PTV Home started broadcasting on 26 November 1964[2][3] in West Pakistan and on 25 December 1964 in East Pakistan (the current Bangladesh).[4] The broadcasts were limited to Lahore and Dacca at first (the Dhaka station would later become a part of Bangladesh Television upon Bangladesh's independence in 1971), before extending to Rawalpindi and Islamabad in 1965 and Karachi in 1966.[2] The Lahore station moved from channel 9 to channel 5 in November 1968, increasing its power.[5] 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.[6]
Peshawar was able to create programming and had taping facilities, but used the Quetta transmitter.[5]
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.[7][8]
^ abIndrajit Banerjee; Stephan Logan, eds. (2008). "Television in Pakistan". Asian Communication Handbook, 2008. New York: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre. pp. 377–400. ISBN978-981-4136-10-5.
