[2] Until 2013, thanks to an agreement, the two SNT stations outside Asunción relayed much of the network's schedule, yet were affiliates in their own right, producing their own local programming for up to six hours each day.
Marcelo Fleitas, president of SNT, claimed that the two stations were unable to expand their coverage due to technical considerations.
Moreover, SNT decided not to have affiliates outside of Asunción, unifying the capital's feed with the rest of the country, under the grounds that when the decision was taken, only Ciudad del Este was still considered a strategic location for Paraguay's economy.
The issue lied in the relays the three stations wanted to build in each other's coverage areas, which did not appear in the 2011 regulations, whose primary intention was to give incentives for the installation of digital terrestrial television signals in the country.
A modification was accepted to Catelpar in 2012, after a rejected petition in 2011, under the grounds that the guidelines suggested only new relay stations and not new licenses.
The official launch of the reconverted service featured the presence of vice-president of Paraguay Juan Afara and notable guests from the press and political sectors, among them vice-governor of the province of Misiones Hugo Passalaqua and the channel's first director, Jorge Mateo Granada.