The undertaking began as a three-year experiment in 1960, with MPATI organizing, producing, and broadcasting instructional television with seed money from the Ford Foundation.
By 1963, MPATI moved into its second phase where it relied entirely on membership fees, but was never financially stable.
In its third reorganization, MPATI, unable to meet expenses through membership fees, ceased producing and broadcasting courses in 1968 and became a tape library.
Program slates, taped classroom instruction and test patterns with canned music were all that was aired from the MPATI planes.
Frequently snowy pictures were what students saw from the low-power transmitters of KS2XGA or KS2XGD channels 72 and 76 UHF respectively.