Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión

The channel was first aired on August 1, 1952 with the name La Voz Dominicana. This was the first television transmitter of its kind in the country and the fifth in Latin America, after Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, and Argentina. The original owner was José Arismendy Trujillo (Petán), brother of the notorious dictator Rafael Trujillo (d. 1961). It was a combination of radio and television that transmitted live programming for six hours. Romance Campesino was one of the first television and radio series that aired from the station. Besides providing entertainment and information, this media outlet was also used by the government to communicate favorable propaganda for the Trujillo regime.

The station carried the HIT callsign in Santo Domingo on channel 4. On August 1, 1958, the station opened two further relay stations, channel 9 in La Cumbre and channel 2 in Santo Cerro.

Argentine-Puerto Rican Helena Montalban and her future husband, German-Puerto Rican Axel Anderson, were among the channel's first stars.

During the 1970s, the channel was officially renamed Radio Televisión Dominicana (RTVD), a title which persisted for several decades. On July 29, 2003 its name was changed once again to Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión (CERTV) by means of a national decree which transformed it into a public company sustained and operated by the Dominican Government.