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TV Perú

State television channel operated by the Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión del Perú; the Media Ownership Monitor dates the channel to 1958 and State Media Monitor classifies the operator as State-Controlled.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026
TypeFree-to-air state television channel
OperatorInstituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión del Perú (IRTP)
Creating instrumentDecreto Legislativo N° 829 of 1996, per the legislative register entry
Channel founded1958, per the Media Ownership Monitor Peru profile

What is TV Perú?

TV Perú is Peru's state television channel, published online at tvperu.gob.pe, where the site's programming pages carry its analogue and digital schedules.[1] The Media Ownership Monitor Peru identifies it as “the state channel” and one of six channels broadcasting free-to-air on the VHF band, alongside Latina, América Televisión, Panamericana Televisión, ATV and NexTV.[2]

Its operator is described by the same monitor as the Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión del Perú, “a public body affiliated with the Ministry of Culture (formerly it was affiliated with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers), which has administrative, economic and financial autonomy”.[3] The same profile lists the operator's platforms as “Tv Perú, Tv Perú Noticias, Canal IPe, Radio Nacional y Radio La Crónica”.[3] That is the monitoring body's wording, carried rather than paraphrased.[3]

What does TV Perú cover?

The channel is a general-service broadcaster: its own site carries national news, culture and entertainment programming as well as a sports desk, and its schedule pages list its analogue and digital services.[1] Sport appears within that general schedule rather than on a separate domain.[1]

Its sport reporting extends to state sport programmes as well as competition. The state school games run by the Ministerio de Educación, the Juegos Escolares Deportivos y Paradeportivos, have been covered by the operator's outlets; the figures used for those games on the Peru country page come from the state news agency Andina and the ministry's own results service rather than from this channel.[4] Several sections of the channel's own site returned errors when retrieved for this page, so no list of its sports rights or fixtures is given here.

How large is TV Perú's audience?

No audited audience figure for TV Perú could be retrieved. The Media Ownership Monitor Peru's own profile of the channel records its audience share as missing data.[3]

The currency for Peruvian television is named by the monitor and is Kantar Ibope Media, formerly Ibope Time Perú.[2] Its 2015 figures, as the monitor publishes them, give the three highest-share free-to-air channels as “América Televisión (22.98%), Latina (16.38%) and ATV (10.84%)”; TV Perú is not among the channels for which the monitor publishes a share.[2][5] Those are 2015 readings and not current ones. State Media Monitor's April 2025 assessment of the operator gives a budget rather than an audience: a 2024 figure of “PEN 97.3m (US$ 25.8m)”, drawn primarily from governmental sources.[6]

Since when has TV Perú existed?

The channel and its operator have different dates. The Media Ownership Monitor Peru gives the channel's founding year as 1958.[3] The operator is later: the Peruvian legislative register entry for Decreto Legislativo N° 829 of 1996 is titled “Crean el Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión del Perú - IRTP”.[7] The operative text of that decree could not be retrieved — the file served at the register carried no machine-readable text — so its articles are not quoted here and only the number, the year and the register's own title for it are reported.[7]

The attachment of the operator within government has changed and the monitor records both positions: affiliated with the Ministry of Culture at the time of its research, “formerly it was affiliated with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers”.[3] State Media Monitor records a further change: a 2024 decree that dismantled two governing boards and established a headship reporting to the Presidency and the Ministry of Culture.[6] Created, attached and restructured are three dates and are kept apart here.

Why does TV Perú matter in Peru's sport?

It is the state's own broadcast outlet, and its position is documented by a named monitoring body rather than asserted. State Media Monitor's assessment, dated April 2025, classifies the IRTP as “State-Controlled (SC)”, states that its editorial stance “is closely aligned with the government's official narrative” with content that “habitually tilts in favor of the government”, and records that no independent mechanism exists to verify its editorial autonomy.[6] Those are that body's words and its classification.[6] The Media Ownership Monitor Peru puts it separately and in its own words: “The independence of the state channel has been questioned on more than one occasion due to previous governments having used its signal for propaganda.”[3]

Against that, the Media Ownership Monitor Peru's concentration findings set the private-sector picture into which the state channel broadcasts. The monitor states that its investigation “analyzed the 40 media outlets with the largest audience numbers in Peru” and that “out of these 40, 16 belong to the El Comercio Group”.[8] On television its own figures record that in 2015 “three channels capture almost half the free-to-air signal”.[2] A reader weighing Peruvian sport coverage has both of those on the record, with their dates attached.

References

  1. TV Perú (tvperu.gob.pe) — home page and programming schedule. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  2. Media Ownership Monitor Peru — Television: the ten channels examined, the six VHF free-to-air channels, and the 2015 Kantar Ibope Media shares. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  3. Media Ownership Monitor Peru — TV Perú outlet profile: founded 1958, operated by the IRTP as a public body affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, audience share missing data. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  4. Agencia Andina — Juegos Deportivos y Paradeportivos 2025: Minedu moviliza a más de 3 millones de escolares, 29 May 2025. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  5. Media Ownership Monitor Peru — Concentration findings: advertising and audience shares by group for the research period. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  6. State Media Monitor — Instituto Nacional de Radio y Television de Peru (IRTP), assessment dated April 2025: classification State-Controlled, 2024 budget, 2024 governance decree, editorial assessment. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  7. Portal Iberoamericano de Derecho de la Cultura — register entry for Decreto Legislativo 829/1996, “Crean el Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión del Perú - IRTP”. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  8. Media Ownership Monitor Peru — Media: the 40 highest-audience media outlets analysed, 16 of them belonging to the El Comercio Group. Accessed 2026-09-23.