When the Institute for Electrical Research and Testing of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile informed the rector Juan Gómez Millas, in 1959, that the experiments were already sufficiently advanced to attempt the permanent operation of a canal, this instructs the Secretary-General, Álvaro Bunster, to establish the corresponding contact with the engineers and to provide the necessary elements for its start-up.

Among these stood out the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education, Eugenio González, who started a real battle for university television.

Both the selection of people —all administrative or academic from the university—and the generation of a special instance closely linked to the rectory for the start-up show the explicit institutional will to run the channel as a properly university project.

This first stage of Channel 9 coincides with the end of the second term of the rector Juan Gómez Millas, who in cultural matters continues and deepens the principles of the extension of his predecessor Juvenal Hernández.

So much so, that the first project presented by Leopoldo Castedo to define the channel, proposes a “serious study of the insufficiencies of the national educational system so that TV can make up for this deficiency and reach all those people and sectors - especially peasants with its action.

The University of Chile sold a significant percentage of its TV channel to Grupo Cisneros in 1993, changing its name to Chilevisión.

[8] This sale did not include the terrestrial television frequency, which is still owned by Universidad de Chile and is used under a paid usufruct scheme, similar to a lease.

The TVN-owned TV Chile subscription channel also broadcasts limited Chilevisión programming throughout the Americas for the Chilean diaspora.

In response, he defended the accuracy and dismissed the officer who leaked the full video, causing even more adverse reactions among viewers.