During the government of Pasqual Maragall, the municipal television system of Barcelona was launched, however, originally there were 10 different channels, one for each urban district of the city, on November 3, 1994, the city council decided to unify the ten channels into a single one called Barcelona Televisió with the aim of providing legal coverage to the local public television system, since the district television stations broadcast in an illegal situation as they did not have the respective official licenses.

[1] In 1997, the first reform of the channel was carried out, it began to broadcast public service programming aimed at a minority audience, which included debate programs, independent films, a cultural agenda and even newscasts aimed at immigrants residing in Barcelona.

[4] In 2014 BTV increased its coverage by assuming the management of the local public radio station, called Barcelona FM.

[6] In October 2019, the channel gained national and international notoriety by the live coverage of the demonstrations that took place in Barcelona in reaction to the judicial conviction of nine Catalan pro-independence leaders.

Additionally, the channel also broadcasts movies and sporting events of the local teams that play in the lower categories of Spanish football as CE Europa, UE Sant Andreu or UE Sants.