TV9 (Samoa)
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TV9 (rendered in digital terrestrial television metadata as Government Channel TV9) is Samoa's government-owned television station. Established in 2019, the station falls under the Broadcasting Services Division of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Being a public broadcaster by nature, it has to provide essential emergency information in cases of extreme weather. The station is a sister of 2AP, Samoa's oldest radio station.
History
What is now the Broadcasting Services Division of the MCIT was formerly the Samoa Broadcasting Corporation, which operated Televise Samoa/SBC TV One, Samoa's first television station. The television channel was put for privatization in 2007, while the sale was completed on 21 July 2008.
The BSD of the MCIT submitted a plan to launch its own television channel on 21 July 2018 as part of the country's plan to introduce digital television. It was approved in 2019.
In September 2022, the channel suspended its operations from the digital terrestrial platform and was merely showing a test card. It was, however, ordered to have it restored.
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