Public Television Company of Armenia

Early years 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 November 29, 1956, the date of Sovietization of Armenia, the first programme of Armenian television was transmitted. Until December 31, the station mostly aired films; on that day, a New Year's special was broadcast, and on January 2, 1957, the first programme for children. In this phase, Armenian television was still a pilot service. In 2015, the channel acquired a mobile HD station with ten HD cameras and a satellite transmitter, the station came into place thanks to funds from China. On 13 September 2016, the channel switched to HD broadcasts. The channel is broadcast internationally via 2 satellites: Hotbird 13G, unencrypted, since 1999, and on Eutelsat 70B, encrypted with BISS, since 2013. ==Programming==

;Current • Armenia 1 (Armenian: Հայաստան 1) (also known nationally as 1TV and The First Channel) – a generalist channel broadcast since November 29, 1956 which has a constitutional obligation to provide citizens the right to receive free political, economic, cultural, historical, scientific, sports, educational, variety and news broadcasts. ;Defunct • , or Norq TV (closed in 1998), previously known as Second Program (1973–1991) and Second Channel (1991–1996) – a generalist channel which was replaced by privately run station Armenia 2 (H2) in 1999 • (English: New Channel) (2002–2008), previously known as H1 Yerevan (2002–2004) – entertainment and music programming, replaced by Ararat • (2008–2011) – arts and culture programming ==Management==

• Nerses Kagramanov: Director of Armenian Television (1956–1960) • Marat Martinosyan: First Creative Director of Armenian Television (1956–1964), Director of Television (1966–1971) Chair of State Committee • John Kirakosyan (1966–1969) • Mavr Davtyan (1969–1970) • Stepan Poghosyan (1970–1988) • Emanuel Araksman-Manukyan (1988–1990) • Henrik Hovhannisyan (1990–1991) Head of State Department • Samvel Gevorgyan (1991–1993) • Tigran Hakobyan (1993–1995) Executive Directors • Robert Mavisakalyan (1995–1996) • Perch Stepanyan (1996–1997) • Hamlet Gasparyan (1997–1998) • Tigran Naghdalyan (1998–2000) • Armen Arzumanyan (2001–2010) • Gagik Buniatyan (2010–2013) • Margarita Grigoryan (2013–2020) • Hovhannes Movsisyan (2020–present) ==Logo gallery==

Public Television of Armenia.svg|2000–2013 Public Television of Armenia logo.jpg|2013–2021 ==See also==