Peruvian National Television or National Television of Peru (TV Perú) is a non-profit public broadcasting

Public broadcasting

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 television network

Television network

A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...

 service with 22 member TV stations in Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

. In Lima

Lima

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

, the VHF frequency is Channel 7 and its DTV

Digital television

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 frequency is channel 16.

Story

The station was founded on January 17, 1958 with the aid of UNESCO

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

 in a joint venture

Joint venture

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 production with Peruvian Government, under the name Radio y Televisión Peruana (RTP). Dr.

Doctor (title)

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 Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Peru's late 1950s minister of education held the innaguration ceremony. The station was opened at the same day and it is the first television station in Peru. The station started the process moving from monochrome

Monochrome

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 broadcasts to color in 1974. Finally in 1978 RTP officially launched broadcasts in color.

In the 1980s the station started satellite

Satellite

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 transmissions across Peru. In 1986, during Alan García's government, the TV station was given the popular name TV-Perú Canal 7 (but the legal name remained RTP). The TNP name was adopted in the mid-1990s during Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori Fujimori served as President of Peru from 28 July 1990 to 17 November 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with the creation of Fujimorism, uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability, though his methods have drawn charges of...

's regime. In 2006 the station was renamed again to TV Perú.

Nowadays TV Perú is better known for its regular programming devoted to spread Peruvian culture, by showing documentaries such as Reportaje al Perú and Costumbres. Sometime during the mid 2000s aired reruns of korean drama

Korean drama

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s dubbed into spanish such as All About Eve

All About Eve (Korean TV series)

All About Eve or 이브의 모든것 in Korean is a South Korean television drama which was aired in 2000 on MBC that focused on two beautiful, young TV news reporters competing for the top position at the network they work for.-Plot:Sun Mi is a lovely college student who lives with her middle class widowed...

, A wish upon star among others.

On March 30, 2010, TV Perú launched its high-definition

High-definition television

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 signal (using ISDB-TB

ISDB

Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting is a Japanese standard for digital television and digital radio used by the country's radio and television stations. ISDB replaced the previously used MUSE "Hi-vision" analogue HDTV system...

) with the help of the government of Japan

Japan

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 who donated the proper equipment.

TV Perú's headquarters are in Lima, Peru.