What is CCN TV6?
CCN TV6 is a free-to-air television station in Trinidad and Tobago, owned by Caribbean Communications Network. The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago lists “C.C.N. Television Limited” as the concessionaire operating “CCNTV6” on “VHF 6, UHF 18, 19”.[3]
The station's own site gives its address as 33-35 Independence Square, Port of Spain, carries the tagline “Revealing Facts, Provoking Opinions”, and prints a footer reading “1991 - 2026 Caribbean Communications Network”.[1] Its About page describes the transmission arrangement in more detail: an analogue NTSC 525 system on “Channel 6 and 18 in Trinidad, and Channel 19 in Tobago”, a 25-kilowatt Channel 6 transmitter covering most of Trinidad and a 1-kilowatt Channel 18 transmitter serving the north-west.[2]
The same holding company publishes the Trinidad Express, whose About page names “Caribbean Communications Network (CCN)” as its publisher.[4]
What does CCN TV6 cover?
The station's About page describes TV6 News as its principal programme, running one hour nightly at 7 p.m. across five segments covering news, sports, international news, weather and special features; sport is therefore a fixed element of the main bulletin rather than a separate strand alone.[2]
Beyond the bulletin, the station's site carries a “Watch TV6 Sports” section and lists a programme titled Sports Personality among its local output.[1] The About page also records that the station has produced local programming, including the drama series Westwood Park, and sports content for ESPN.[2] The reference to sports content for ESPN is the station's own account and the page carries no date for it.
The sister newspaper covers the same ground in print, with Local, Regional and World sports sub-sections on trinidadexpress.com.[4]
How large is CCN TV6's audience?
No audited television audience currency for Trinidad and Tobago could be retrieved for this page. The station publishes two kinds of claim about its own reach, and both are reported here as its claims.
The first is technical coverage. The About page states that the station's facilities reach 95 per cent of Trinidad's population and 75 per cent of Tobago's, which is a statement about transmission footprint.[2] The regulator's listing confirms the three frequencies but publishes no coverage figure.[3]
The second is a share claim: “We have topped the share of the national viewing audience in 15 surveys conducted over the last four years”, with the surveys neither named nor dated on the page as retrieved.[2] The same page describes TV6 News as the most-watched television programme in Trinidad and Tobago; that too is the station's own statement. Reporters Without Borders, which puts the country at rank 32 of 180 with a score of 74.70 in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index, names newspapers rather than television as the country's main outlets.[5]
Since when has CCN TV6 existed?
The station's own About page states that “CCN TV6 began broadcasting on September 15th, 1991 with viewing hours from 6:00 to 10:00p.m. daily”.[2] The footer on the station's current site prints “1991 - 2026 Caribbean Communications Network”, which is consistent with that year.[1] Both are the operator's own statements; no independent source giving the day and month could be retrieved for this page.
The About page as retrieved describes an analogue NTSC 525 system and dates its audience claim to “the last four years” without saying which four, so parts of that page are plainly older than the site around it.[2] This page reports the page's content and does not date it beyond what it says.
What is current is the licence. The Telecommunications Authority's television broadcasters listing records C.C.N. Television Limited as the holder of the concession operating CCNTV6.[3]
Why does CCN TV6 matter in Trinidad and Tobago's sport?
It matters because free-to-air television concessions in Trinidad and Tobago are few. The regulator's listing of free-to-air television concessionaires names C.C.N. Television Limited operating CCNTV6, Guardian Media Limited operating CNC3, TTT Limited operating TTT, and the Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago operating the Parliament Channel.[3] A national sport occasion carried on one of those reaches households without a subscription.
It matters second because sport is built into the station's main news hour rather than confined to a separate programme, and the station carries a standing sports section on its site.[2][1]
It matters third because it sits in the same group as one of the two newspapers a monitoring body names as the country's main outlets, so a single company's sport desk reaches both a print and a broadcast audience.[4][5]
References
- CCN TV6 — tv6tnt.com home page (address, tagline, footer “1991 - 2026 Caribbean Communications Network”, Watch TV6 Sports). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- CCN TV6 — About (launch 15 September 1991; transmission and coverage claims; TV6 News; audience share claim; ESPN content). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago — Television Broadcasters (free-to-air concessionaires and the companies holding them). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Trinidad Express — About (Caribbean Communications Network as publisher; sports sub-sections). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Reporters Without Borders — 2026 World Press Freedom Index, Trinidad and Tobago (rank 32 of 180; score 74.70; media landscape and political context). Accessed 2026-09-23.