NCN Television (Guyanan TV channel)

NCN Television is the television service of the National Communications Network, Guyana. Created in 1988 as an independent government outlet, it was merged with GBC in 2004 and became a part of the current NCN.

NCN TV's predecessor, Guyana Television Company, was licensed in October 1987,^[1] going on air on January 1, 1988, broadcasting an experimental service for an hour a week on Sundays using a 400-watt transmitter donated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on VHF channel 10.^[2] A merger of the three government media units was set for late March 1992.^[3]

An assessment taken by the National Frequency Management Unit in 1992 said that GTV was the only television station in Guyana to comply with technical and programming requirements.^[4] In 1996, with the release of an official VHF frequency plan for Georgetown by the NFMU, GTV planned to move to channel 11, a decision pending approval of the Broadcast Authority Bill. The station's executive chairman Earl Bousquet said that the move in frequencies was to prevent co-channel interference, as Neil Blackman's NBTV occupied channel 9.^[5]

On March 1 2004, GTV and GBC merged to become NCN.^[6]