Televisión Universitaria UMSA is a Bolivian terrestrial television station owned by the Higher University of San Andrés, itself headquartered in La Paz, the capital and seat of government.
In this context, in 1979, the Higher University of San Andrés founded its television station under the auspices of the National Council for Higher Education, with experimental broadcasts in closed circuit.
By means of Supreme Decree nº 16800, the station's first terrestrial broadcast was held on December 24, 1980, when the station formally launched, on VHF channel 5 (currently occupied by Bolivisión), with a 1Kw transmitter and a daily schedule running from 5:30pm to 10pm.
[5] By the early 2010s, the channel was added to COTEL TV and Multivisión's cable offers.
[6] The channel became the new home of the political talk show El Pentágono in 2017, which had moved from Red PAT.