It operated on VHF channel 2 and was owned by Radiobrás, a public company that controlled the Federal Government's communication vehicles, including the Nacional AM and FM radio stations.
During the construction of the new federal capital, the Brazilian government opened a public tender for the acquisition of three television concessions for Diários Associados, Emissoras Unidas and the Union itself.
[3] Also at this time, an auditorium program aimed at children presented by Wanderley Mattos and live theater plays staged and directed by Shirley Padrão were created.
During João Goulart's government, TV Nacional delayed paying its actors' salaries for months, only being returned at the beginning of the military regime.
On November 16, 1981, a program began on TV Nacional, in partnership with CPCE at UnB, broadcast throughout Brazil, with the title "Universidade Aberta" with the aim of debating and analyzing cultural and political themes.
[6] To enable the formation of the station, the then president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed, in October, a provisional measure and, later, a decree in the Official Gazette of the Union that created the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), the result of the merger between Radiobrás and the Roquette Pinto Educational Communication Association of Rio de Janeiro, sponsor of MEC AM and FM radio stations and TVE Brasil.