Azad Azerbaijan TV (Azerbaijani: Azad Azərbaycan TV, ATV) is a private television station in Baku, Azerbaijan.[1] It has been broadcasting since December 25, 2000.[2] ATV began broadcasting through movies and music videos, but later news, shows and other programs were added. In the last years, ATV claimed to be the most popular and the most viewable channel in Azerbaijan.
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| Country | Azerbaijan |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Azerbaijan Eastern Europe |
| Headquarters | Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Azad Azerbaijan TV and Radio Broadcasting Company |
| History | |
| Launched | 25 December 2000 |
History
edit"Azad Azərbaycan Teleradio Yayım Şirkəti" was registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan on March 13, 1998 and started broadcasting on December 25, 2000. Its initial offer comprised mainly of music videos, TV series and animated series..[3] In 2002, it started broadcasting news bulletins under the name "Son Xəbər".[4]
During the events that happened on the night of the 2003 presidential elections, ATV reporters and camera operators were gravely hurt.
Until December 31, 2007, alongside Azerbaijani-language programming, it also aired content in Russian (Russkie Zvyozdı). In 2008, according to a law approved by the MTRS, all programs shown on ATV were in Azerbaijani.
In October 2009, ATV International started broadcasting.
In 2011, fundamental changes were made to the channel. Its management changed. In alignment with this, the logo was changed on May 10, 2011.
The channel improved its technical quality in September 2012, becoming a 24-hour channel. On September 15, 2015, it converted to 16:9.
The channel had scandalous relations with ANS TV. The situation began in 2015, after a fire at a building in the residential housing estate in the district of Binagadi, when Matanat Aliverdiyeva said on "Gundalik" that: "we shouldn't make this tragedy a tragedy, as if it were wind, it was a movie, we watched and it ended".[5] With that scandal, ANS's Xəbərçi criticized ANS TV. Another scandal was related to a shooting suffered by ATV in one of the churches of neighboring Georgia, in September that year. In that report, ANS TV accused ATV of playing with the viewers' religious sentiments.
References
edit- ^ "Country profile: Azerbaijan". BBC. November 26, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-26.
- ^ A fact from az:Azad Azərbaycan Televiziyası
- ^ "Azad Azərbaycan ilk efir". Archived from the original on February 22, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
- ^ "Bu gün "Azad Azərbaycan" telekanalının 20 ili tamam olur". youtube.com] (in Azerbaijani). 25 December 2020. Archived from the original on June 28, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
- ^ "Arxivlənmiş surət". Archived from the original on 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
External links
edit- Official website (in Azerbaijani)
