Televen (a contraction of Televisión Venezolana and legally known as Corporación Televen C.A.) is a Venezuelan national television network headquartered on the Caracas neighborhood of Horizonte. For this reason it is also called 'Canal de Horizonte'. Televen was inaugurated on July 10, 1988, by Omar Camero Zamora and T Radioven, S.A. As an alternative for the two-leading-private television channels, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) and Venevision, Televen distanced itself from this trend and made a different oriented programming in some cases the middle classes who do not usually watch TV and it was open and being composed of talk shows, sports, movies, a full range of series, mainly American, and Brazilian, Colombian, Mexican, and U.S. Hispanic telenovelas, and in the 1990s, anime.
History
On February 12, 1988, the test signal of Televen began on channel 10 in Caracas and transmitted music videos.
On July 3, 1988, Televen space that has been the history of the Venezuelan television, was shown that customers and advertisers Televen also supported the project.
On March 17, at the main offices of the National Institute of Parks of Venezuela (Inparques), representatives from Omnivisión and Televen, signed an agreement which guaranteed the environmental protection of the El Cuño hill, a place where both networks had installed antennas.
In November, the press department of Televen informed the media that their signal would go on the air in Zulia and Falcón on NTSC-M channel A13.