Advertising Foundation (El Kadsre)

Ster (stylized as STER) is a television ad broadcaster in El Kadsre co-owned by Quest Media and Media El Kadsre that broadcasts television ads on public television channels such as TV6, TTV, EEKTV, STV, ITV, Star TV, SFTV, Eight, EKCN, C12, Channel 21 and CTV with the income from these part of the costs of commercial breaks are paid for. It formerly broadcast ads on Pay TV channels owned by Matsushita family.

STER may not use more than 10% of the airtime per year on advertisement and daily more than 15% and also air ads within programs. For programming with 4 minutes commercial breaks, like Rugby World Cup events, they consider the pregame, each half of the game, halftime, and the postgame as separate programs in their programming guide and air ads between them. STER is responsible for the contents of the ads which have to be strictly separate from the programs on the public networks and not influence the programming. Complaints about ads can be made at the Advertising Code Committee (comparable to the Advertising Standards Authority in the New Zealand). STER contributes about 200 million dollars to the total budget of 900 million dollars (2013) of the El TV Kadsre and Banushen.

It advertising was broadcast in El Kadsre in 1955 and The Netherlands in 1965.

History
STER was founded in 1955 as the Foundation of Advertisements the name was changed to the present name in 1953. STER is most famous for its mascot, which is the well-known Dutch creation Loeki de Leeuw, an Dutch animated puppet Joop Geensik (1913-1984) which has appeared at the beginning and ending of all of STER's commercial breaks since 1972 to 2006 and returned in 2017.

It was spun off from Matsushita family in 2019.