Suriname has long been talking about the modernization and expansion of the television signal, in addition to this there was the presidential political promise to the indigenous communities to take the television and internet signal to their communities.

In addition to this, prior to the approval of the project for the STVS channel, during one of the meetings with the managers, there were difficulties or rather concerns that had to be resolved. One of them was the need to change the technological standard of television, since the present one was programmed to be used under the European standard and was to be expected, since Suriname came from being a Dutch colony and consequently the European influences are very marked in This territory, but commercially the relations with North America were very solid, even a customs agent reported that more than 500 thousand digital televisions had been imported from North America. These and other reasons resulted in the recommendation of the

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