SVG-TV started broadcasting on March 2, 1980.[2] In the mid-1980s it took part in a six-island project financed by IPDC.[3]
Unlike its competitors, SVG-TV is the only channel that broadcasts its signal over-the-air.[4] By the early 2000s, the channel was affiliated to CBS, as well as having agreements with CNN and the Barbadian Caribbean Media Corporation.[1] Main programmes at the time included the news, Jamz TV produced by sister radio station Hitz FM, Take Two, Sportweek and Inside Out. Key foreign programmes were Sunset+Vine's Gillette World Sport and the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes, aired live on Sundays in place of the 7pm news.[5] Most of the local programmes disappeared by the late 2000s, with only The Evening News and Sportweek surviving. Business Round Table replaced the slot left out by 60 Minutes.[6]
As of 2011, SVG-TV employed a staff of 40, having increased its local output, and with hopes that the broadcaster would reach the levels of the BBC and CNN.[7] For Emancipation Month that year (August) it introduced Chronicles of the Community: beyond the surface, about the facets of life in the country.[8] In 2013, it was carrying the Caribbean Professional League, for which it had paid a sum between US$3,000 and 5,000 without sponsorship agreements.[9]
Since Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is one of the few countries in the world that recognize Taiwan as the legitimate Chinese government, SVG-TV has routinely received foreign support from Taiwan. On January 17, 2019, SVG-TV signed an agreement to air the Taiwanese drama series The New World, produced by Taiwan Television.[10]