It became a partner of Rede Globo in 1987, after a troubled transition process, marked by a long judicial and political dispute initiated by the owners of TV Aratu (channel 4).

[6] In August of the same year, however, it was reported that the Federal Government was considering revoking the concession of the future station due to the adoption of a critical stance towards the regime by former governor Antônio Carlos Magalhães (a relative of part of the company's shareholders), which at first, prejudiced affiliation negotiations with Rede Manchete.

[7] Finally, the license was maintained, and the creation of TV Bahia was officially announced to the market on January 9, 1985, at a dinner held at the Bahiano Tennis Club.

The new TV station in Salvador would be the first partner of Rede Manchete in Bahia, and the event included a speech by Rubens Furtado, then-director general of the Rio de Janeiro network.

In its early days, the station had five editing islands, state-of-the-art VT equipment, a 300-kW transmitter, and the tallest TV antenna in northern and northeastern Brazil.

[9] The station finally signed on for the first time on March 10, 1985, at 6:45 pm, with the transmission of an inauguration ceremony presented by Xuxa Meneghel, then host of the children's program Clube da Criança on Rede Manchete, as well as Governor of Bahia João Durval Carneiro, former governor Antônio Carlos Magalhães and Catholic cardinal Avelar Brandão Vilela.

On January 13, 1987, congressman Luís Viana Neto, of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), one of the shareholders of TV Aratu and member of the political group of then governor Waldir Pires, went to Brasília, along with 19 other deputies, to complain to president José Sarney regarding the situation.

[24] By order of the regional directorate of National Department of Telecommunications (DENTEL), TV Aratu was forced to stop broadcasting Globo's programming on January 26.

Documentation Center (CEDOC) and marketing team employees were fired, in addition to veteran newscaster Anna Valéria, who had been at the station for 31 years.

Eurico Meira da Costa left Rede Bahia after five years, and was replaced by news manager Ana Raquel Copetti, who became mews director.

The local programs with the highest ratings shown by TV Bahia were the local newscasts Jornal da Manhã and Bahia Meio Dia, while on the national program the highlights were the rerun of O Rei do Gado on Vale a Pena Ver de Novo and the seven o'clock soap opera Vai na Fé, respectively.

[51] On Mosaico Baiano, presented by Luana Souza and Pablo Vasconcelos, curiosities, clips, documentaries, special series, and film reviews, among other features, are shown.

The recording of a scene from the soap opera Vai na Fé with Ivete and the character Lui Lorenzo, played by actor José Loreto, was also broadcast live on the station.

In 1997, the Football Association of Bahia signed a contract to broadcast the Campeonato Baiano with SporTV, Globosat's sports pay TV channel.

[89] On March 2, 2022, it was announced that TV Bahia, as well as pay-TV channels and streaming platforms of Grupo Globo, would broadcast matches of Vitória in the Brazilian Championship's C series.

[92] A new program entered the station's schedule three months later: Bahia Debate, hosted by the then Rede Manchete journalist Ney Gonçalves Dias.

[94] On January 27, 1989, a plane carrying a news team from TV Bahia, composed of reporter Anna Valéria, cameraman Robson Barros, and assistant Alberto Luciano Valente, crashed shortly after takeoff at the Bom Jesus da Lapa Airport, colliding with an abandoned house and a umbu tree, and caught fire.

[102] Jornal da Manhã and BATV 1ª Edição readopted the Bahia Agora name from 1993 to July 1995,[103][104] when the title began to be used for a feature magazine hosted by Anna Valéria.

On May 21, 1993, reporter Robson do Val and cameraman Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira were covering Nilo's testimony at the Federal Police headquarters in Salvador.

[105] As Nilo was entering the PF headquarters, his lawyer, the former Bahia justice secretary Marcelo Duarte, pushed Carlos Eduardo, who unbalanced and fell down a ladder with the camera.

[106] Also in the same day, while leaving the PF headquarters, Nilo Coelho ran over photographer Marcelo Tinoco, of Grupo TV Bahia-ownered newspaper Correio da Bahia.

[106] On June 30, 1993, Nilo Coelho went to the 1st Police Station of Salvador to testify about the run over, and on that occasion three of Nilo's supporters - among them the mayor of Bom Jesus da Lapa Artur Maia and state deputy Calmito Fernandes - assaulted with kicks a TV Bahia crew, this time composed of Casemiro Neto, a cameraman and his assistant.

[109] In 2001, news director Carlos Libório denied that TV Bahia had treated the manager unfairly, mentioning occasions when she received space for clarifications at the station.

According to Ângela Bacellar Batista, judge of the 18th Electoral Zone, there was no breach of equality before the law, as Mário Kertész, who was running for the same position, was also interviewed for the same report.

[124] "The simple fact that the TV station is owned by the candidate's family does not imply an offense to the principle of isonomy and, in this case, the report is included within the freedom of the press, essential to the democratic rule of law, whose dissemination of the manifestation of those present at the ceremony, purpose of the report, cannot be confused with the prohibition of article 45 of Law 9,504/97".During the carnival of 2014, TV Bahia again debuted a helicopter for news coverage, debuting RedeCop.

[125] The aircraft provided services to the station until June 30, 2016, when TV Bahia's contract with the São Paulo-based company Time News, responsible for the equipment, was terminated.

[127] As a result of increased competition from RecordTV Itapoan during the exhibition of early afternoon program Balanço Geral BA,[128] several changes were made.

News director Appel retired and was replaced by Eurico Meira da Costa, who had held the same post at NSC TV, the Globo affiliate in Santa Catarina.

[139] Her microphone was damaged by the municipality's secretary of works, Antonio Charbel,[140] and she was also the victim of an attempted rear naked choke hold by one of the security guards, in addition to having a fanny pack stolen.

The station did the local generation of the final match of the Copa do Brasil that year, narrated by Thiago Mastroianni, as well as live entries from the station's master control with reporter Giana Mattiazzi, who showed the signal being interrupted at 11:59 pm, after the end of the match, and began to broadcast a notice from the a notice from the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (Brazil) (MCTIC) and ANATEL about the switch-off.