Regional Channel The predecessor of
VTV Can Tho is
Can Tho Television Station, established on 3 December 1966. This is the second television station in Vietnam after
Saigon Television Station established in 1965. At first,
Can Tho Station was broadcast via an airplane broadcasting system like Saigon Television Station, until 11 November 1968, it officially broadcast on frequency band 7. After the reunification of Vietnam, Can Tho Television Station quickly went into operation to promptly meet the audiovisual and cultural needs of the people in the Mekong Delta. The technical staff and engineers of Can Tho Television Station at that time started to design and convert the broadcasting system and central equipment from the FCC system left by the Republic of Vietnam regime to the OIRT system. The Military Region 9 Information Regiment supported electronic components to design mobile recording boats and mobile recording vehicles to help the unit. After that, the technical staff of the Station continued to design and convert from the OIRT system to SECAM III B color broadcasting and to the PAL - DK system, the equipment also gradually switched to UMATIC and BETACAM broadcasting systems. In 1980, television in Can Tho had 2 broadcasting channels: channel 11 VHF and channel 6 VHF. In 1983-1984, Can Tho Television sent staff and engineers to help
Cambodia establish the
National Television Station, build a system from the center to the broadcasting station and take charge of training technical staff and reporters. In 1984, Can Tho Television also helped Da Nang Television switch from OIRT to SECAM III B broadcasting. During these years, radio and television stations in the southwestern provinces also began to take shape. Can Tho Television also sent a team of technical staff to help local stations install central equipment, transmitters and help train a team of reporters, editors, etc. In 1992, Can Tho Television Station became a regional television station under Vietnam Television and broadcast on channel 6, with the initial logo being THCT, then CTV since 1997. At the end of 2003, Can Tho Television Station moved its headquarters to No. 215, 30/4 Street, Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City. On 1 January 2004, Can Tho Television Station had a new name: Vietnam Television Center in Can Tho City, with the logo CVTV. On 1 September 2004, CVTV2 channel was officially launched to serve the Khmer ethnic community living in the Southwest region, with a duration of 18/7. This channel also broadcasts general programs like CVTV1, but devotes part of its time to broadcasting Khmer programs. In 2010, VTV Can Tho changed the frequency and transmitter of CVTV1 channel from channel 6 VHF to channel 49 UHF. On 5 June 2011, CVTV changed its identity to VTV Can Tho. Channels CVTV1 and CVTV2 were also renamed VTV Can Tho and 2, respectively. By 2013, VTV Can Tho 1 channel had its broadcasting time increased to 24/7. On 1 January 2016, implementing the National Press Plan, the national television channel of the Southern region - VTV9 was formed on the basis of merging VTV Can Tho 1 channel with
VTV9 region, while VTV Can Tho 2 was converted to VTV5 Southwest channel, serving the spiritual life of the Khmer ethnic community in Vietnam.
National channel On 8 September 2022, according to Decree No. 60/2022/ND-CP of the
Government on restructuring VTV's affiliated units, the VTV Center in the Southern region was divided into the VTV Center in Ho Chi Minh City and the VTV Center in the Mekong Delta. In which, the VTV Center in the Southwest region is responsible for producing programs for VTV Can Tho channel and other VTV channels. On 6 October 2022, the Ministry of Information and Communications licensed Vietnam Television to produce a national television channel in the Mekong Delta called VTV Can Tho. VTV Can Tho channel will be tested on air from 05:30 on 10 October 2022, and then officially aired from 18:00 on 13 October 2022. From 21 November – 18 December 2022, during the
FIFA World Cup 2022, VTV Can Tho channel will temporarily increase its broadcasting time to 24/7. The channel's general control is currently located at the headquarters of Vietnam Television in Hanoi; the Vietnam Television Center in the Southwest region in Can Tho is responsible for providing programs to the general control in Hanoi. The signal from here is transmitted widely throughout the provinces and cities in the Southwest region and is covered on many different television infrastructures to serve audiences nationwide.
VTV10 From 00:00 on March 30 2026, to improve the quality for audience services and reposition nation promotion channels, VTV Can Tho is officially changed to VTV10. == Leaders of VTV10 ==