Setup The Paraguayan dictatorship led by
Alfredo Stroessner had been studying the introduction of a television channel in the country since at least 1963. During a visit from then-president of Brazil
João Goulart over the construction of the
Itaipú dam, Goulart said "Will this air on Paraguayan state TV?", to which Stroessner said that there was a station, which, in reality, did not exist at the time. From this episode, Stroesser started plans to set up the country's first television station. Unlike other countries, where the first television stations were set up by state companies, the service in Paraguay was being set up by a private company, which was one of the economic pillars of the regime. At the time, nobody owned a television set. Studies were being conducted abroad in Germany, France, and Argentina from September 28, 1963, While in the Netherlands, Delgado signed an agreement with
Philips to provide technical equipment. The first program was the inaugural act of the channel presented by Ricardo Sanabria, where Alfredo Stroessner was present. This was followed by the first recorded item, which was about the benefits of television, narrated by Rodolfo Schaerer Peralta. The channel initially broadcast two hours a day. one of the tallest buildings in Asunción at the time, adjacent to the area where the building's elevator machine worked. Sustained by a water tank, a tower of approximately 8 meters was erected, with an antenna on top. The station only had an ERP of 0.5kW. At the beginning, the station's canned output used telecine equipment, while commercials were just static slides. In July 1969, the station carried the
Apollo 11 moon landing. and in 1980, in Presidente Franco (Alto Paraná) on channel 8. The formal arrival of color television in 1979 led to an increase in the quality of the programming shown. SNT carried Stroessner's exile, and after the political shift, renamed its evening news program from Hora 20 to 24 Horas. La mañana de cada día also premiered around this time. (being the first Paraguayan channel with international reach) and in the early 2000s it was renamed SNT Cerro Corá. A tornado knocked down SNT's transmitter on 21 March 1998 during the coverage of the 1998
Miss Paraguay pageant. None of SNT's staff was damaged. With the help of
Tevedos' staff, the channel resumed its programming within less than 48 hours.
Under Albavisión Between 1998 and 1999, the former administrations, mostly politicians, left their control over the network, ultimately selling SNT to Mexican businessman
Remigio Ángel González of the Albavisión conglomerate. In 2005, at the time the network turned 40, local programming was heavily reduced, but was open for local programming, which was subject to cost-benefit relations. The network was already in a stage of massive consolidation, in both administrative and programming vectors. The 40th anniversary of the channel was marked on 29 September 2005 with a special ceremony in the channel's facilities, as well as the beginning of a special series of channel and staff memories in its morning program
La mañana de cada día. On 12 January 2011, the base of its transmitting tower was damaged by a supposedly handmade bomb, however the channel didn't interrupt its programming and nobody was made responsible for the act. The network fired journalist Andrés Caballero on 6 January 2012, being accused of persecution by the new administration of the network. A bomb threat affected the SNT headquarters on the morning of 23 July 2012. There was no evacuation and police investigation was underway. Said threat was later confirmed to be a false alarm. Following the conversion of PTV and Sur TV into independent channels within the same group, SNT's Asunción feed started broadcasting in Presidente Franco and Encarnación in frequencies adjacent to the existing channels. On 12 November, an agreement was signed between SNT, Paravisión, radio stations and ABC Diario to cover the internal elections of the
Colorado Party on 9 December. In 2013, the channel adopted its current logo, with a more "solid" approach and with a logo that was less diluted in colors, as the logo used since the 90s was already deemed outdated and out of phase. SNT has been transmitting in high definition (HD) since April 2017, in a process that started with an experimental service on cable with the CONMEBOL qualifiers, which was followed by the terrestrial launch on channel 20.1. SNT conducted its digital test broadcasts in April 2017, at a time when the network was starting plans to convert to HD. The channel picked physical channel 20.1 for its broadcasts. On 13 June 2017, it premiered
Verdades Secretas. An official app (
SNT Play) featuring live streams of SNT and
C9N, among other functions, was made available in September 2019. Chiche Corte, who had been with RPC in the past, rejoined SNT in January 2020, where his television career started in 1995. He joined the team of La mañana de cada día, replacing Carlos Troche. The channel, alongside its sister outlets, started a campaign in September 2023 to broadcast the matches of the
Paraguayan national football team, whose rights were with cable channel GEN. GEN on its behalf said that, unlike SNT, it had a better logistical structure and offer. In March 2024, the station won the Top of Mind award for the most recognized TV channel in Paraguay.
MasterChef Celebrity Paraguay premiered on the channel on 19 May 2025, by initiative of independent producers Christian Chena and Gustavo Coronel. == Programming ==