[1] The first proposal to set up a television service to Rarotonga was submitted by the Nine Network in 1987, the project would work depending on the situation in Fiji.
A new proposal was submitted by Television New Zealand, which unlike the Nine Network, didn't recommend a free-to-air system for broadcast.
[2] Since the government assured that all Cook Islander citizens were levied with the increase, the plan was to make the television service available in the whole archipelago.
As of 1993 the final phase of the project was still on the cards, by bringing the service to the remaining islands: Atiu, Mitiaro, Mangaia, Penrhyn and Pukapuka.
[2] In August 2010, Isaiah Narayan of Fijian commercial station Mai TV visited CITV to install a new fully-automated programming system.
In the other outer islands, CITV produced a compilation tape of local and international news reports.
[2] CITV wanted to air CNN International at least once or twice a day in the mid-90s, but the price to pay for the relays turned out to be larger than the total service cost for the station's staff, equipment and programme renting.