://globoplay.globo.com/v/11706447/|title=Temperatura em Tabatinga, no interior do AM, chega a 17º C - 16/06/2023|date=16 June 2023|access-date=3 July 2023|website=Globoplay|publisher=Bom Dia Amazônia}}
Technical information
TV Tabatinga was authorized to operate on digital television using UHF channel 15 on May 16, 2012.{{cite news |url=https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/diarios/37005415/dou-secao-1-16-05-2012-pg-66 |title=PORTARIA N° 453, DE 13 DE ABRIL DE 2012 |date=30 July 2012 |access-date=3 July 2023 |newspaper=Diário Oficial da União |author=Genildo Lins de Albuquerque Neto |page=66}} The station closed before oficially implementing the technology.{{cite web|url=https://portalbsd.com.br/terrestres_channels.php?cidade=397|title=Tabatinga - AM|access-date=3 July 2023|website=Portal BSD}}