[1] After the broadcast of a friendly match between the Brazilian and English football teams as a preview, on May 13, 1959, which took place at the Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, TV Continental in Rio de Janeiro was inaugurated at 7 pm on June 30, in a ceremony that was attended by the then President of the Republic Juscelino Kubitschek.

[2] Six months after its launch, Continental was the first TV station in the country to use videotape, through a demonstration at the Copacabana Palace hotel presented by Carlos Pallut, its director of journalism, and Riva Blanche, directed by Haroldo Costa.

[2] At the beginning of the 1970s, the station was evicted from its space and moved to a property in the Vila Isabel neighborhood,[1] later generating its signal directly from an external truck in front of the Grajaú Tênis Clube.

[6] On February 22, 1972, then president Emílio Garrastazu Médici signed a decree revoking Continental's concession following a suggestion from the National Telecommunications Council (CONTEL), which monitored the channel's situation and claimed that, in addition to being off the air, it had requested bankruptcy granted by the Court.

[4] Subsequently, Continental's transmitter, tower and antenna were put up for auction and purchased by businessman and television presenter Silvio Santos to open his first broadcaster, TVS, in Rio de Janeiro in 1976.