Education Channel TV4 formerly "Government Information Services Limited" (Our TV4), "The National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago" (NCC4), "The Information Channel" (TIC) and "AVM Television", is a television station serving Trinidad and Tobago on Channels 4 & 16 with its studios located at TIC Building, Lady Young Road, Morvant, Trinidad and Tobago. History 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. In 1990 AVM Caribbean Ltd went on to become AVM Television. However, before commencement of commercial transmission, the Morvart complex was looted during the 1990 attempted coup resulting in loss of equipment. 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. Cable feeds from the Sci-Fi Channel and the USA Network was provided occasionally on weekends after station sign-off. Although the station had some market share, it was largely unprofitable due to insufficient advertising support and the passing of its main founder Dale Kolasingh. Unable to maintain operations, by February 1997 AVM was acquired by the state and merged with the then state owned International Communications Network (ICN) and re-branded "The Information Channel" (TIC). This move was to expand the state's range of educational and information programming as part of an effort to fulfill distance education plans. Cable feeds from the Wisdom Channel and CCTV News China was provided after station sign-off. As a restructuring initiative by the state, The International Communications Network was itself re-branded to the National Broadcasting Network (NBN) in 1999. 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. As the years passed, the station and by extension NBN continued to suffer heavy financial losses. A decision was made by the state, and on January 15, 2005,