The Channel 7 or Channel 7 HD, fully known as Bangkok Broadcasting & Television Company Limited Channel 7 ( th, สถานีโทรทัศน์ช่อง 7 เอชดี), is a Thai

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television network that was launched on 27 November 1967. It is the first colour television broadcast in Mainland Southeast Asia. It is currently owned by the

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through Bangkok Broadcasting & Television. Its headquarters are located in Mo Chit, Chatuchak,

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History

The channel was launched in a ceremony on 27 November 1967 at 7:00 pm

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. It was presided over by the then Prime Minister of Thailand Field Marshal

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. The first programme to air was the 1967

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Pageant. Channel 7 was known back then as "Bangkok Colour Television Network", airing on channel 5 and was the country's first colour television station using PAL Colour. On 1 January 1972, it started broadcasting nationwide. In 1974 it switched frequencies to UHF Channel 7, swapping with Royal Thai Army Television. Channel 7 launched its

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feed on 25 April 2014 on its digital terrestrial television system (DTT) on channel 35. Three years later, on 19 June 2017, Channel 7 was given authorisation from the

National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC, th, คณะกรรมการกิจการกระจายเสียง กิจการโทรทัศน์ และกิจการโทรคมนา� ...

to shut down its analogue frequencies in the rest of the country, in order to replace them with its digital channels on DTT. Thus, the network was expected to stop broadcasting on analogue 1 January 2018, but the process was postponed to 16 May 2018 and eventually completed on 16 June.

Programming

Notable sports

* Channel 7 Boxing Stadium *

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PBS Kids

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