PTV Home HD is a Pakistani

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

television channel owned by the

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. It also broadcast as a

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History

PTV Home started broadcasting on 26 November 1964 in

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and on 25 December 1964 in

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(the current

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). The broadcasts were limited to

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and

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at first (the Dhaka station would later become a part of

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upon Bangladesh's independence in 1971), before extending to

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and

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in 1965 and

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in 1966. The Lahore station moved from channel 9 to channel 5 in November 1968, increasing its power. The basic PTV network was completed in 1974, after the start of the microwave network in 1973, and ahead of the start of color broadcasts in 1975.

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was able to create programming and had taping facilities, but used the Quetta transmitter. In the 90s, the channel was renamed PTV 1, and by 2000 was broadcasting 18 hours a day. The content of the schedule varied for terrestrial and satellite viewers.

Current programming

References

External links

Pakistan Television (PTV) official PTV Home website, Retrieved 8 June 2016
{{Television in Pakistan , state=autocollapse * Television stations in Islamabad Television channels and stations established in 1964 Publicly funded broadcasters Multilingual broadcasters Public broadcasting in Pakistan