AzTV or Azerbaijan Television ( az, Azərbaycan Televiziyası) is a state-controlled national television channel in

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

. It is the oldest television channel in the country, having first broadcast from Baku on 14 February 1956 in what was then the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic,

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Organisation

The channel has been owned since 2005 by the Azerbaijan Television and Radio Broadcasting Closed Joint-stock Company ( az, Azərbaycan Televiziya və Radio Verilişləri Qapalı Səhmdar Cəmiyyəti, links=no), of which the national government is the only shareholder. This company also owns the channels İdman Azərbaycan TV ''(Sport Azerbaijan TV)'' and Mədəniyyət TV ''(Culture TV)''. In 2007, an application by AzTV to join the European Broadcasting Union was rejected after the channel was found to be too closely associated with the ruling government.

Programming

The channel starts its daily broadcast by airing National anthem of Azerbaijan. Programming on AzTV primarily consists of news, talk shows, documentaries, music shows, and feature films.

Technology

Their 1st shows (including music videos) that were recorded in 1956 are stored on film. In 1965, the studio switched to using videotape recording since it became affordable and the quality of their produced shows (including music videos) increased. AzTV maintains a huge archive of all their saved TV programming that was recorded from 1956–present. All of their shows are preserved on different film and videotape formats.

Broadcast area

, 99.96% of the population of Azerbaijan is able to receive AzTV via

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broadcasting, giving it the largest coverage area of any Azerbaijani television channel. In addition to broadcasting domestically, AzTV broadcasts internationally on the

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and via

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satellite to

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, North America, and portions of

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References

External links

Official website

Official website
Television stations in Azerbaijan Television networks in Azerbaijan Azerbaijani-language television stations Television channels and stations established in 1956 1956 establishments in the Soviet Union 1956 establishments in Azerbaijan {{Azerbaijan-stub