In 1994, lawyer and radio personality Enrique Evans Espiñeira, economic analyst Gonzalo Chamorro Oschilewsky, and José Artemio Espinosa Martínez received the first ever UHF television concession in Chile.

The station suffered in its early years from an underpowered signal that failed to cover the entire Santiago Metropolitan Region and from being the only operating UHF outlet in the country.

However, many of them ended in surprise exits, most notably when Pamela Jiles was fired by TVO for appearing in a presidential campaign advertisement—all while the channel touted its "pluralist" and "tolerant" editorial stance.

[1] It was the second major media acquisition for Saieh that year, as he had only bought the VTR stake in January; he also owned La Tercera newspaper and several radio stations.

[7] In 2016, Copesa announced that it would sell most of its television station holdings to CNC Inversiones, an Antofagasta-based group headed by Marcelo Mendizábal; this included Canal 22 and channels 21 in Temuco and 35 in Concepción.