 Televicentro (Canal 2), founded in 1965 and owned by Televicentro de Nicaragua, S.A. of the Sacasa family and Canal 6 owned by the Somoza family and founded in 1959.The SSTV was officially constituted by law on February 10, 1984 but both TV stations were confiscated by the Sandinista government already in July 1979 and the SSTV existed "de facto" since then.The network was under the administration of a Board of Directors with representants from the Council of National Reconstruction, the president of The Superior Education National Council, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Telecommunications, the National Teacher's Association and the Nicaraguan Journalist Union.