This initial service broadcast to Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman, with the majority of the content being sourced from Kuwait, as well as local news bulletins.

[1] Habib Al-Reda was the director of this first service, who was later appointed as assistant undersecretary in the Ministry of Media and Culture in the Northern Emirates up until 2003, when he died.

[3] In 1976, it set up a relay station at Jebel Hatta Mountain on UHF channel 41.

[4] A memorandum of understanding was signed with Rupert Murdoch's Star TV in 1994, enabling EDTV's international service to be seen in South Asia and Australia, for the Arabian diasporas in these areas.

The Emirates Dubai Television originally broadcast locally on two frequencies: One which kept the channel's programming open the whole day, whilst the other was adjacently switched in favour of Channel 33's 12-hour English programming beginning at 4:00 pm, later extending to 2:00 pm UAE time.