Canal 12 is a nationwide terrestrial television channel in Nicaragua owned by Nicavisión, S.A., a company of the Valle Peters family.

Nicavisión was founded in 1993 and signed on the air December 11, 1994 by Mariano Valle.

During the 2018–2022 Nicaraguan protests, TELCOR, the broadcasting regulatory agency in Nicaragua, ordered cable providers to remove Canal 12 and several other stations that were providing news coverage of the demonstrations from their cable systems.

[2] In early 2019, under threats from Telcor, the channel had to remove Esta noche, Esta semana and Danilo Lacayo en vivo; regarding the first two, its director Carlos Fernando Chamorro reported that his equipment was stolen and his facilities where the programs were produced were taken by the police for the simple act of reporting.

Danilo Lacayo, head of news of the channel and host of the program of his name, also had to leave the country due to threats from sympathizers of the Nicaraguan State.