Vietnam Television (1966–75)

Vietnam Television (Vietnamese: Đài Truyền hình Việt Nam, abbreviated THVN[1]), also known as Saigon Television (Đài Truyền hình Sài Gòn) or Channel 9 (Đài số 9), was one of two national television broadcasters in South Vietnam from February 7, 1966, until just before the Fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975. It was the first television broadcaster in Vietnam.[2] It was operated by the Vietnamese Bureau of Television (Nha Vô tuyến Truyền hình Việt Nam), part of the General Department of Radio, Television, and Cinema (Tổng cuộc Truyền thanh, Truyền hình và Điện ảnh) in the Ministry of Propaganda.[3] Vietnam Television broadcast from the capital Saigon on channel 9 (4.5 MHz) in FCC-standard black and white.[2][4] The other national broadcaster was the English-language Armed Forces Vietnam Network or NWB-TV on channel 11.[5] Both channels used an airborne transmission relay system from airplanes flying at high altitudes, called Stratovision, as part of Operation Blue Eagle.

Vietnam Television Channel 9
Launched7 February 1966
Closed29 April 1975
Owned byRadio-Television Public Broadcasting Centre
Government of the Republic of Vietnam
CountrySouth Vietnam
Broadcast areaDomestic
Headquarters9 Hồng Thập tự Street, Saigon
Replaced byHTV (May 1, 1975)
Availability
Terrestrial
Over the air analogChannel 9

Vietnam Television's final programming aired the evening of April 29, 1975. The next day, the station was reconstituted as Saigon Liberation Television (Đài truyền hình Sài Gòn Giải phóng, SGTV) with a live broadcast of South Vietnamese President Dương Văn Minh's surrender. SGTV became Ho Chi Minh City Television on May 1, 1975.

  • Color filming units of THVN9 broadcasting a National Armed Forces Day parade, Saigon, June 16, 1971

See also

References
  1. Vietnam Cultural Profile: Television
  2. Tấn Đức (2008-12-15). "Buổi phát sóng truyền hình đầu tiên ở Việt Nam" [The first television broadcast in Vietnam]. E-info (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  3. THVN9
  4. Hà Đình Nguyên (2005-04-28). "'Đây là Đài Truyền hình Sài Gòn giải phóng...'". Thanh Niên (in Vietnamese). Ho Chi Minh City: Vietnam United Youth League. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
  5. Williams, Billy. "Television in Vietnam". Broadcasting in Vietnam During the War. Archived from the original on 2010-03-28.
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