Founded by Javier Marin in 2004 in Brookline as Hispanic News Press (HNP), the company launched El Planeta in May 2005 with 5,000 copies in circulation.
In September 2005, four editions of the newspaper targeted four different areas in Massachusetts: (Greater Boston, Lawrence, Worcester and Providence).
He approached WCEA / Cuencavisión, a TV station founded in 1982 by Peter Cuenca, a Cuban immigrant to Boston.
A year later in 2012, he and two other partners built a state of the art new studio in Somerville, MA and rebranded the TV station as MásTV.
In early 2012, Marin decided to re-acquire El Planeta, as he saw the opportunity to re-integrate it into a media strategy for the local growing market.