The first was to change the route for sending the tapes, so that they no longer passed through affiliates in the Northeast region before arriving in Belém, which began to receive them directly from Rio de Janeiro, shortening the delay in showing the programs in relation to the competitor.
At the time, TV Liberal had as its director and partner the journalist Ossian Brito, who became a fundamental character not only in the bidding that gave rise to the broadcaster's concession but also in the relationships that motivated the change of affiliation, since he was the brother of technical engineer at Rede Globo, Colonel Wilson de Souza Brito, and brother-in-law of General Gustavo Moraes Rego Reis, President Geisel's trusted man, later becoming his military chief of staff.
The loss of Globo hurt the broadcaster, which saw its audience ratings suddenly drop to third place, as well as its revenue and advertisers, who fled to the competition, leading to layoffs, delays in the payroll of its employees and threats of strike.
At this time, under the administration of Alberto Bendahan and Irapuã Salles, programs were produced with names that became famous on local television, such as Thompson Mota, Eloy Santos, Joaquim Antunes and Pierre Beltrand.
With the change of affiliation, TV Guajará's financial situation became more complicated once again, as Record was still seeking to establish itself in the market and its initial programming was not attractive to advertisers.
Furthermore, the Castro family had taken out loans to finance the purchase of new equipment and, due to the monetary crisis faced by Brazil, which had changed currency twice since 1986, the debts increased exponentially with each devaluation.
Both IEQ and the Assembly of God rented time slots on TV Guajará since the 1980s, presenting respectively the programs Prece Poderosa and Boas Novas no Lar on the network's mornings.
[7] On March 10, pastor Firmino Gouveia and Lopo de Castro Júnior met to close the agreement to purchase TV Guajará, and it was agreed that the Assembly of God should pay 24 installments of 125 thousand dollars per month to complete the transaction.
[7] On March 15, the same day that Rede Boas Novas completed two years on the air, TV Guajará became the network's owned-and-operated station, changing its name to RBN Belém.
The new management of the station replaced all programs produced until then for productions aimed at the evangelical public, sometimes broadcast in a chain with RBN Manaus, and donated the collection of images and various historical equipment from the then TV Guajará to the Museu da Imagem e do Som do Pará.
With the help of his followers, the church continued to pay the monthly fee of 40 thousand reais to maintain its satellite signal, the last installments of the purchase of the broadcaster (paid in March 1998), and modernized all its equipment, which had already were completely obsolete.
[9] In October of the same year, RBN Belém left its old studios on Avenida Governador José Malcher and moved to the headquarters of the Theological Seminary of the Assembly of God, in the Marco neighborhood, where it started to operate together with Rádio Transpaz.