on 15 august 1959, the first television transmission in the city of arequipa was performed at the cultural hall of the national university of san agustin. it was an initiative of businessman jack dwyre through his new company televisora sur peruana in partnership with san agustin national university as channel 2 (now tv unsa). the aforementioned university became one of the first in south america to operate a public tv station from inside its campus. since then, two other public television stations began to operate in arequipa: radio television continental (channel 6) in 1962 and compañía de radiodifusión arequipa (channel 8) in 1987 (broadcasting as atv sur since 2012).