Due to the distance and transportation difficulties, national programs arrived from Madrid by plane on tape and were broadcast on a delayed basis, days late.
On 26 April 1971, TVE Canarias premiered locally the daily newscast Telecanarias, and on 7 September 1971, the weekly folkloric music show Tenderete.
[4] On 20–22 May 1971, TVE made its first live transmissions from the Canary Islands to the whole of Spain, broadcasting nationwide the 6th Atlantic Song Festival held in Puerto de la Cruz.
[5] Connections between islands were improved, color television was introduced in 1976, and TVE inaugurated its production center in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1982.
That same year, the archipelago was able to tune in to the live broadcasts of TVE's second channel, on the occasion of the 1982 FIFA World Cup, held in Spain.
Finally, the corporation kept them but reduced the staff and the broadcast slots for regional programming, merging the structures of the former independent companies.