12 Facts About RCN Television

RCN Television, branded as Canal RCN is a Colombian free-to-air television network.

RCN Television was created as a television arm of the RCN Radio network.

In 1967 RCN Radio took part in the bidding for spaces in the official television network, getting one hour a day which was split into two series: one made in Colombia named El Hogar and the American television series Bewitched.

In 1973 RCN Radio and its subsidiary RCN Television were purchased by Carlos Ardila Lulle, who three years later relaunched RCN as a television production company with several spaces into the official channels' schedule.

On July 10,1998, RCN went on the air as an independent signal with disastrous results compared to Caracol Television, a situation that stabilized when Carlos Ardila Lulle took over the direction of the channel.

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The president of MundoFox, Herman Lopez stated that the company was proud to have started MundoFox with RCN Television and is confident that they will realize the signal's full potential.

RCN Television took part of this bidding, getting one of the two licenses, the other went to Caracol TV.

In 1997 RCN started construction on the infrastructure to launch the television channel.

Since the successes of Francisco El Matematico and El Fiscal, RCN Television launched successful telenovelas which let it take the first place in the Colombian most watched networks: Me Llaman Lolita, and Yo soy Betty, la Fea, that became the most successful telenovela ever in Colombia, topping Cafe con aroma de mujer.

RCN Television gained some criticism against the fact that the network was getting ratings from the use of kids in a reality show, but the parents of the kids dismissed this affirmation.

RCN Television got a ratings hit with 2007 telenovelas Pura Sangre and La Hija del Mariachi, followed by the 2008 telenovelas, El Ultimo Matrimonio Feliz and Los Protegidos.

RCN Television was known for saying "Monocuco, su avena y su pitillo, compadre" in broken Spanish.