Public Television Company of Armenia
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 October 13, 1957, the State Committee on Radio and Television Programmes of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic was formed.Engineers for a colour mobile station, TV production laboratory, video recording units were obtained to begin this process.Initially, the colour programmes were transmitted only from the mobile station, from the large celebrations, concerts, sport events of the country.Starting in August 1973 Armenian Television began broadcasting videotape produced programming, which made up 70 percent of the programmes aired in 1978.As political powers began changing in 1990, the then prime minister, Vazgen Manukyan, appointed Henrik Hovhannisyan, a non-communist, to be the head of the State Department of Television and Radio programmes.