ZBC TV, also known as ZTV, is Zimbabwe's public free to air television network that is fully owned and operated by the state broadcaster.

[4] Back then, the station was broadcasting in black and white until 1982, when it upgraded to full colour using PAL B system.

In the late 90s, the country's main opposition party MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai was launched.

[9] The station was initially carried in a 100km radius from a single transmitter in Harare but later extended its signal to Bulawayo in May 1998 with help from a South African company.

[10] ZBC shut down Joy TV for the first time on 4 September 1998 due to alleged payment of airtime fees.

[13] In 2004, ZBC announced a new TV channel called National Television or NTV, a brainchild of the then information minister, Jonathan Moyo and was said that it will be broadcasting from Montrose Studios in Bulawayo.

International and regional content from the neighbouring South Africa, USA, UK, Australia, and Korea is also available.

Many local viewers are complaining about the station's poor broadcasting standard and are ditching it for foreign content distributors like Netflix and DStv.

ZBC TV broadcasts mainly from the studios in Pockets Hill, in a suburb of Highlands, in Harare.