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Malta's first television service, launched on 29 September 1962, lives on today as TVM - the national channel of the public broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services and the most-watched station in the country.

Operating from Gwardamanġa in Pietà, TVM broadcasts mainly in Maltese, with English as its secondary language. Its schedule mixes news, sport, drama, entertainment, magazine programming and children's programmes, together with the major one-off and calendar events of the Maltese islands.

News and Current Affairs

TVM's newsroom is the only major television news service in Malta not produced by a political party's media apparatus - the country's other two big networks, One and NET Television, belong to the Labour and Nationalist parties respectively.

The channel's schedule has been anchored by the breakfast programme TVAM, combining news and current affairs on weekday mornings, and the main evening newscast L-Aħbarijiet at 20:00, with short news updates through the day. Much of PBS's additional news and current-affairs output now airs on the sister channel TVM+.

From Malta Television Service to PBS

The service began on 29 September 1962 as the Malta Television Service, the country's first television channel, with technical backing from Britain's Rediffusion group. In 1975, following a strike at the broadcaster, television was nationalised and the service became part of Xandir Malta, the forerunner of today's Public Broadcasting Services. Colour broadcasts arrived in July 1981.

Today PBS operates TVM alongside TVM+ and TVMSport+. In 2021 the corporation reorganised its television services, giving TVM+ a larger role in news and current affairs and refocusing the flagship channel on drama and family entertainment.

Drama, Entertainment and the Islands' Calendar

TVM's grid combines Maltese drama and entertainment with magazine programmes, children's content and sport. National occasions and calendar events of the Maltese islands remain part of the channel's live coverage.

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