The station was opened on March 12, 1971, during the administration of governor Danilo Areosa as TV Educativa (TVE) with the aim of offering education to first grade students in state public schools.
[1] With a working group formed by the secretary of education and culture Vinícius Câmara to develop the project, a channel to operate the station was requested from the Brazilian government in the same year and granted in January 1968.
[1][3] With an air of improvisation, it was installed in an expropriated school without having a studio, sufficient equipment and experienced technical staff and with a signal emitted only eighty kilometers away, not reaching the interior public.
[3] In 1972, governor João Walter de Andrade invited the former secretary of Education of Maranhão José Maria Cabral Marques to take over the local ministry and transferred the presidency of the Fundação Televisão Educativa do Amazonas to his position for his work.
[3] On September 20, 2019, the station became TV Encontro das Águas, the result of research commissioned by the Amazonas government that found that its brand did not reach a local level.