Grupo Ratensa

Grupo Ratensa (Radio y Televisión de Nicaragua, S.A.) is the Nicaraguan subsidiary of Albavisión, a Latin American media company owned by Guatemalan-Mexican-American businessman Remigio Ángel González.

"[1] Since 2015, Ángel González has also controlled Televicentro (Channel 2) as an independent operation from Ratensa, under the supervision of members of the Nicaraguan government.

[2] Ángel González began his business career in Nicaragua in the late 1980s when he met Octavio Sacasa, the de facto owner of Televicentro.

From 1979 to 1990, Televicentro was technically under the control of the state-owned Sistema Sandinista de Televisión, but Sacasa had significant influence over the station.

However, since Sacasa was interested in selling, negotiations began, eventually leading to a separate buyout of the channel as an independent operation from Grupo Ratensa in 2011.

[3] In the early 1990s, González took over the Channel 10 frequency, which was originally granted to local businessmen Carlos Reynaldo and César Augusto Lacayo.