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| Grupo Globo | |
| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Media conglomerate |
| Founded | July 25, 1925; 99 years ago (1925-07-25) |
| Founder | Irineu Marinho |
| Headquarters | , Brazil |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Revenue |  US$4.4 billion (2017) |
| Total equity |  US$542.5 million (2016) |
| Owner | Marinho family |
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| Website | grupoglobo |
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Grupo Globo (English:Globo Group), formerly and still legally known asOrganizações Globo[3] (English:Globo Organization[4]), is a Brazilianprivateentertainment andmass mediaconglomerate based inRio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1925 by Irineu Marinho, it is the largest media group in Latin America, and one of the world's largestmedia conglomerates.[5][6][7][8]
Grupo Globo's assets comprises over-the-air broadcasting, television and film production, pay television subscription service, streaming media, publishing, and online services. Its main properties include the flagship television networkTV Globo; pay television content unitCanais Globo, consisting of cable television networks such asGloboNews,GNT,Multishow,SporTV,Viva,Gloob, and the premium film networkTelecine; film production companyGlobo Filmes; radio operatorSistema Globo de Rádio; magazine and newspaper publishers,Editora Globo andInfoglobo; and the streaming serviceGloboplay.
Grupo Globo also engages inventure capital activities through Globo Ventures, and is the primary supporter of the Roberto Marinho Foundation.
The company's first enterprise was the newspaperA Noite. With its success, publishing in the late afternoon, Irineu Marinho decided to launch the morning dailyO Globo in 1925. After his sudden death, just weeks after its launch, his son,Roberto Pisani Marinho, became the company's director. Working actively in the media business, Roberto Marinho decided to invest in other areas and launched Radio Globo in 1944. However, the company only became recognizable nationwide after the launching of Rede Globo (now known asTV Globo), the world's second-largest commercial TV network in 1965.[9]
The company is currently run by the sons of Roberto Marinho:Roberto Irineu Marinho,João Roberto Marinho andJosé Roberto Marinho. In May 2013, a study released by media agencyZenithOptimedia showed Globo occupied the 17th place in a list of the top global media owners. It was the first time the company appeared on this ranking.[10] This ranking remained in 2015,[11] but in 2017 the company's fell to 19th place,[12] and in June of the same year Grupo Globo signed a joint venture deal withVice Media.[13]
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