
" RCN Televisión hopes to make MundoMax the most important Hispanic network in the United States in a short time. On July 31, 2015, the president of RCN Televisión, Ibra Morales, stated regarding the decision that "although we have canceled Noticias MundoFox, RCN Televisión continues its dedication to bringing quality news coverage to the Hispanic community in the United States, in a vibrant and dynamic way. In addition, RCN Televisión announced that it had canceled the network's news broadcasts. The rebrand was officially completed on August 13 of that same year, coinciding with the third anniversary of the launch of the signal. On July 28, 2015, MundoFox began to progressively introduce a new identity as MundoMax.
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The president of MundoFox, Herman López stated that the company was proud to have started MundoFox with RCN Televisión and is confident that they will realize the signal's full potential. On July 16, 2015, 21st Century Fox announced that it had sold its stake in MundoFox to RCN Televisión, giving full ownership. On April 30, 2014, RCN Televisión decided to suspend its HD signal transmitted by the main pay television operators in Colombia. In 2012 he began to broadcast his first telenovela in HD as it was " Pobres Rico" with the protagonists Juan Pablo Raba and Maria Helena Doering. 2010sĪs of January 2011 and with the arrival of DTT, RCN Televisión began broadcasting in HD. This is the direct competitor of Novelas Caracol of the company Caracol Televisión. On November 3, 2008, its sister channel called NTN24 went on the air, a channel that broadcasts news 24 hours a day, with spaces for opinion, analysis, economics, sports, entertainment and specialized topics.Īs of August 5, 2009, the creation of RCN Telenovelas, RCN Televisión's novel channel through the subscription television network, was announced. Upon reaching 10 years of its operation as a private channel, Canal RCN's signal reached 97% of the Colombian geography with the launch of 13 stations covering 24 municipalities in Santander, Antioquia, Guaviare, Risaralda, Cundinamarca, Norte de Santander, Boyacá and the State Táchira in Venezuela. In 2002 he premiered his first reality show, which was Protagonistas de novela, hosted by María Cecilia Botero and recorded from Miami, United States. In 2000 it began broadcasting its programming 24 hours a day. The first telenovela that the channel RCN Televisión premiered was La madre in 1998, starring Margarita Rosa de Francisco and Héctor de Malba and directed by Pepe Sánchez. Its first broadcast of the channel began at 9:00 pm with the first broadcast of RCN News. On July 10, 1998, RCN went on the air as an independent signal with disastrous results compared to Caracol Televisión, a situation that stabilized when Carlos Ardila Lülle took over the direction of the channel. Within the telenovelas they produced in the 1990s, there were productions like La Otra Raya del Tigre, La Vorágine, La Casa de las dos Palmas, Azucar, Momposina and Hombres, all of them raising parts of the Colombian culture and showing it to the world. Among this productions were La Potra Zaina, Las Juanas and the international hit Café, con aroma de mujer, which not only have been broadcast in several countries across the globe but have been remade several times, with Destilando Amor being the newest version. Nevertheless, the telenovelas gave to RCN an outstanding recognition, first in Latin America and in places as distant as Vietnam and Hungary.


RCN became one of the major television production companies in Colombia, producing not only telenovelas and game shows, but also sports events and news.
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The 1990sĪlong with Caracol TV and R.T.I. Other members included Caracol, RTI, Producciones PUNCH, Producciones JES and Datos y Mensajes. In August 1988, RCN became part of OTI Colombia, gaining the rights to broadcast the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup.
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RCN produced television series with high remembrance among viewers like Cusumbo and El Taita in 1984, which was the first Colombian telenovela filmed in exterior locations. RCN was the first company that broadcast a television program both live and in color, the 1980 Miss Colombia beauty contest since that year RCN has held the rights to broadcast this event.

In 1973 RCN Radio and its subsidiary RCN Television were purchased by Carlos Ardila Lülle, who three years later relaunched RCN as a television production company (or programadora) with several spaces into the official channels' schedule. In 1967 RCN Radio took part in the bidding for spaces in the official television network, getting one hour a day which was split into two series: one made in Colombia named El Hogar (The Home) and the American television series Bewitched. RCN Television was created as a television arm of the RCN Radio network.
