TEKO TV (ТЕКО ТВ) was the first private television station in Yugoslavia, founded in 1989 in Štip (now North Macedonia) by Mile Kokotov and Petar Varadinov .^[1]

In 1990, at the request of Kiro Gligorov, himself from Štip, the station took an active role in the promotion in favor of the independence of North Macedonia, which was held successfully on 8 September. After the success of TEKO TV's experimental broadcasts, many private television stations opened in the country.^[2]