Vietnam Television, officially branded as VTV, is the national television broadcaster of Vietnam. Under the control of Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam,[1][2] it is tasked with "propagating the views of the Party, policies, laws of the government, improve people's knowledge and serve the spiritual life of the people".[3]
VTV was established with technical assistance and training from Cuba on 7 September 1970.[4][5] Color television was experimented in 1977 and adopted the French SECAM standard and fully implemented in 1986.[6]