1950s RADIO STATIONS - 1962 - 1963 -1970s

a cyclist ponder his best move out of such a confusing traffic... 

trams standing on Rua Xavier de Toledo during the Christmas season... 

Site of Radio Cultura de São Paulo aka Palácio do Radio on Avenida São João. Radio Cultura reigned supreme in the 1940s & 1950s. 

Revista do Radio no.58 publishes the names of Artistic Directors of 10 different São Paulo radio stations in 1950. Journalist Egas Muniz was the boss at Radio América; Paulo Machado de Carvalho Filho was # 1 at Radio Panamericana, Raul Duarte at the helm of Radio Record and radio-drama actor Waldemar Ciglioni the director of Radio São Paulo. 

13 September 1958 - Revista do Radio publishes TV Paulista, Channel 5 weekly grid. 'Praça da Alegria' on Mondays; Charles Dicken's 'David Copperfield' novela on Thursday; Lana Bittencourt and talk-show sensation Silveira Sampaio on Friday; 

São Paulo radio stations circa 1963

620    Radio Panamericana  (Emissoras Unidas)

640    Radio Nove de Julho (owned by the Catholic Church)

670    Radio Excelsior (Organização Victor Costa)

700    Radio Eldorado (owned by newspaper 'O Estado de S.Paulo)

780    Radio Marconi

840    Radio Bandeirantes 

890    Radio Gazeta (owned by newspaper 'A Gazeta')

960    Radio Difusora  (Emissoras Associadas)

1.000   Radio Record (Emissoras Unidas)

1.040   Radio Tupi (Emissoras Associadas)

1.100   Radio Nacional Paulista (Organização Victor Costa)

1.200   Radio Piratininga

1.300   Radio São Paulo (Emissoras Unidas)

1.380   Radio Industrial Paulista

1.410   Radio America

Radio Cultura (Emissoras Associadas)

Radio Cometa ('Velho realejo' com Salomão Junior) 

Radio Santo Amaro

'Melodias' #153, June 1970, with news about Radio Tupi's New Scheme (Um Novo Esquema).

QUEEN ELIZABETH II visits Sao Paulo - 8 November 1968.

there's a dearth of Queen Elizabeth's photographs taken during her 1968 visit to São Paulo... this is the only one I could get hold of... which shows her waving to the public when she arrives to open MASP - Art Museum of Sao Paulo on 8 November 1968.

N.B.: The dearth of photos of ERII's São Paulo visit suddenly became a flood due to Her Majesty's death on 8 September 2022. All of a sudden all of those Her Majesty's hidden photos saw the day light in many a blog and site in the Internet. 

a different angle from the same spot... MASP at Avenida Paulista.

ERII & São Paulo mayor Faria Lima. 

Queen Elizabeth II motorcade goes to town through Avenida 9 de Julho, on 6 November 1968.

Queen's motorcade enter Viaducto do Chá... 

Queen Elizabeth II on top of the world... top of Edificio Italia, São Paulo's highest building with São Paulo's mayor Brigadier Faria Lima and assorted socialites. 

Prince Philip, the Queen, Mrs. Abreu Sodré & her husband, not-elected but appointed by the military dictatorship governor of S.Paulo in that period. 

The Royal couple at Ipiranga's Independence Monument on 6 November 1968. 

On top of Edifício Itália... see Rua da Consolação in the background...

Radio Bandeirantes - March 1963

Radio Bandeirantes was the most popular radio station in São Paulo in the first half of the 1960s. Bandeirantes supremacy though was dented by Helio Ribeiro's complete make-over of Radio Tupi in late 1964. So we could safely say Bandeirantes ruled the waves for half a decade. 

Here's a whole-page advertising on 24 November 1963, Sunday at 'O Estado de S.Paulo' in which one can see what it took for Radio Bandeirantes to be the Number One station in the city. 

09:00 - Omar Cardoso - A dança das horas

09:30 - Ricardo Macedo - Discomentando 

10:00 - Fernando Solera - Pick up do Pica Pau

12:00 - Fernando Solera - Mil discos é o limit 

13:00 - Enzo de Almeida Passos - Telefone pedindo bis 

14:00 - Fausto Canova - É disco que eu gosto 

14:30 - Enzo de Almeida Passos- Atendendo o ouvinte 

15:00 - Rubens Greiffo - Qual é a música? 

16:00 - Enzo de Almeida Passos - Vitrola mágica 

17:00 - Vicente Leporace - Sem discussão 

18:00 - Sergio Galvão - Os brotos comandam 

18:30 - Fausto Canova - Sambalanço 

Radio Bandeirantes used to register their programme titles as trade-marks even when their names referred to a particular DJ as Walter Silva who had been known as Pica Pau all his life due to his sporting a big nose. Walter devised a title for his show as 'Pick up do Pica Pau' (Woodpecker's pick-up) but wasn't cunning enough to beat the radio station in its own game. When Walter Silva left the broadcaster due to a salary dispute Radio Bandeirantes kept the name of HIS show. 

The same happened to DJ Henrique Lobo who devised a name for his programme - 'É disco que eu gosto' - that was registered surreptitiously by Bandeirantes as its own trade mark. 

singer João Dias with Enzo de Almeida Passos, the man of the hour at Radio Bandeirantes.