Founded by notable businessman Giorgio Mendella in 1988, In its current incarnation, the channel is owned by Editrice 24, a company set up by local businessmen from the area.

[1] The channel initially offered a generalist schedule with entertainment programs such as Il gioco di Retemia, A domanda risponde and La sfida, news and current affairs such as Sala stampa oltre la notizia and Wip - World Important Person, as well as the health program Ciak Medicina and sports segments such as Zona Cesarini.

[1] In a rare coup, the network secured the exclusive rights to Inter Milan's matches in 1989, for the sum of 800 million liras, surpassing competitors RAI and Fininvest.

On the night of August 24, after Mendella fled abroad, the network was declared bankrupt, airing a half-hour video in loop about the network's history ending with a motivational message showing their intent to continue broadcasting ("Dreams can be interrupted for more or less time depending on the intensity of the storm that awoke you, but unlike reality, dreams will always return.

The previous month, over 2000 shareholders convened at the Lucca Tribunal in order to recoup the network's 18 billion liras in investments, with the aim of regaining a national license, replacing either Telemontecarlo or Telepiù 3, the cultural subscription channel.

[4][5] On July 6, 1995, Retemia launched its teletext service, GT1 (Giornale Telematico 1), outsourced to Acomedia, of commercial vocation and in some aspects, interactive.

The network had real time access to certain foreign teletext servies (among them CNN International), from Italian news wires (ANSA and Dire) as well as other services and games.

The channel airs news provided by the Dire agency and the Italian service of Euronews, as well as sports and lifestyle programming produced in Tuscany.