

Since 2003, all above channels have also been made available via satellite. VTV9: South favor, started on 1 October 2007.VTV7: Youth and education, in preparation.VTV5: Introduced on Februto serve the ethnic minority communities in Vietnam.


In addition, each major city and most of the 64 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 centers are located in Ho Chi Minh City, Huế, Da Nang, Phu Yen, Nha Trang, Cần Thơ, Vinh and Tam Dao. And by 1990, VTV viewers had two national TV channels to choose from. Vietnam Television became an official name on April 30, 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 introduced in 1978. VTV was established with technical assistance and training from Cuba on September 7, 1970, in Hanoi. The first television broadcasts in Vietnam were in the 1960s when the United States set up two channels (one Vietnamese language and one in English in Saigon).
