VTV2: Science and education channel broadcast 24/7.It is considered one of seven must-carry national channels, and it must be carried free-to-air by all satellite and cable providers in Vietnam. An HD version of VTV1 was launched on 31 March 2014. VTV1 initially broadcast on 7 September 1970. Music and movies are the only fields that largely fall outside its format. The channel also broadcasts live important national events and parliament meetings. VTV1: News and current affairs channel 24/7.The overnight timeslot returned to these channels as of 00:00. īetween 19 March and 30 April 2020, as a safety precaution due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, Vietnam Television temporarily suspended the overnight timeslot on most channels, with the exception of VTV1, VTV4 and VTV7, and limited the broadcast time to 19 hours per day. In addition, each major city and most of the 51 provinces have their own television stations. The percentage was considerably less in rural areas, but even the most remote village cafe has a TV and video or DVD player. By 2003, more than 80% of all urban households owned a television set. There are transmitters in most outlying areas of the country. Programming is relayed nationwide via a network of provincial and municipal television stations. VTV's regional broadcasting centres are located in Ho Chi Minh City, Huế, Da Nang, Nha Trang (formerly in Phú Yên), and Cần Thơ. And by 1990, VTV viewers had two national TV channels to choose from as VTV2 was launched and that year switched to PAL. Vietnam Television became an official name on 30 April 1987. During the Vietnam War it broadcast intermittently from a mountainous region.Īfter reunification in 1975, the former US-run stations in the south became part of the national network, and broadcasting was extended to the entire country.Ĭolor television was experimented in 1977 and adopted the French SECAM standard and fully implemented in 1986. VTV was established with technical assistance and training from Cuba on 7 September 1970, in Hanoi, as a department of Voice of Vietnam.
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