SVG-TV

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]

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Channels	Digital: 9
Branding	SVG-TV
Ownership
Owner	SVGBC
History
Founded	March 2, 1980; 45 years ago (1980-03-02)
Links
Website	https://watchsvgtv.com/

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]