Although CCN and Cable Mágico Noticias were the first Peruvian news channels, Canal N established itself as the only permanent media outlet with local and national coverage in the 2000s, until the arrival of other competitors such as ATV+ and RPP TV.

[1] The concept of Canal N was conceived in 1997 by journalist Bernardo Roca Rey during the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima.

[2] "A whole afternoon making ceviche in a jar with plenty of pisco, and then we continued thinking about it and the idea matured," said Hume.

Inspired by CNN,[5] initially it competed against Cable Canal de Noticias,[6] owned by Expreso, being until then the only news channel in Peru.

[7] At the same time, on Cable Mágico's channel 8, which was previously occupied by the struggling Brazilian network Rede Manchete in its final weeks before closure, Canal N's logo appeared.