LSN

LSN is an American Spanish-language commercial broadcast television network owned by the LSN Inc. division of RKO Networks Group, a division of RKO Media, which itself is owned by RKO Holdings. It was launched on June 18, 1980. In 1994, the network was acquired by. RKO Media then purchased the network in 1998.

The network is headquartered in, , with offices in and , and production facilities in  (LSN Studios Florida),  (LSN Studios California) and ,  (LSN Studios Texas). The network also maintains some offices at Tony Tower in San Antonio, where the network was formerly headquartered.

History
The origins of LSN (standing for the Latin-Spanish Network) lie in the launch of the Spanish-language independent television station WLPP-TV (now WLSN-TV) in, on May 1, 1978. The idea of the station being part of an actual network did not emerge until sister station KLSN-TV—whose programming was near identical to that of WLPP-TV—was launched in, in June of that year, quickly followed by  station KSXZ-TV. All three stations were owned by Quantum Communications, which owned many other Spanish-language stations. On October 30, 1979, Quantum's stations came together to found a new television network named LSN.

The network was launched on June 18, 1980, with its base of operations at Quantum's Miami headquarters and San Antonio office building, and its original content, which in its early years comprised talk shows and variety shows, produced in the studios of KSXZ-TV in San Antonio and WLSN-TV in Miami.

By 1983, LSN and Quantum had moved the majority of their technical operations into Tony Tower, the San Antonio office building that housed KSXZ-TV's studios. Around this time, it also began producing original programming, a rarity for Spanish-language television in America. Without having to rely on the traditional September–August schedule of the English-language networks, LSN was allowed to produce and air shows "whenever it wanted". By 1988, Quantum had converted a former livestock facility in San Antonio into a larger studio for the production of original programming, and they began to produce their own original telenovelas, starting with the series Mi amor, mi vida, which starred a mix of talent from San Antonio and Miami.