Shalimar Television Network (STN) was the first semi governmental television channel of

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, the first to break up the monopoly of state-owned

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(PTV). STN started its broadcast in 1990 with the name of People's Television Network (PTN) under the umbrella of Shalimar Recording Company from

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. Later on, its transmissions were started from

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and by the mid-1990s, it was available in the whole country at terrestrial beam. In 1991, the name of PTN was changed to STN (Shalimar TV Network) https://div46amplifier.com/2015/06/15/evolution-of-television-in-pakistan/, 'Evolution of Television in Pakistan', The Amplifier Magazine, Published 15 June 2015, Retrieved 10 March 2017

History

PTN under settlements with

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of USA and

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of UK started rebroadcast of the programming of CNN International channel and

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. In the same year, PTN in an agreement with Interflow (a

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) started a time slot by the name of ,

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(NTM) which came as a breath of fresh air after

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's military dictatorship era of the 1980s; with its unique and entertainment-filled programming, it gave tough competition to PTV at prime time evening TV viewing time.

STN-As Channel-3

In 1999, NTM had to quit the airwaves because of the financial crunch. Right after this, STN also ended the re-broadcast programs of CNN Intentional, BBC World and DW. In 1999, under a settlement with PTV Network, STN became "Channel-3". A Satellite beam was also arranged for STN/Channel-3 and it started its broadcast from PTV Academy. Each rebroadcast station of STN on terrestrial airwaves was connected to the satellite beam of STN/Channel. Channel-3 started its regular transmission in 2000 as an all-purpose channel. Slots of 'Prime Entertainment' and 'Sunday TV' were quite popular among the audience as the quality of entertainment programming were quite good.

Replacement of STN by ATV

In 2005, STN/Channel-3 went off the air and the parent company Shalimar Recording and Broadcasting Company signed an agreement with Sports Star International to start the first ever semi-private channel of Pakistan

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channel, the collaboration stayed intact till 2018. From 2018-2020, ATV ran solely under SRBC solely as a semi-government TV Channel. In 2020, it again got a partner from private sector. https://web.archive.org/web/20111025204843/http://srbc.com.pk/srbc_in_brief.asp#stn, Article on ATV (Pakistan), formerly known as Shalimar Television Network, Retrieved 10 March 2017

References

External links

* http://atv.com.pk/, ATV (Pakistan) official website Television networks in Pakistan Mass media companies of Pakistan {{Pakistan-tv-stub