Silvio Santos

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Silvio Santos (2019)
Silvio Santos in the Palácio do Planalto .

Silvio Santos (born December 12, 1930 in Rio de Janeiro ; actually Senor Abravanel ) is a Brazilian presenter and media entrepreneur and owner of the SBT network .

origin

Senor Abravanel, who took on the stage name Silvio Santos, comes from Sephardic Jews. With the Alhambra Edict , the family left Castile for Greece in 1492 , so that Santos is a descendant of Greek-Turkish immigrants.

Life

In Brazil's first television network, Rede Tupi , Santos designed its own program on Channel 4 in São Paulo in the 1960s . Through ties to the military government and with the help of his friend Manoel de Nóbrega, he acquired the license in 1976 for his own TV station, Rio de Janeiro's channel 11 , called TV Studios (TVS), from which his program Silvio Santos was broadcast on Sundays .

With the end of Assis Chateaubriand's speech Tupi in 1980, Santos bought Canal 4, Porto Alegres Canal 5 and Beléms Canal 5 from the bankruptcy estate and formed SBT . Numerous in-house productions as well as Mexican soap operas , telenovelas and entertainment programs by Televisa brought SBT to second place in the popularity of the Brazilian stations.

In a reorganization in the late 1990s, Santos invested US $ 170 million. Today his TV network also delivers Time Warner productions and game shows . Santos produces a number of international TV shows for Brazil such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , Wheel of Fortune or Deal or No Deal . Silvio Santos discovered numerous talents in Brazilian television.

Silvio Santos comes from the simplest of backgrounds and has created a large number of companies thanks to his talent for speaking and his entrepreneurial spirit. As an individual, he is the largest taxpayer in Brazil. Despite his old age, he is in front of the camera almost every day. His shows, which are almost always about money, are extremely popular. The Grupo Silvio Santos (GSS) currently includes 32 companies, including banks, insurance companies, hotels and cosmetics companies with a turnover of 1.5 billion US $ (1997).

Santo's daughter Patricia Abravanel (* 1977) was kidnapped in São Paulo in 2001. The family paid a ransom of US $ 200,000.

Web links

Commons : Silvio Santos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ^ South American Business Information Date: Friday, July 19, 2002
  2. ↑ AP Online 08-28-2001, Silvio Santos' Daughter Released
personal data
SURNAME Santos, Silvio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abravanel, Senor (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian media entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil