[1] In the 1970s, radio and television broadcast veterans Bobby Thomas, Bryan Waller, and brothers Arnold & Dale Kolasingh set up Audio Visual Media (AVM) Caribbean Ltd, a production house that focused on producing commercials and local current affairs programmes.

On January 15 1992, AVM Television was launched and became the second privately owned broadcast station in Trinidad and Tobago, the first being the Caribbean Communications Network Channels 6 & 18 (CCN TV6).

AVM was best known for its American based Public Service Announcement commercials and local programming such as Good Morning T&T, The Midday Show, Head Start, On Track, Caribbean Sports Digest, Words, Books & Letters, Cross Country, Painting for Pleasure and Distance Learning TV.

Because of continual financial losses by the parent company NBN, dated programming from Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) was shifted to The Information Channel in an effort to gain some form of market share but this move failed.

In 2011, under the management of the Government Information Services Limited (GISL), the station was re-branded Channel 4 – OUR TV broadcasting cultural, sport and state programming.

[3] On August 28, 2020, it was announced that Channels 4 & 16 was assigned to the Ministry of Education and be re-launched[4] for the virtual re-opening of the New Academic Year 2020-2021 amid school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.