TV Cultura

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TV Cultura

Culture TV
Country	Brazil
Broadcast area	São Paulo as TV Cultura, and Brazil, through its affiliate stations and broadcast relay stations and Worldwide
Affiliates	See List of TV Cultura affiliates
Headquarters	São Paulo, Brazil
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i for the SD feed)
Ownership
Owner	Diários Associados (1960–1969) Fundação Padre Anchieta (since 1969)
History
Launched	20 September 1960; 63 years ago (1960-09-20) (original) 15 June 1969; 54 years ago (1969-06-15) (relaunch)
Former names	C2 Cultura (1960-1969) TV2 Cultura (1969-1979) Rádio e Televisão Cultura (RTC) (1979-1987) Rede Cultura (1993-2002)
Links
Website	www.tvcultura.com.br
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	List Channel 14 (Maceió) Channel 16 (Salvador) Channel 17 (subchannels 17.1 and 17.2) (Belo Horizonte) Channel 18 (Campina Grande and Cuiabá) Channel 19 (Boa Vista) Channel 21 (Recife) Channel 24 (São Paulo) Channel 31 (Aracaju and Goiânia) Channel 36 (Curitiba) Channel 41 (Belém) Channel 50 (Porto Alegre) Channel 54 (São Luís)

TV Cultura or simply Cultura, is a free Brazilian public television network headquartered in São Paulo and a part of Father Anchieta Foundation, a non-profit foundation funded by the São Paulo State Government. It focuses on educational and cultural subjects but also has sports as entertainment options.

According to research by the BBC and the British institute Populus, published in 2015, TV Cultura is the second highest quality channel in the world, behind only BBC One.^[1][2]