Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión


Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión is a radio and television network operating from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. It is a public television channel operated and owned by the Dominican government. Following the frequency unification of 1996, CERTV has been aired throughout the country on channel 4. Previously, channel 4 was broadcast in Santo Domingo and the Southern zone, channel 5 in the Northern region and channel 12 in the Southwest.

History

The channel was first aired on August 1, 1952 with the name La Voz Dominicana. This was the first television transmitter of its kind in the country and the fifth in Latin America, after Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, and Argentina. The original owner was José Arismendy Trujillo, brother of the notorious dictator Rafael Trujillo. It was a combination of radio and television that transmitted live programming for six hours. Romance Campesino was one of the first television and radio series that aired from the station. Besides providing entertainment and information, this media outlet was also used by the government to communicate favorable propaganda for the Trujillo regime.
During the 1970s, the channel was officially renamed Radio Televisión Dominicana, a title which persisted for several decades. On July 29, 2003 its name was changed once again to Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión by means of a national decree which transformed it into a public company sustained and operated by the Dominican Government.

CERTV: Definition and Functions

According to Article 4 of the law which created it, CERTV has a general objective of managing and running public telecommunication for the transport and diffusion of television signals in VHF and UHF and television systems for coaxial cable, equivalent to public broadcasting networks for medium and short wave and frequency modulated for the transmission and broadcasting of radio and TV programming, as well as the transmission and broadcasting of these programs by other media types that exists or could exist in the future.

List of Programs seen in this channel