In 1967, the Universidad de Panamá began operation of a closed circuit television station on the university campus.
The name of "Canal 11" was replaced with "RTE" (not to be confused with the Irish broadcaster) after the end of military governance, and later "RTVE".
During this time period it added transmitters in other areas of the country and expanded its radio operations.
In 2004, RTVE was restructured as the Sistema Estatal de Radio y Televisión, with improved studios and programming.
Current programming is totally different as used to be in the 80s, with new studios; news, interviews and TV shows are produced locally.