TV Piratini was a terrestrial television station licensed to Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The first experiments conducted by Chateaubriand on April 23, 1955, were held in a closed circuit system, fed to fifty television sets.
[1] In 1958, during a radio variety show (Quando os galãs se encontram) on Rádio Farroupilha, Assis Cheateaubriand announced that TV Piratini was set to begin operations in December 1959.
[4] In September 1959, sixteen radio staff received their television training in Rio de Janeiro, situation similar to another station that had yet to launch, TV Itapoan[3] The station shut down on at 11:55am on July 18, 1980.
At the time the transmitters were being switched off, the station was airing a cartoon from Hanna-Barbera, when a Volkswagen car arrived with three technicians granted the order of turning off.