The station first went on the air on a test basis, which would only become regular if the license was sent from the headquarters in Saipan, which Helgenberger was bound to receive by the end of the month.
With that, the station would enable the carriage of special sessions of the Congress of Micronesia and local sports events.
There was also a plan for a local news program, with Helgenberger receiving requests from people who wanted to be "Ponape's first Walter Cronkite".
At launch, it became the seventh television station to sign on in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
[2] KPON-TV lost its monopoly in 1989, when a cable company, TV Pohnpei, Inc., started broadcasting in June that year.