TV channels Mongolia

Mongolian television has grown from a single state channel into one of the liveliest media fields in the region: a public broadcaster with a whole family of services, dozens of commercial national networks, and dedicated news, business, movie and learning channels - all of them following events across a vast and sparsely populated country.

How television came to Mongolia

Television reached Mongolia in 1967, when Mongolian National Television began regular broadcasting from Ulaanbaatar. Covering the steppe required relay transmitters and later satellite distribution, and for more than two decades the state channel was the only picture in the country. The democratic changes of 1990 opened the airwaves: commercial stations appeared through the 1990s, cable spread in the capital, and in 2005 the state service was reformed into the public broadcaster MNB.

The public broadcaster: MNB

MNB - Mongolian National Broadcaster - heads the public family: alongside the main general channel it runs MNB World for international audiences, MNB Sport and the news service MNB Mongoliin Medee. The work of the State Great Khural is covered by Parliament TV, and the great national occasions - above all the Naadam festival with its wrestling, horse racing and archery - are carried to every aimag by the public network.

Commercial national networks

Private national television is broad. TV9 was one of the country's first commercial stations and still anchors general programming; beside it stand TV5, TV8, NTV, SBN, Star TV, C1, Central TV, GTV, Global TV, ONTV, Seven Channel, Suld TV, TenGer TV, TM TV, TV 25, Ulzii TV, Malchin TV and the culturally minded Soyon Gegeeruulegch TV. UBS is the Ulaanbaatar city broadcaster, following the capital that now holds nearly half the country's population.

News and business

The news side is served by Eagle News and the Mongolian News Channel, while business coverage comes from the local franchises Bloomberg TV Mongolia and CNBC Mongolia - a sign of how far the market has matured.

Movies and learning

Films have their own shelf with MovieBox, MN+ and Cinema, Asian entertainment comes from AsianBox, and educational programming from Edutainment TV. Together with the public and commercial networks they make a television landscape that covers everything from herder news to the capital's stock prices.