„ТЕКО“- THE FIRST PRIVATE TELEVISION STATION IN THE BALKANS

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At the end of 1989, in Shtip, Macedonia, was started the first private television station in the former Yugoslavia, and the Balkans. It was "TEKO" TV, as a part of TEKO company, for production of electronic equipment, automation and telecommunications. The founders of this TV were Mile Kokotov and Petar Varadinov. Initially, the overall transmission equipment, antennas, switching equipment were made by Mile Kokotov, while the more sofisticated professional devices were purchased later. TEKO TV appeared at the time of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, with only 2 or 3 TV channels available for the citizens. They could only watch 2 or 3 TV broadcast programs from the state owned Macedonian television. So, the appearance of this private television was a real "boom". In that time, it was not easy at all.

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1990, may - article about TV TEKO in local newspaper

1990, june - article about TV TEKO in macedonian national daily newspaper "Vecher"

1990, november - article about TV TEKO in JPRS - Joint Publications Research Service - Telecommunications

1990, december - article about TV TEKO in croatian weekly magazine „Arena“ - Zagreb

1991, march - article about TV TEKO in macedonian national weekly magazine "Puls"

1991, march - article about TV TEKO in local newspaper

1993 in my office in TV TEKO

1993 with the new professional camera JVC KY-17B

2012, Victor Grozdanov, the last manager of macedonian media asociation "АPЕММ“ talks about TEKO TV in his interview.

1993, article about TEKO TV in „University of Miami“ - Channels of Communication are Opening in Eastern Europe

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