It is owned by Grupo Record, alongside Rádio Guaíba and the newspaper Correio do Povo with its studios being located in Santa Tereza, and its transmitter is at the top of Morro da Polícia.
[1] Without any type of affiliation with other national networks,[2] TV Guaíba stood out in regional programs focusing on journalism, sport, cuisine, variety and culture.
Guaíba Ao Vivo took advantage of the team of communicators from Rádio Guaíba and the newspaper Correio do Povo, such as Rogério Mendelski, Adroaldo Streck, João Carlos Belmonte, Edegar Schmidt, Sérgio Jockymann, Carrion Júnior, as well as Ivette Brandalise, José Fontela, Sérgio Schueller, Gustavo Motta and Paulo Nilson.
Actress Suzana Saldanha presented the first section of the program, with interviews and subjects of feminine or cultural interest, but lost her job when the network entered its second phase, on March 31, 1981.
Tânia Carvalho was one of the best-known names on television in Rio Grande do Sul, since she returned from São Paulo, where she had been part of the group around filmmaker Glauber Rocha, with her husband and father of her son Fabiano, actor Geraldo Del Rey.
On her debut in Guaíba, she wore a green coat that covered her pregnant belly with her second child with businessman Felício dos Santos, Diogo, who would be born weeks later.
Children who sent coupons cut out from Correio do Povo or Folha da Tarde could be invited to the program's audience and compete live for the famous quindins given by Remendão.
TV Guaíba was also marked by horse racing broadcasts during commercial breaks, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, probably thanks to the fact that the owner, Breno Caldas, owns a stud farm and is an avid investor in the sport.
When Companhia Jornalística Caldas Júnior went bankrupt, journalist and playwright Sérgio Jockymann took the reins of the broadcaster for several months, before businessman Renato Bastos Ribeiro bought the company.
Some of the highlights of TV Guaíba's local programming, after its purchase by the Ribeiro family, were the journalist Flávio Alcaraz Gomes with his program Guerrilheiros da Notícia, which aired daily from 7pm to 8:15pm; Clovis Duarte with Câmera 2, which went on air at 10:30 pm; the doctor and journalist Abraão Winogron with the weekly Medicina e Saúde; José Silvas with Atividade, daily at noon; Marlei Soares with Palavra de Mulher, which was presented during the week from 4:25 pm, Luiz Carlos Reche with Cadeira Cativa and João Bosco Vaz with Encontro com o Esporte, shown on Saturdays; the traditionalist musical Querência, always broadcast from a different municipality in the state, presented by Jair Silva; The Arco-Íris Project was a pioneering program on ecological issues.
RBS TV tried to acquire part of the rights, proposing the payment of 500 thousand reais, but Aluizio Ribeiro, the broadcaster's commercial director, ended up refusing.
The team included narrator Paulo Cesar Carvalho, commentators Rogério Amaral and Cláudio Duarte and reporters Denis Luciano and Rodrigo Koch, the latter, on the radio, were sports presenters and on-call staff.
[15] With the change of control of TV Guaíba, an investment plan was drawn up that involved the installation of state-of-the-art equipment, construction of a modern newsroom and the hiring of professionals specialized in the technical, commercial and journalistic areas of the other competitors.
Minutes before midnight on July 1, the station aired its traditional sign-on and sign-off video of with images of Rio Grande do Sul to the sound of an instrumental version of "Gauchinha Bem Querer", composed by Tito Madi.