What is now the Broadcasting Services Division of the MCIT was formerly the
Samoa Broadcasting Corporation, which operated
Televise Samoa/SBC TV One, Samoa's first television station. The television channel was put for privatization in 2007, while the sale was completed on 21 July 2008. The BSD of the MCIT submitted a plan to launch its own television channel on 21 July 2018 as part of the country's plan to introduce digital television. It was approved in 2019. In September 2022, the channel suspended its operations from the digital terrestrial platform and was merely showing a test card. It was, however, ordered to have it restored. 2AP-TV9 received a mobile journalism unit donated from Australia's ABC in October 2023. TV9 served as the host broadcaster for CHOGM 2024. In June 2025, it improved its technical capacities with the installation of an AEQ XPEAK system. ==Programming==