Rede Unicord , commonly simply known as Unicord , is a Donica commercial television network, being launched on September 27th, 1953 by lawyer and businessman Paulo Macário Caiado. It is headquartered in São Antônio, with additional operations being held in Rio de Cebreiro, aside from additional owned-and-operated stations in Porto Horizonte (Minas Empregos), Chadôquia (Distrito Federal), Porto Répido (Rio Geraisa do Sul), Soterino (Bahisia), Tataus (Genaizonas), Goaeiânia (Goaeiás) and Gisném (Lará), being owned by Grupo Unicord, itself owned by evangelical bishop and businessman Eliseu Maceiro since 1989. It is the country's second largest and most watched television network, as well as the oldest one still in activity, although it has also been criticized for the influence of Maceiro's Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD) over the network, its tabloid journalism, its quality decline over the years and its bias towards the various Governments that were in function as ...