In the same year, the future broadcaster acquired an old refrigerated warehouse located at Rua General Padilha, 134, in São Cristóvão, where the first studios for channel 11 were set up.
The latter's name was given in honor of the comedian, who died on 17 March 1976, during preparations for the inauguration of TVS, and would be its future director, causing Silvio to hand over the position to Luciano Callegari.
In 1979, TVS purchased the old Cine Fluminense, in front of Campo de São Cristóvão, which, after a series of renovations, was adapted for television and opened in 1982, also serving to house TV Record.
In September 1980, Silvio Santos and Adolpho Bloch participated in the competition opened on 23 July for the concessions of Rede Tupi and TV Excelsior in São Paulo.
Only from 1980 onwards, with an expansion of programming, greater investments began to be made in journalism, with the creation of Jornal da Manhã, shown at 8am.
This changed on 1 December 1999, when in an effort to reactivate journalism on its own stations, the news program SBT Rio, presented by Renata Affonso, and the weekly Câmera em Ação, now off the air, debuted.
The changes had no effect, and in March 2009, Castilho was replaced by Luiz Bacci, while SBT Rio assumed a characteristic of strong popular appeal, as did Balanço Geral.
[6] On 2 March 2015, the program stopped being a block on SBT Rio, starting to air at 12:30 pm, and only with Garotinho, Gérson and Gilson Ricardo.
On 29 June 2018, the SBT news program Rio Manhã aired for the last time, which was canceled following a decision by the head office in São Paulo to allow the showing of Primeiro Impacto.
[11] On 20 September 2021, the station's local news programs began to be produced from its new headquarters in the Charles de Gaulle Business Center.
Attractions such as Programa Carlos Imperial, the children's program Bozo, the popular O Povo na TV and Sessão Premiada also appeared.
Many of these programs were also shown in São Paulo through TV Record, a sister company of TVS and head of the Rede de Emissoras Independentes.