DW Español is the regional version of official German TV Deutsche Welle for the Americas.

DW-TV began as RIAS-TV, a television station launched by the West Berlin broadcaster RIAS (Radio in the American Sector / Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor) in August 1988.

The fall of the Berlin Wall the following year and German reunification in 1990 meant that RIAS-TV was to be closed down.

Since 6 February 2012 Deutsche Welle made a corporate relaunch and uses the abbreviation DW for all its services.

At the very same time Deutsche Welle revised the complete TV program, since 2012 the Latin American desk airs 20 hours of Spanish program daily, and from 30 September 2013 it broadcasts 24 hours in Spanish.