Grupo Abril is the second largest Brazilian media conglomerate with its headquarters in São Paulo. The group is the holding company of Editora Abril, who publishes the weekly newsmagazine Veja.
The Group has a partnership with Brazilian TV-channel HBO Brasil, Cinemax, Sony Entertainment Television, Warner Channel), ESPN Brasil, Bravo Brasil, Eurochannel, Country Music Television and MTV Brasil (a joint venture with the American conglomerate Viacom), but currently holds only the MTV Brazil, the Fiz and the Ideal. Moreover, the group was the pioneer in Pay television in Brazil, launching the TVA, and now also sells wide-band access to the Internet by Ajato. It was also the first company to launch a digital TV service via satellite, TVA Digisat, which was replaced by DIRECTV later.
The group startet with Editora Abril in 1950, founded by Victor Civita. Today the group is chaired by his son Roberto Civita.
On 11 October 2007, Grupo Abril acquired Fernando Chinaglia Distribuidora, which is now the largest distributor of publications in Latin America.
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