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Latvian Independent Television (Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija, LNT) was a major private television company in Latvia, founded in 1996. LNT featured TV series, news and entertainment programmes, airing 24 hours a day in Latvian.

The predecessors of LNT were the first private Latvian TV station - news channel NTV-5 launched on 4 May 1992, and the morning television channel PICCA TV which was launched in 1994 by entrepreneur Andrejs Ēķis. Both companies merged into LNT in autumn of 1996.

On 9 January 2012 it was announced that the channel would be bought by the media conglomerate Modern Times Group together with the Russian language channel TV5 and the Latvijas Mūzikas kanāls (now: Kanāls 2) for an undisclosed sum. The move was later approved by the Council of Competitiveness of Latvia on the condition that TV3, which MTG already owned, and LNT would retain independent news boards for at least five years.

In October 2013, channels LNT, TV5 and Kanāls 2 switched to 16:9 format (except for some programs until 2018, when the channel switched to HD quality). Since October 2017 the channel was a part of All Media Baltics (Now: TV3 Group), a company owned by investment firm Providence Equity Partners.

On 8 November 2019, the owners of the channel announced a change in the name and format of the channel, which was replaced on 1 March 2020 by TV3 Life, whose broadcast is oriented towards a female audience. The News Service of the LNT channel was reorganized and merged with the News Service of the TV3 channel. Also sister channel Kanāls 2 on 1 March 2020, become TV3 Mini and its broadcast is oriented towards children's audience.