Tevita Tupouniua, a Tongan living in the United States, showed a proposal for a cable system to be implemented in Nuku'alofa in early 1982.
[2] The station was founded in August 1983 under the initiative of the Tupouniua brothers and an American company, Clearview International.
[7] The service was priced at T$150 for installation fees and T$15 for a monthly subscription and covered the entirety of the island of Tongatapu.
[8] As of early 1987, the owner and director of the channel demanded 200 subscribers in order to reach the break-even point.
[9] In January 1989, the service became entirely scrambled while still maintaining its subscriber base of 300, yet up until the decision was taken, a larger number of viewers was picking up the signals for free.
[6] With the 1991 reconversion, a survey conducted that same year showed that the station was being watched by 5,000-6,000 television sets, for a population estimated between 35,000 and 42,000.