 With this new antenna, Venevisión's signal was able to reach Petare, Caricuao, and Guarenas with better quality.In the 1970s, like other television stations in Venezuela, Venevisión began experimenting with color broadcasts.In 1978, the Ministry of Transport and Communications fined Venevisión 4,000 bolívares on two different occasions in one week for violating the regulations for color broadcasting.