TV Iguaçu was inaugurated on December 27, 1967, by the then governor of the State, Paulo Pimentel, owner of a group of the same name that also owned newspapers and radio stations.
[2] Between 1972 and 1976, TV Iguaçu was affiliated with Rede Globo, but due to pressure exerted by authorities linked to the military government of the then President of the Republic at the time, General Ernesto Geisel, who were against the political rise of Paulo Pimentel, the termination of the contract with Rede Globo.
Since then, TV Paranaense, which since the beginning of the 1970s had been controlled by a group of businessmen led by Francisco Cunha Pereira Filho, started to retransmit the signal from the Rio station, and TV Iguaçu, after two years with independent programming, it became an affiliate of Rede Tupi, which was in the midst of a deep financial crisis, culminating in its bankruptcy in 1980.
[2] In 1981, TV Iguaçu became one of the first affiliates of the Brazilian Television System, thanks to the indirect intervention of Ney Braga.
[5] Previously, the station's signal in this format could only be received by NET channel 504 in Curitiba, which went on air on August 2, 2011.