On May 15, 1956, Channel 3 began broadcasting and became the first private station in Central America. His first studies were located in the 8th. avenue and 9th. Zone 1 street, its antenna was located in the city center. In 1961 his studies were destroyed after a fire, forcing the canal to be out of the air for a few months. Later, it moves its facilities to a location in Las Majadas, zone 11. The channel is considered "pioneer of television" as it was the first to make live broadcasts from mobile units and in color broadcasting. In 1968, the Canal 3 facility was looted, and on February 4, 1976, it suffered material losses from a 1976 Guatemala earthquake. In the 1980s, he incorporated stereo sound, but in 1982 the government of Efrain Rios Montt gave the order to close the channel for about a month. In 1990, it began broadcasting 24 hours a day. The station made its first broadcasts in high definition during World Cup Germany 2006 experimentally on Channel 19 of the band UHF. In 2015, he decided to create a group calling itself Grupo Chapín TV, along with his sister channels.
Illicit Election Funding "AP" State Co-optation Case in Guatemala On June 2 of 2016 the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala and Public Prosecutor's Office announced the case State Cooperation Case in Guatemala State Co-optation. According to the investigations, in 2008, the then presidential candidateOtto Pérez Molina, general secretary of the , was shaping up as the presidential candidate. Because his party needed funds, a group of companies controlled by was used to receive illicit money, including Comercial Urma, Publicmer, Publiases and Serpumer. These entities began receiving money flows from Guatemala Radio and Television and Televisiete As the campaign progressed, channels increased payments to the four companies to the sum of Q17 679 200.00. Monthly, two payments were recorded for Q215 600.00, one for each channel. Both television stations benefited from million-dollar contracts after the new government took office in 2012. Payments were not reported to the Supreme Electoral Court and were used to purchase new vehicles: ten trucks, one bus and five vans, which were used in the Patriot Party's presidential campaign.
