The company started under the name Producciones Eduardo Lemaitre y Cía Ltda. in 1979. In the licitación of that year, it received a paltry 1 1/2 hours a week of programming. The flagship program of this programadora, which aired in one of Colombian television's best timeslots, was Revivamos nuestra historia. Since Lemaitre lived in Cartagena, Promec Televisión produced the programs. Promec also marketed the other half-hour a week that this programadora was allocated moved from 8pm to 8:30pm, where it would remain until its cancellation in 1987 due to high program costs. Other programs in this time period included Telesemana with Jota Mario Valencia on Saturday mornings, then on Saturday afternoons in conjunction with Producciones Cinevisión; a spinoff of Revivamos nuestra historia known as Revivamos Nuestra Historia Universal featuring world history topics; and a Saturday afternoon sports news program called Deportevé con Oscar Rentería. The licitación of 1987 awarded Lemaitre 4 hours a week, used to broadcast shows like the TV seriesGenghis Khan, the journalistic program Nuestro Colombia, Grandes Series Mundiales, and the animated El Correcaminos. Lemaitre also teamed up with Promec in another area: the programming of movies for holidays, beginning in 1984 and continuing through 1991. In 1988, Producciones Eduardo Lemaitre was sold to Humberto Arbeláez, the founder of Promec. Under his direction, the programadora took on a new name: CPT.
CPT (1988-93)
This first incarnation of CPT inherited Lemaitre's four hours a week of programming, plus it continued to program festivos. Most of the programs stayed. Debts piled up, and CPT did not place a bid in the licitación of 1991, exiting television in August of that year. CPT however did come back briefly in 1992-93 to program festivos on Canal A.
CPT (1997-2003)
In 1997, the dead CPT was acquired by Fernando Barrero Chávez, Gustavo Castro Caicedo and FranciscoJosé Pereira, placing a bid in that year's licitación. It was awarded 9.5 hours a week on Canal A, airing programs including Sexo Sentido con Lucía Nader, the War of the Worlds TV series, and Todo por la Plata, transferred from DFL Televisión. It also partnered with Andes Televisión to air the Premier Caracol movie for the first seven months of 1998. CPT, however, did not receive a news license, for which it had bid. By 2001, CPT, amidst the rapidly growing programadoras crisis, had fallen under Ley 550, Colombia's then-bankruptcy reorganization law. It would leave the air in 2003.
