{{Infobox television station | callsign = SVG-TV | logo = | branding = | analog = | digital = 9 | affiliations = | founded = {{start date|1980|3|2}} | callsign_meaning = | former_callsigns = | country = VC | owner = SVGBC | former_affiliations = | erp = | website = http://watchsvgtv.com }} '''SVG-TV''' is the national television station of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, owned by SVGBC. The station's main transmitter broadcasts on channel 9, with several other low-powered relay stations (7, 10, 11, 13 and 14).<ref name="SVGTV">{{cite web |title=SVGTV, your national station... |url=http://www.svgbc.com/svgtv.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040618163539fw_/http://www.svgbc.com/svgtv.htm |archive-date=June 18, 2004}}</ref>
==History== SVG-TV started broadcasting on March 2, 1980.<ref>{{cite web |title=SVGTV - About |url=http://svg-tv.com/About.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712025230/http://svg-tv.com/About.html |archive-date=July 12, 2013}}</ref> In the mid-1980s it took part in a six-island project financed by IPDC.<ref>{{cite book |title=Les Nouvelles de L'Unesco |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Les_Nouvelles_de_L_Unesco/56IUwAePxR8C |access-date=23 January 2024 |date=1985 | publisher=Unesco |language=fr}}</ref>
Unlike its competitors, SVG-TV is the only channel that broadcasts its signal over-the-air.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sixth National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity |url=https://www.cbd.int/doc/nr/nr-06/vc-nr-06-en.pdf |publisher=Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |format=pdf |date=May 2019 |quote=There is one main television station, SVG TV and two cable channels, IKTV and VC3.}}</ref> By the early 2000s, the channel was affiliated to CBS, as well as having agreements with CNN and the Barbadian Caribbean Media Corporation.<ref name="SVGTV"/> Main programmes at the time included the news, ''Jamz TV'' produced by sister radio station Hitz FM, ''Take Two'', ''Sportweek'' and ''Inside Out''. Key foreign programmes were Sunset+Vine's ''Gillette World Sport'' and the CBS newsmagazine ''60 Minutes'', aired live on Sundays in place of the 7pm news.<ref>{{cite web |title=SVGTV's programmes at a glance |url=http://www.svgbc.com/svg%20tv%20programmes.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040623214655fw_/http://www.svgbc.com/svg%20tv%20programmes.htm |archive-date=June 23, 2004}}</ref> Most of the local programmes disappeared by the late 2000s, with only ''The Evening News'' and ''Sportweek'' surviving. ''Business Round Table'' replaced the slot left out by ''60 Minutes''.<ref>{{cite web |title=SVGTV's programmes at a glance |url=http://www.svgbc.com/svg_tv_programmes.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716171507fw_/http://www.svgbc.com/svg_tv_programmes.htm |archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref>
As of 2011, SVG-TV employed a staff of 40, having increased its local output, and with hopes that the broadcaster would reach the levels of the BBC and CNN.<ref>{{cite news |title=SVGTV celebrates its 31st anniversary |url=https://www.searchlight.vc/news/2011/03/11/svgtv-celebrates-its-31st-anniversary/ |work=Searchlight |date=March 11, 2011}}</ref> For Emancipation Month that year (August) it introduced ''Chronicles of the Community: beyond the surface'', about the facets of life in the country.<ref>{{cite news |title=SVGTV digs deep into the community |url=https://www.searchlight.vc/news/2011/08/09/svgtv-digs-deep-into-the-community/ |work=Searchlight |date=August 9, 2011}}</ref> In 2013, it was carrying the Caribbean Professional League, for which it had paid a sum between US$3,000 and 5,000 without sponsorship agreements.<ref>{{cite news |title=SVGBC: We are doing a favour carrying CPL |url=https://www.searchlight.vc/news/2013/08/13/svgbc-we-are-doing-a-favour-carrying-cpl/ |work=Searchlight |date=August 13, 2013}}</ref>
Since Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is one of the few countries in the world that recognize Taiwan as the legitimate Chinese government, SVG-TV has routinely received foreign support from Taiwan. On January 17, 2019, SVG-TV signed an agreement to air the Taiwanese drama series ''The New World'', produced by Taiwan Television.<ref>{{cite news |title=Taiwanese drama series to be aired on SVGTV |url=https://www.searchlight.vc/news/2019/01/25/taiwanese-drama-series-to-be-aired-on-svgtv/ |work=Searchlight |date=January 25, 2019}}</ref>
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Category:Television channels and stations established in 1980 Category:Organisations based in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines