TV Salvador

TV Bahia (channel 11) is a television station in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo. Owned by Rede Bahia, TV Bahia is the principal station of Rede Bahia de Televisão, a statewide television network composed of another five owned-and-operated stations. TV Bahia's studios and transmitter are located on Prof. Aristídes Novis Street in the Federação district, in Salvador. Its terrestrial signal, through the station in Salvador and translators, reaches 133 cities in the state. Currently, besides being the leader in Salvador, it has the third largest ratings among Globo's stations in Brazil. The station signed on the air officialy on March 10, 1985, 10 months after receiving its license from the federal government, making it the fourth-oldest television station in Bahia. It was inaugurated as a Rede Manchete affiliate, having at the time the most modern equipment among Bahia's television stations and the highest transmission tower in the Northern and Northeast regions of Brazil. Its local programming initially featured the sports program Manchete Esportiva Bahia, hosted by Ivan Pedro, and the newscast Bahia em Manchete, which had Paulo Gil as anchor. It became a partner of Rede Globo in 1987, after a troubled transition process, marked by a long judicial and political dispute initiated by the owners of TV Aratu (channel 4). With the Globo affiliation, it made its first big expansion of local programming, premiering two editions of the now-traditional newscast BATV and Jornal da Manhã, its first morning newscast. The affiliation with the Rio de Janeiro network gave the station the ratings leadeship in the state. It was a pioneer among the Globo affiliates in the production of telenovelas, producing Danada de Sabida, inspired by the work of João Ubaldo Ribeiro, 1997. TV Bahia was also the first to use a helicopter for news coverage in the state, premiering in February 1999 the BahiaCop. On December 1, 2008, on the first anniversary of digital terrestrial television in Brazil, it became the first television station in Brazil's Northern and Northeast regions to start broadcasting its programming in this format, making Salvador the seventh city in Brazil to receive digital television. Due to the shareholding participation of members of the Magalhães family (which has members participating in the political class, such as former senator Antônio Carlos Magalhães) in Rede Bahia, a conglomerate of which TV Bahia is part, the station's news department has been target of various controversies involving politicians in part of its history. During her mandate, Salvador mayor Lídice da Mata blamed TV Bahia for the unpopularity of her administration, accusing the coverage of the problems of the capital's administration of being made with the intention of harming her and thus, favoring her opponents. During the Salvador elections in 2012, candidate Nelson Pelegrino filed a lawsuit against TV Bahia due to the appearance of candidate ACM Neto in a report. The workers campaign's suit was denied by the Electoral Court.

Center for Studies and Social Action (CEAS) was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1967 and works to diminish poverty and social exclusion] in the Northeast Region, Brazil. It lends its assistance to urban and rural groups and produces a journal.

Band Bahia (channel 4) is a Rede Bandeirantes-owned-and-operated station licensed to the city of Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia. The station also serves as a regional flagship for the Northeast Region on special broadcasts. The station also extends its coverage beyong Bahia, with a relay station in Aracaju, Sergipe, which operates commercially as Band Aracaju.

Colégio 2 de Julho, or C2J, is a private school located in Salvador, Brazil. Its courses go from pre-school to highschool, which in the Brazilian educational system is usually identified with ages from 4 to 17. Colégio 2 de Julho was founded in 1927 as the Escola Americana or American School; in 1938, its name was finally changed to 2 de Julho. The school is named after the independence date of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

Antonio Vieira College is a private Catholic primary and secondary school located in Salvador, Brazil. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1911, the school has about 5,000 students enrolled in grades one through eleven, and also gives night classes for youth and adults.

Graça is a neighborhood located in the southern zone of Salvador, Bahia. It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Salvador.The Church and Monastery of Our Lady of Grace is located in Graça.

TV Aratu is a Brazilian television station based in Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia. It operates on channel 4 (25 UHF digital), and is affiliated with SBT . It belongs to Grupo Aratu, a media conglomerate owned by businessman Silvio Roberto Coelho, and which also includes Rádio Cultura de Guanambi, the Aratu On website, the outdoor media companies Ei! e Brasília and Chaves Outdoor. It is the second oldest television station in Bahia, after the then TV Itapoan (channel 5, founded in 1960), and the third most watched in Salvador and the metropolitan region.

The Federal University of Bahia (Portuguese: Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA) is a public university located mainly in the city of Salvador. It is the largest university in the state of Bahia and one of Brazil's most prestigious educational institutions. Students can study there without paying tuition fees, as it is a public university. To join the university they must pass an annual examination, known as the "ENEM" (National High School Exam).

The Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia (IFBA) (Bahia Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology) is an institution that offers high and professional educations by having a pluricurricular form. It is a multicampi institution, especialized in offering professional and technological education in different areas of knowledge (biologics/human sciences/exact sciences). The Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia (IFBA) (Bahia Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology) is a federal institution, public, directly vinculated to the Ministry of Education of Brazil.

TV Bahia (channel 10) is a television station in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, affiliated with TV Brasil. The station is maintained by the Bahia Educational Radio Broadcasting Institute (IRDEB), a government body of the State of Bahia that is also responsible for radio station Educadora FM.

The Museu Rodin Bahia was a museum devoted to the works of Auguste Rodin, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. In 2023, the museum was replaced by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahia.

Zoogodô Bogum Malê Rundó, also known as the Terreiro do Bogum, is a Candomblé terreiro in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It is located high in the Engenho Velho da Federação, or simply Federação neighborhood of Salvador on Ladeira do Bogum, a narrow street, formerly known as Ladeira Manoel do Bonfim. It is an area long associated with residents of Kingdom of Dahomey descent. The terreiro covers 1,000 square metres (11,000 sq ft), of which 600 square metres (6,500 sq ft) is used for and includes religious structures and open spaces.The terreiro is associated with the Jejé branch of the religion; it is both the first and last remaining Jejé terreiro in the region. It differs from other Candomblé terreiros of the Salvador region in its use of the Ewe language of present-day Benin, in contrast to the widespread use of Yoruba in other temples. The temple uses the term vodun for its deities in place of the more common orixás; it is one of its numerous similarities to Haitian Vodou. The Bogum community closely related to Jejé temples in Cachoeira, a small city in the Recôncavo Baiano in the interior of Bahia. The Zoogodô Bogum Malê Seja Undé (Roça do Ventura) terreiro in Cachoeira shares a lineage with Zoogodô Bogum Malê Rundó.