The on air button was pushed at 8:15pm (Brasília time) by the then president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Edir Macedo, the network's owner.

It is mostly a simulcast of Record News in Brazil, with some local content.

Reality shows/Game shows Two days prior to the launch of Record News, the Vice-President of Organizações Globo, Evandro Guimarães, went to Brasília to meet government officials, including the Communications Minister, Hélio Costa, accusing Rede Record of owning two television networks, Rede Record and Record News, inside the city of São Paulo.

In Brazilian Law, it is illegal to own more than one television station in a city.

[2] When Guimarāes trip to Brasília was revealed in a blog owned by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, Rede Record attacked Rede Globo in an editorial in its national news broadcast, Jornal da Record, accusing Rede Globo of trying to rescue its monopoly on the media and news, and also claiming that Rede Globo was afraid of Record News because Rede Globo, which owns its own news channel Globo News, which is only a payable cable channel, would lose advertising revenue from Globo News to Record News.