Ho Chi Minh City Television

History

The old name of HCMC Television is Liberation Television that began broadcasting on May 1, 1975. Until April 30, 1975, the name is Saigon Television (Republic of Vietnam), founded in 1965, broadcast from February 2, 1966 to April 29, 1975. At the time, in Saigon, there are two different TV stations immediately adjacented in downtown: the TV station of the US military and Saigon TV. While in the South Vietnam there are five TV stations (Saigon, Cần Thơ, Huế, Nha Trang and Quy Nhơn), the television in the North Vietnam still in the testing period.

Operations

The station's main headquarter is located at the corner of Nguyen Thi Minh Khai and Dinh Tien Hoang Street. It also has a office in Ha Noi. HTV is broadcasting two analog channel: HTV7 and HTV9. The station is going to broadcast digital television by the end of 2013 with 2 to 3 frequency channels, broadcasts all 17 TV channels of HTV.

HTV7 and HTV9 also officially posted to the Vinasat-1 in 2005, now broadcast in all of the Southeast Asian countries and some of the Asian countries. HTV is broadcasting 17 channels:

Services

HTV has:

HTV's cable system has a lot of TV shows has the legitimate copyright, such as:

After the center building's inaugurate in early 2006, with modern equipment and technology, the TV station is gradually switching to digital television and good staffs. HTV is trying hard to become a powerful media company in Southeast Asia.

Contests

Awards

Sport contests