50 years ago today: Pakistan launches first TV channel

[ghazi52]

50 years ago today: Pakistan launches first TV channel


On November 26, 1964, Pakistan's then president Mohammad Ayub Khan launched the country's first major televised media broadcasting network.

PTV's monochrome transmission began in 1964 from its small pilot TV station in Lahore. Later in 1967, its television centres opened up in Karachi and Rawalpindi-Islamabad.


Reproduced below are Dawn's newspaper clippings of the launch.

 

[Green Arrow]

Happy birthday PTV.

 

[TopCat]

We bought our frist TV in 1978 black and white 20"

 

[haviZsultan]

PTV's standards have declined rapidly in the years. It is just a puppet of the government saying whatever the government in power wants them to say.

 

[zaid butt]

50 years ago today: Pakistan launches first TV channel


On November 26, 1964, Pakistan's then president Mohammad Ayub Khan launched the country's first major televised media broadcasting network.
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PTV's monochrome transmission began in 1964 from its small pilot TV station in Lahore. Later in 1967, its television centres opened up in Karachi and Rawalpindi-Islamabad.


Reproduced below are Dawn's newspaper clippings of the launch.

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happy birthday ptv
and good luck for future

 

[zaid butt]

PTV's standards have declined rapidly in the years. It is just a puppet of the government saying whatever the government in power wants them to say.

how can you say this although you don't watch it
i watch ptv so i can say these kind of bullshit is wrong

 

[asad71]

If I recollect correctly the Dhaka station was commissioned a few days earlier.

 

[root]

PTV is still good channel.

 

[Norwegian]

PTV is still good channel.

Hahahah!

 

[ghazi52]

We bought our first TV in 1974. A Russian black and white 24"..

 

[A.Rafay]

Can someone report on our Television industry at present day? What have we achieved and whats its total worth. Whats the status of PTN today?

 

[ghazi52]

History
Originally a private sector project in 1961 by prominent industrialist Syed Wajjid Ali who signed a joint venture agreement with Nipon Electric Company (NEC) of Japan, leading Pakistani engineer Ubaidur Rahman was appointed by Wajjid Ali to head the television project. By 1962, after a series of pilot transmission tests, the project was quickly taken over by the Ayub Khan Government in 1963 for the "greater national interest of Pakistan". President Ayub Khan re-appointed Ubaidur Rahman in 1963 under the Ministry of Information to continue with the NEC joint venture collaboration to launch Pakistan Television or PTV. The project began with a tent on the back lot of Radio Pakistan Lahore where a transmission tower and a studio were constructed. On November 26, 1964 the first official television station commenced transmission broadcasts from LAHORE,[1] followed by Dhaka in 1965 (then the capital of East Pakistan).
A third centre was established in Rawalpindi-Islamabad in 1965 and the fourth in Karachi in 1966. Later centres in Peshawar and Quetta were established by 1974.
Originally broadcast in black and white, PTV began colour transmission in 1976.[2] With this new upgrade in techniques and equipment, the Pakistan Television Academy was founded and opened in 1987 to teach students who wished to work in the medium. As with the other agreement, the government financed most of the funds while the private venture capitalists offered to fund the remainder. Late 1980s morning transmission started on PTV.

 

[ghazi52]

List of television channels in Pakistan.
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List of television channels in Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[ghazi52]

PTN.. Not anymore
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List of upcoming Pakistani television channels

• Aaj Entertainment - Owned by Recorder TV Network
• BOL News
• BOL Entertainment
• Dunya Entertainment
• Hum News
• Channel 92
• Nai Baat TV

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

There was also STN back in the 90s.. Heck our antena even used to catch indias durdarshan in Lahore