Peruvian National Television

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TV Peru

Type	television network
Country	Peru
Availability	National
Founder	A UNESCO joint venture
Owner	National Institute of Radio and Television of Peru (Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión del Perú) a Peruvian Government member
Key people	Marco Aurelio Denegri
Launch date	January 17, 1958
Past names	TV-Perú, RTP (Radio y Televisión Peruana) (RTP Radio and Television of Peru)
Website	www.tnp.com.pe

Peruvian National Television or National Television of Peru (Spanish: Televisión Nacional del Perú) (TNP) is a non-profit public broadcasting television network service with 22 member TV stations in Peru. In Lima, the VHF frequency is Channel 7.

The station was founded in January 17, 1958 with the aid of UNESCO in a joint venture production with Peruvian Government, under the name Radio y Televisión Peruana (RTP). Dr. Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Peru's late 1950s minister of education held the innaguration ceremony. The station started the process moving from monochrome broadcasts to color in 1974. Finally in 1978 RTP officially launched broadcasts in color.

In the 1980s the station started satellite transmissions across Peru. In 1986, during Alan García's government, the TV station was given the popular name TV-Perú Canal 7 (but the legal name remained RTP). The TNP name was adopted in the mid-1990s during Alberto Fujimori's regime.

Nowadays TNP is better known for its regular programming devoted to spread Peruvian culture, as same airing reruns of korean dramas such as All About Eve and A wish upon star.

TNP's headquarters are in Lima, Peru.