Channel 7 or Channel 7 HD, fully known as Bangkok Broadcasting & Television Company Limited Channel 7 (Thai: สถานีโทรทัศน์ช่อง 7 เอชดี), is a Thai broadcast television network that was launched on November 27, 1967.
It is the first color television broadcast in mainland Southeast Asia. It is currently owned by the Royal Thai Army through Bangkok Broadcasting & Television. Its headquarters are located in Mo Chit, Chatuchak, Bangkok.
The channel was inaugurated in a ceremony on November 27, 1967 at 7:00 p.m. m. Bangkok time. It was presided over by the then Prime Minister of Thailand, Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn. The first program to air was the 1967 Miss Thailand pageant. Channel 7 was known at the time as "Bangkok Color Television Network" and was broadcast on channel 5. On January 1, 1972, it began broadcasting on the whole country.
On April 25, 2014, Channel 7 launched its high-definition television signal on its digital terrestrial television (DTT) system on channel 35. Three years later, on June 19, 2017, Channel 7 received authorization from the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to close its analog frequencies in the rest of the country, to replace them with its digital channels on DTT. Therefore, the network was expected to stop broadcasting in analog on January 1, 2018, but the process was postponed until May 16, 2018, and was finally completed on June 16.