In a visit to Mexico City, he and his son-in-law Miguel Brooks sat at the lobby of a hotel, watching Mexican television.

[1] On January 26, 1959, Compañía Televisora Hondureña S.A. (HRTG-TV Canal 5) was founded with mixed capital work 180 thousand lempiras.

55% of the shares were held by Fernando Lardizábal and Miguel Brooks, 30% by the American ABC television network, and 15% by Rene Sempé and Raúl Zelaya.

The first test broadcasts were held on September 15 of the same year, to 25 monochrome television sets in Tegucigalpa and the signal came from the Cantagallo hill - behind Santa Lucía - covering 96.56 km.

[2] The first live program was Las Letras Pagan ("The Letters Pay") sponsored by El Indio coffee and produced by Luis Valentine, it was hosted by Nahúm Valladares.

The content offer slowly increased, led by entertainers such as Mario López Urquía, Omar de Jesús García, Pedro René Gonzáles and later Rafael Zavala.

[2] Its first news program emerged at the end of 1959, whose presenter was Gustavo Acosta Mejía and was sponsored by the national airline SAHSA, but was quickly replaced.

The rest of the programming was a package of Spanish-dubbed American television series that ABC supplied under an agreement with the stations it set up, and whose dubbing was made in Puerto Rico or Mexico.

Among them was Ante la Prensa (Facing the Press), whose goal was to boost support for Oswaldo López Arellano and legitimize his position.

[1] In 1965, the company became the property of Rafael Ferrari and his partner Manuel Villeda Toledo, who in 1966 moved to their current location on Suyapa Boulevard, which is now used by Televicentro.

[1] The group avoided talking about the 2009 Honduran coup d'état, in a period marked by increasing social and media polarization.