Television Blong Vanuatu

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Television Blong Vanuatu (TBV) is a digital service that is now a joint business venture between BTC and Guilin CEKE Communication Equipment Co Ltd, a Chinese private company that is specialized in digital television. Their studios and offices are located in Port Vila.

This broadcasting station is government-owned and affiliated. [1] [2]

It was established in 1993 [3] with the help of Radio France Overseas (RFO) and used to broadcast six hours daily in French and English. This followed an experimental service that started in an unexpected manner in July 1992. [4]

RFO equipment was installed at the offices of Vanitel and started with a small schedule following the 1992 Summer Olympics, broadcasting four hours a day. [4]

Now Television Blong Vanuatu broadcasts in the Chinese Digital TV standard DTMB (Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast) which is not compatible with any of the TVs used by the local residents. Customers are required to purchase a Set Top Box from the VBTC in order to see their channels, most of which are Chinese.

Telsat Pacific is a locally owned DVB-T2 UHF Pay TV service that also broadcasts Free-to-Air local channels such as 1NOMO (Project of Telsat Pacific) and KAM TV (Community Akses Media produced by Mark Lowen) which can be received by any Australian or New Zealand standard Digital TV. (www.telsat.vu) The station shut off its analog TV signals on October 15, 2016.

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References

  1. "TBV – VBTC" . Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  2. "Television Blong Vanuatu". TV Online. Live Television. Online TV Stations. Watch Live TV Channels. Television-planet.tv. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  3. Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación de España (November 2007). "Vanuatu" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  4. 1 2 Thomas, W.; Khushu, O.P.; Rutstein, D. (September 1993). "Pacific Regional Television Survey Project – 352lRASl21 (PAC TEL)". UNESCO. Retrieved 13 February 2024.