Country | Malta |
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Programming | |
Language(s) | Maltese |
Picture format | 576i, 1080i |
Ownership | |
Owner | One Productions (Labour Party) |
History | |
Launched | March 1994 |
Former names | Super One Television |
Links | |
Website | one.com.mt |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Free-to-air | 43 (UHF) |
GO | 103 |
Melita | 103 |
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The station is administered and broadcasts from its studios in Marsa.
The station also has an Outside Broadcasting Unit, which it first used during the Malta Labour Party's May Day celebrations on 1 May 1997.
One TV also won the first two editions of the Television Station of the year awards in 2006 & 2007.
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