Kano was formerly a part of the Northern Region, and was served by a relay station of Radio Kaduna Television, being installed in February 1963.[1] On 17 October 1976, NTV Kano started broadcasting (already in colour) on VHF channel 5 in Kano, channel 7 in Birnin Kudu and channel 8 in Arbus to cover the entire state, as well as parts of Borno and Bauchi. The signal was also receivable in parts of southern Niger via overspill.[1]
With the establishment of the Nigerian Television Authority in 1977, Kano was placed inside Zone D, together with NTA Kaduna and NTA Jos (the former Benue-Plateau Television) with Kaduna being the regional Zonal Network Centre. As of 1979, NTA Kaduna still produced a weekly half-hour programme aiming at Kano, Focus on Kano State.[1]
In the early 1980s, the station gained new studios and new trained equipment, in order to produce programmes for the Network Service, as well as content exchange with other NTA stations.[2] Between 2 October 1977 and 6 June 2003, the station aired 1,176 Hindi films, the first of which being Ann Bonn.[3]
The station installed a new transmitter in December 2000.[4] Plans were enacted in September 2008 to urge the station to become a Network Centre.[5]
