Jornal Nacional
| Jornal Nacional | |
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| Presented by |
William Bonner Renata Vasconcellos |
| Theme music composer | Frank De Vol |
| Opening theme | "The Fuzz" |
| Country of origin |
 Brazil
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| Original language(s) | Portuguese |
| Production | |
| Running time | 40 minutes 25-30 minutes (Wednesday) |
| Production company(s) | Estúdios Globo |
| Release | |
| Original network | Rede Globo |
| Picture format |
PAL-M 480i (SDTV) H.264 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | September 1, 1969 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Jornal Nacional (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒox'naw nasjo'naw]; Portuguese for National News) is a Brazilian Emmy-winningprimetime news program aired by Rede Globo since September 1, 1969. It was the first news program broadcast live by a television network throughout Brazil.
According to Ibope (Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics), in the week of September 28—October 4, 2015 was the second most watched program of the Brazilian television, with an average of 7,198,680 viewers per minute, taking into account a projection of 15 metropolitan areas.
Jornal Nacional premiered on September 1, 1969, hosted by Hilton Gomes and Cid Moreira, the first Rio de Janeiro-produced newscast to be shown nationwide. Months later, the program featured the network's first female weekend presenter Márcia Mendes.
During the 1970s, Jornal Nacional preferred to emphasize international news and sports. The British documentary Beyond Citizen Kane suggests that this happened so that Globo wouldn't have to report the repression of the military dictatorship, which would have provided a substantial part of the network's growth. Despite this the program introduced new innovations (color broadcasts in 1970, live reports in 1977 and videotape footage in 1978).
Through the 1980s, three episodes involving the program caused controversy. In 1982, Jornal Nacional's coverage of the state elections of Rio de Janeiro was accused of participating in a plot to fraud the elections. According to former Rede Globo employee Roméro da Costa Machado, Leonel Brizola, a candidate of the opposition to the military regime, was a politician historically persecuted by Rede Globo owner Roberto Marinho. Two years later, the program was accused of omitting information about the Diretas Já, a popular campaign for the resuming of the direct election for president, near the end of dictatorship. Finally, in 1989, Jornal Nacional was accused of editing a presidential debate between runoff candidates Fernando Collor and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in order to favour Collor. This episode is also extensively debated on Beyond Citizen Kane.
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