Hoyte-Blackman Television

NBTV Channel 9 was formally inaugurated on July 30, 1994 at the Mandela Avenue in Georgetown, home to former government minister Noel Blackman, the namesake of the station. Initially, it ran for six hours a day (4pm to 10pm) with plans to increase at the short-term. The channel's launch came at a time of economic depression in Guyana, with no recovery planned for the coming times.^[1]

Mark Benschop left the station in June 2001 due to disagreements with the station's editorial guidelines.^[2]

The station was renamed Hoyte-Blackman Television (HBTV) on January 1, 2004 in memory of Hugh Desmond Hoyte who was the president of the PNCR between 1985 and 1992.^[3] In 2010, it was one of the stations that had already picked up the rights to air local comedy series Mori J'Von.^[4]

On July 11, 2024, HBTV's Facebook account was rebranded to GUY TV 9, the new Facebook page would include higher quality broadcasts, a new logo, more professional branding and management, and even a new news segment. Broadcasts on VHF 9 changed to retransmissions of American channels such as Food Network and TBS with intermissions of GUY TV 9 news broadcasts.