Roberto Irineu ran TV Globo Joo Roberto, now 46, headed the newspaper Jos Roberto, now 44, the radio stations.
She later told TV Globo, which produces the Brazilian version of the show, that she hasn't registered to be a contestant.
Its TV Globo network--the world's fifth largest in terms of audience--claims slightly more than half of the Brazilian audience but 77% of television ad revenues.
In an interview with CNN affiliate TV Globo, Mario Lobato, the doctor tasked by the health ministry to investigate the case, said the number of deaths could be much higher.
Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, told the Brazilian network TV Globo that today it could already be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.
Equipped with ample political connections and control of the airwaves through his group's powerful TV Globo network, Marinho, now 95, gained a reputation in the 1980s as a kingmaker for selecting one Brazilian presidential candidate and influencing more than one election.
"We are open to all authorities and inspections, " said the statement, obtained by Globo TV.
Investigators have received preliminary information that security guards stopped people from exiting the club, he told Globo TV.
The club's license had expired in August and had not been renewed, a local fire official told Globo TV.
CNN: Brazil nightclub fire: 'Like a war zone' with bodies piled
The club's license had expired in August and had not been renewed, local fire official Moises da Silva Fuchs told Globo TV.
He lives in my old apartment building in Higienopolis, a 1950s art deco building that Antarctic explorers and Globo TV reporters call home.
"The operation has been a a success, this important area was taken without firing a shot, " military police Col Frederico Caldas told Brazil's Globo TV.
An accordionist who had been performing onstage with a band when the blaze broke out was among the dead, drummer Eliel de Lima told Globo TV.
CNN: Fire rips through crowded Brazil nightclub, killing 233
"People started running, " survivor Luana Santos Silva told Globo TV.
Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos were even interviewed live by national broadcaster Globo TV at 0200 in Germany, so that they could be on the network's prime-time news programme back home.
"There was so much smoke and fire, it was complete panic and it took a long time for people to get out, there were so many dead, " survivor Luana Santos Silva told the Globo TV network.
In 2009, a report prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank found that Brazilians receiving the Globo TV -- the country's biggest television network, and a major producer of telenovelas -- signal had a lower birth rates and a greater incidence of divorce than areas which had no signal.
In December the company launched Vrtua, a high-speed residential broadband service available only to Globo Cabo's pay-TV subscribers.
Its listed subsidiary Globo Cabo, Brazil's largest cable TV provider, has laid 15, 000 miles of coaxial cable past almost 5 million homes.
Globo is also forging ahead on broadband Internet access through its listed subsidiary Globo Cabo, Brazil's largest cable-TV provider.
Domestic conglomerates such as Globo, Brazil's most-successful broadcaster, dominate the market and run TV and radio networks, newspapers and pay-TV operations.
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