It was founded on 15 June 1994 as the first permanent commercial television broadcasting network in the country, although television had previously been introduced temporarily in October 1991 to broadcast the Rugby World Cup as well as Cricket World Cup.

Fiji TV was listed as a public company in 1996 on the Suva Stock Exchange, now known as the South Pacific Stock Exchange.

Fiji TV also owned subsidiary company Media Niugini Limited, which operates Papua New Guinea's only commercial free-to-view channel, EM TV, but later sold it off to the Papua New Guinea Government-owned Telikom PNG Limited in 2016.

Following the passage of the Media Industry Development Decree 2010 by the military regime, Hari Punja resigned from the board of Fiji Television.

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