La Tele was a regional television network in Venezuela.

La Tele was created by a group of communication companies and began its testing phase under the name Canal 12 on December 1, 2002 (which coincidentally happened to be the day before the beginning of the Venezuelan general strike against President Hugo Chávez).

The channel 12 signal was previously used by the defunct Marte TV.

[1] La Tele was officially inaugurated on August 3, 2003 at 8pm.

[2] Originally, eighty percent of La Tele's programming were imports.