Public Television of Armenia
Armenian Public TV/1TV
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| Type | Broadcast radio, television and online |
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| Country | Armenia |
| Owner | Public TV |
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Launch date
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1956 (television) |
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Official website
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www |
Public Television of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի հանրային հեռուստաընկերություն, 1TV), Hayastani Hanrayin herrustaynkerut’yun; ARMTV or APMTV, is Armenia's public television station that began transmissions in 1956.
Armenia Public Television dates back to September 5, 1955 when the USSR Council of Ministers made the decision to construct 27 programme centres and five transmission stations in the Union Republics. On 29 November 1956, the date of Sovietization of Armenia, the first programme of Armenian television was transmitted.
The official opening of the Armenian television took place on February 9, 1957 as regular programmes began to air. Later that year on August 6, 1957 the first news programme was transmitted, titled the News of the Week. At first the news programme was not periodical, but by February, 1958 the news programme became periodical, which resulted in the creation of the news editorial office.
On October 13, 1957 the State Committee on Radio and Television Programmes of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic was formed. According to the decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet issued in December, 1970, The State Committee on Radio transmission and Television was renamed to the All-Union Republican State Committee on Television and Radio Transmission.
In March 1973 the television station began its preparations for the changeover to transmissions in colour. Engineers for a colour mobile station, TV production laboratory, video recording units were obtained to begin this process. On May 1, 1973 the station made its first colour transmission from Lenin Square for the May Day Parade. Initially, the colour programmes were transmitted only from the mobile station, from the large celebrations, concerts, sport events of the country. Starting from 1978 about 50 percent of the programmes of the first and the second Armenian channels were in colour. Starting in August, 1973, the first video recordings were broadcast, which made 70 percent of the programmes in 1978.
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