The initial steps for the implementation of the first television station in Ponta Grossa were made in October 1966, when businessmen Constâncio Mendes, main controller of Jornal da Manhã and Wallace Pina, owner and foudner of Rádio Difusora, received a license to operate on VHF channel 7.
[2] TV Esplanada, the third television station in inland Paraná, was formally inaugurated on April 17, 1972 at 4pm, in a solemnity that gathered several authorities of the minucupality, such as mayor Cyro Martins, who symbolically cut the inaugural strip, and bishop Dom Geraldo Pellanda, who baptized the facilities.
[1][2] In its early years the legal name was TV Educadora de Ponta Grossa Ltda, later changed to the current denomination.
Despite the precarious quality of its signal and audio, these two channels coming from Curitiba were easily received in Ponta Grossa.
In mid-2000, it was renamed RPC TV Esplanada, adopting the new name of the state's network and used as reference to the other assets that were part of the group's "umbrella".