RCN produced television series with high remembrance among viewers like Cusumbo and El Taita in 1984, which was the first Colombian telenovela filmed in exterior locations.

In August 1988, RCN became part of OTI Colombia, gaining the rights to broadcast the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup.

[4] Along with Caracol Televisión and RTI Producciones, RCN became one of the major television production companies in Colombia, producing not only telenovelas and game shows, but also sports events and news.

Among this productions were La Potra Zaina, Las Juanas and the international hit Café, con aroma de mujer, which not only have been broadcast in several countries across the globe but have been remade several times, with Destilando Amor being the newest version.

On July 10, 1998, RCN went on the air as an independent signal with disastrous results compared to Caracol Televisión, a situation that stabilized when Carlos Ardila Lülle took over the direction of the channel.

In 2002, it premiered its first reality show, which was Protagonistas de novela, hosted by María Cecilia Botero and recorded from Miami, United States.

In 2012 they began to broadcast his first telenovela in HD as it was "Pobres Rico" with the protagonists Juan Pablo Raba and Maria Helena Doering.

On April 30, 2014, RCN Televisión decided to suspend its HD signal transmitted by the main pay television operators in Colombia.

RCN Televisión hopes to make MundoMax the most important Hispanic network in the United States in a short time.

In November of that same year, RCN bought the newspaper La República, the country's first specialized media outlet for economic and business news, which also owns a multimedia television channel.

On March 30, 2017, three years after its withdrawal from the HD signal in several cable operators, the chain reactivated it after a Supreme Court ruling, depending on the country's coverage.

This television network has produced many hits that have been sold around the world, such as: I'm Ugly Betty ; Woman-fragranced Coffee; The Mob's Widow ; Three Miracles ; The Last Happy Marriage; Chepe Fortuna ; The Pola; Clean Hand ; Bride for Two ; The Filly Zaina ; La María ; Francisco the Mathematician , Los Reyes, Until Silver Do Us Part and Sincere Love, among other productions .

The RCN's telenovelas those years were perceived to be of only middling quality, not until with the launching of Los Reyes (a Colombian version of Argentinian series Los Roldán) and Fernando Gaitan's Hasta que la plata nos separe (Until the Money Divides Us) that a telenovela from RCN got high ratings to become the most watched show in Colombia.

Plans for the format change began to surface in July 2010 after Andrews involuntarily left the country in May after doing a report in El Cerrito, Valle del Cauca.