SVG-TV

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FoundedMarch 2, 1980;44 years ago (1980-03-02)

SVG-TV is the national television station of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, owned by SVGBC. The station's main transmitter broadcasts on channel 9, with several other low-powered relay stations (7, 10, 11, 13 and 14). [1]

History

SVG-TV started broadcasting on March 2, 1980. [2] In the mid-1980s it took part in a six-island project financed by IPDC. [3]

Unlike its competitors, SVG-TV is the only channel that broadcasts its signal over-the-air. [4] By the early 2000s, the channel was affiliated to CBS, as well as having agreements with CNN and the Barbadian Caribbean Media Corporation. [1] Main programmes at the time included the news, Jamz TV produced by sister radio station Hitz FM, Take Two, Sportweek and Inside Out. Key foreign programmes were Sunset+Vine's Gillette World Sport and the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes , aired live on Sundays in place of the 7pm news. [5] Most of the local programmes disappeared by the late 2000s, with only The Evening News and Sportweek surviving. Business Round Table replaced the slot left out by 60 Minutes. [6]

As of 2011, SVG-TV employed a staff of 40, having increased its local output, and with hopes that the broadcaster would reach the levels of the BBC and CNN. [7] For Emancipation Month that year (August) it introduced Chronicles of the Community: beyond the surface, about the facets of life in the country. [8] In 2013, it was carrying the Caribbean Professional League, for which it had paid a sum between US$3,000 and 5,000 without sponsorship agreements. [9]

Since Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is one of the few countries in the world that recognize Taiwan as the legitimate Chinese government, SVG-TV has routinely received foreign support from Taiwan. On January 17, 2019, SVG-TV signed an agreement to air the Taiwanese drama series The New World, produced by Taiwan Television. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 SVGTV, your national station...
  2. ↑ SVGTV - About
  3. ↑ Les Nouvelles de L'Unesco (in French). Unesco. 1985. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  4. ↑ St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Sixth National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity
  5. ↑ SVGTV's programmes at a glance.
  6. ↑ SVGTV's programmes at a glance.
  7. ↑ SVGTV celebrates its 31st anniversary
  8. ↑ SVGTV digs deep into the community
  9. ↑ SVGBC: We are doing a favour carrying CPL
  10. ↑ Taiwanese drama series to be aired on SVGTV
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