SBT (2013, 2015-present)

The Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT; Brazilian Portuguese; Brazilian Television System) is a Brazilian television network founded in August 19, 1981 by the businessman and television personality Silvio Santos. However, the network started to go downhill in 2013 and since 2015 for making bad decisions in their programming.

Why It Sucks Now

 * 1) Due to the incompetence of those responsible for SBT, mainly Silvio Santos, the chance of recovering the vice-leadership completely that the channel achieved with Carrossel (2012) was unfortunately buried for good, because of unnecessary changes in the channel's programming, for example Casos de Família ONLY lasted one night in its new airtime, which harmed a lot in that year of 2013.
 * 2) After Carrossel ended its original airing, the channel started to rerun the soap opera, after the cancellation of Clube do Carrossel, that only lasted a few weeks, due to low ratings. This was just the beginning of the practices of the channel to harm the soap opera to make it a cash cow franchise with the aforementioned block based in the soap opera, an animated series that was announced in the same year, that only premiered in 2016 and lasted one season, two movies and the Patrulha Salvadora series. Besides that, a depressing promo was made about changing the first rerun of Carrossel with the return of Aqui Agora, which got replaced instead with SBT Notícias, which also had very low ratings and got cancelled after 40 programs.
 * 3) Many of their programs nowadays went downhill (Bom Dia & Cia in 2010-2022 and Sábado Animado in 2016-2020 and again since 2022) or are bad (Triturando, Programa da Maisa, Notícias Impressionantes).
 * 4) SBT's founder Silvio Santos was involved in various controversies in the recent years, which gave him a bad reputation:
 * 5) *In his program, Programa Silvio Santos in 2016, he asked to a young girl called Deborah, if she prefers sex, money or power. This question was really inappropriate for a family program like Programa Silvio Santos.
 * 6) *In 2019, he didn't accepted the victory of a black woman called Jennyfer Oliver in a competition called Who do you take? in his program, which resulted he being accused of racism.
 * 7) **Speaking of racism, in the 2014 Teleton, he did a racist comment about the hair of actress Julia Oliver, Pata of Chiquititas (2013).
 * 8) *He also was accused of sizeism, because he told a joke about the weight of Preta Gil in his program in 2018. This is not the first time, in the 2016 Teleton, he made a sizeist and racist comment to a black woman.
 * 9) *In the 2018 Teleton, he harassed Claudia Leitte, in front of the children who were on the telethon.
 * 10) *Again in 2019, in his program, in The Game of the Points, he touched Lívia Andrade's breast. To make worse, she approved this.
 * 11) *The program's Children's Miss Contest got controversy by the Brazilian Justice in October 2019, for having young girls between seven and eight years participating in the contest.
 * 12) *Because of this controversies, not only gave him a bad reputation nowadays, also turned him a bad person who harass people, making inappropriate comments and being accused of bad things in his own network.
 * 13) They used to like to excessively air El Chavo del Ocho like a slapping programming hole until 2020 (due to the impasses of the series' copyright in Mexico, between Televisa and Grupo Chespirito), but it got very irritating quickly, mostly because they aired the same episodes SBT has, yet they were very late not premiering the other episodes never aired on SBT, but Multishow premiered them in 2018.
 * 14) Their children's programming nowadays is not good either, with Bom Dia & Cia that got many times worse in 2015-2022 being the worst offender, mostly because of Silvia Abravanel doing wrong things in the block.
 * 15) In 2016, the series night blocks, Tele Seriados and Ataque de Risos were permanently cancelled and was replaced by SBT Notícias, this was one of the worst decisions made by SBT in their programming in recent years ever.
 * 16) Since 2017, they air reruns of Televisa's soap operas already aired previously and a only new soap opera on the network in the afternoons, the fault goes to one of the network's directors called Murilo, who is one of the laziest SBT's directors in the network ever.
 * 17) Many of the people who used to work on SBT were fired (Lívia Andrade, Rachel Sherazade) or left in the network for good (Maisa Silva).
 * 18) Is infamous for changing their programming constantly for stupid reasons or without prior notice.
 * 19) The channel has canceled news programs in favor of president Jair Bolsonaro, who is considered a president as terrible (if not worse) than Donald Trump, as he has been known for accelerating destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Silvio Santos and Ratinho have even shown support to the president to the point of inviting him to appear on their programs.
 * 20) They wasted potential in the Disney catalog when they returned to partner in 2015 after a decade that SBT had lost their contract with Disney. They developed the Mundo Disney block, which had a transmission of shows (mostly derived from Disney Junior) inferior to the shows presented in the Disney blocks that SBT had during the late 90s and early 2000s, like Disney Club. Around 2018, when the block was improving SBT chose not to renew the contract and cancel their partnership with Disney permanently.
 * 21) On the other hand, while wasting the potential to broadcast great films, series and cartoons from major studios like Disney, Warner and Paramount, the channel showed an exaggerated obsession with promoting Mattel's films and animations at a point where it even used child actors of their telenovelas to advertise Mattel toys and their films. This even included the infamous new seasons of Thomas & Friends, as well as the fact that the channel airs a Barbie movie during the nightly block of films that was supposed to broadcast big box office movies.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) There are still some good programs that manage to attract viewers like Roda a Roda, Domingo Legal, Programa Raul Gil, Eliana and Programa do Ratinho as examples. Their transmission of the Conmebol Libertadores soccer games are good too.
 * 2) Their emotional tribute to the late Gugu Liberato in late 2019, when he unfortunately died.
 * 3) Some of their employees like Celso Portiolli, Eliana, Luís Ricardo and Raul Gil are good people and kind to their fans, mainly Celso, which did nice things to the people in his program Domingo Legal.
 * 4) The channel's voice-over Bem-Te-Vi is still good doing the voice-over of SBT.