ATV
Owned by	SSI
Country	Pakistan
Language	Urdu
Broadcast area	South Asia, Middle East
Headquarters	Islamabad, Capital, Pakistan
Formerly called	PTN, STN , ATV
Website	www.atv.com.pk

ATV -

The phenomenal growth of the channel can be best judged from the fact that the Channel which had its only transmitting station at Islamabad in 1990 now operates with 20 stations covering all major cities and commercial centres of Pakistan.

The ATV stations are located at Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Daska, Multan, Bahawalpur, Larkana, Hyderabad ,Sukkur, Peshawar, Mangora, Qalat, Batkhail, Khuzdar, Thandyani, Sahiwal, Sibi, Quetta and Tando Allahyar covering over 50% of the population. The success of ATV is primarily attributable to its extremely popular family entertainment programs.

The program mix is Entertainment 40%, Information 37 % and Education 23%. The broadcasting setup of ATV clicked on the very outset and played a major role in the prosperity and stability of the Company.

All the capital and running expenses of this company are met from its own resources. No government grant, budgetary allocation or subsidy was ever acquired.

The Company enjoys sound financial health. It has paid unprecedented dividends of 6597% in the corporate history of Pakistan since its inception.

[edit] A-NEWS

The broadcasting setup of ATV clicked on the very outset and played a major role in the prosperity and stability of the company. In spite of being an entertainment channel, the ATV has always broken the most important news in country, earlier than any other channel.It includes important news of country,worldwide,sports,business and weather.Due to requests of viewers of ATV,the channel is working on Entertainment segment in news for providing latest entertainment news to viewers.Almost 77% viewers sent requests to open this segment.But now the channel gives only too much important entertainment news.Almost 3 news in a month.Due to which viewers are disappointed<.^{[citation needed]} from masoodmln@gmail.com

[edit] External links

• ATV official website

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