Vietnam Television Network

For the current national broadcaster, see Vietnam Television.
Vietnam Television
Channel 9
CountrySouth Vietnam
Broadcast areaSouth Vietnam, Cambodia
Headquarters9 Hồng Thập Tự[note 1] Avenue, Saigon
Ownership
OwnerRadio-Television Public Broadcasting Centre
National Government
Joint General Staff
History
Launched7 February 1966
Closed29 April 1975
Replaced bySGTV (May 1, 1975)
Availability
Terrestrial
Over the air analogChannel 9[note 2]

Vietnam Television (Vietnamese: Đài Truyền-hình Việtnam,[1][2] abbreviated THVN[3]), sometimes also unofficially known as the National Television (Đài Truyền-hình Quốc-gia[1]), Saigon Television (Đài Truyền-hình Sàigòn[1]) or Channel 9 (Đài số 9, THVN9), 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.[4]

THVN9 was operated by the Vietnamese Bureau of Television (Nha Vô-tuyến Truyền-hình Việtnam[1]), part of the General Department of Radio, Television, and Cinema (Tổng-cuộc Truyền-thanh Truyền-hình và Điện-ảnh[1]) in the Ministry of Propaganda.[5] Vietnam Television broadcast from the capital Saigon on channel 9 (4.5 MHz) in FCC-standard black and white.[4][6] However, from 1972, all important events were broadcast in color as standard.[7]

The other national broadcaster was the English-language Armed Forces Vietnam Network or NWB-TV on channel 11.[8] Both channels used an airborne transmission relay system from airplanes flying at the high altitudes, called Stratovision, as part of Operation Blue Eagle.


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  1. ^ a b c d e Old spelling in Vietnamese
  2. ^ "Vietnam Cultural Profile: Television". Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Việt Nam, Rockefeller Foundation. Archived from the original on 2011-02-18. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  3. ^ Vietnam Cultural Profile: Television
  4. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ THVN9
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ South Vietnamese Armed Forces Day 1971 & 1973
  8. ^ Williams, Billy. "Television in Vietnam". Broadcasting in Vietnam During the War. Archived from the original on 2010-03-28.