Telemetro


Telemetro is a television network headquartered in Panama City, Panama, with repeaters throughout the country. The station broadcasts in NTSC format and in Panama City also in DVB-T format. In 1996 Telemetro and RPC TV merged and formed Corporacion Medcom.
Main programming consists on news, novelas, and local reality shows; it has a direct rivalry with TVN since it has similar programming.

History

In 1981, Nicolas Gonzalez Revilla founded Telemetro as a metropolitan VHF scrambled pay-per-view channel, this format was not successful and was replaced for regular broadcasting, by 1983 reached Colon Province, by 1990 expanded to Central Provinces and finally in 1992, covered Chiriqui and Bocas del Toro to have national coverage.

Specific programming

News

Originally launched as a kids programming channel under the brand of Tele 7 In 2011 the channel was relaunched as Mall TV to feature local shopping stores advertisements, real state development, health clinics and infomercials. The channel is also available in many provinces by cable with Cable Onda.