Overview
- Hours after the singer posted a video asking the network not to air his program, SBT said it will not broadcast the already recorded special scheduled for December 17.
- Zezé Di Camargo criticized the channel’s direction under Silvio Santos’s daughters and said the station was “prostituting” itself after hosting authorities at the SBT News launch.
- The inauguration event at SBT headquarters featured President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, First Lady Janja, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, STF ministers and other officials, which SBT leaders cited as institutional pluralism.
- In a public letter, SBT president Daniela Abravanel Beyruti defended the project, pledging journalism that is impartial, nonpartisan and guided by principles attributed to Silvio Santos.
- First Lady Janja condemned the singer’s remarks as machismo and misogyny, while Senator Flávio Bolsonaro echoed his criticism, calling the network’s choices a disappointment.