In 1999, Radio HIN Televisión (Rahintel) was in apparent decline, after years surviving without new programs and without the support of its parent company, Grupo Financiero Universal, which had gone bankrupt in the late 1980s.
Due to the entire situation, Rahintel was put up for sale in 1999, being the Bonetti Group who decided to purchase channel 7.
After months of intense promotion, in which a younger approach was noted for channel 7, Antena Latina was put on air on October 16, 1999.
Before the formal launch of the network, it broadcast a boxing match between Oscar de la Hoya and Félix Trindad, as well as signing an agreement with CNN.
[1] The arrival of Antena Latina introduced new technologies to Dominican television, such as the complement of the first and only virtual studio in the Caribbean area, a breakthrough for those times.