[2] Telesistema Boliviano (TSB), the initial licensee, was founded on November 22, 1983, as the first commercial television company in Bolivia,[3] granting the license to operate in La Paz on channel 2.

[4] Experimental broadcasts started on February 12, 1985, before becoming regular on April 14, 1985, being owned by Antonio Maldonado.

On weekdays the channel broadcast for seventeen hours on average (7am to 12am) and twelve on weekends (11am to 11pm).

[5] In the early 90s, its local newscast was presented by priest Eduardo Pérez, who left the station in 1994 to concentrate on a radio career.<[6] At the time, Juan Pablo Guzmán was the head of its news division, and Pérez during his stay with TSB appeared in a soccer uniform to present the sports segment and attached to a noose in order to protest a gag rule to an extent where he started to suffer from asphyxiation.

[8] After the rift that led to the creation of the Unitel network, the legal entity behind channel 2 in La Paz was, as late as 2002, still granted to Telesistema Boliviano.