Turkmenistan (TV channel)

Turkmenistan
Country	Turkmenistan
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Headquarters	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Programming
Language(s)	English; Chinese; French; German; Arabic; Russian; Persian
Picture format	HDTV
Ownership
Owner	Turkmenistan Government
Sister channels	Altyn Asyr
History
Launched	1 November 2004
Former names	TV-4

Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan) is a state-owned Turkmenian television channel founded in 2004 aimed at an international audience.^[1] The channel was announced in February and started broadcasting on 12 September the same year.^[2]^[3] As with other channels of Turkmenistan, it is under the control of the Coordinating Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan.^[4] The channel was created in order to avail the international community with the achievements of Turkmenistan in the country's historical transformations in all spheres of public life, as well as to further improve the country's information systems. Altyn Asyr has positioned itself as the main TV channel of Turkmenistan. Television is broadcast in seven audio tracks (Turkmen, Russian, English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian). The headquarters is located in Ashgabat.

The channel broadcasts eleven segments in an hourly cycle: policy, economy, agriculture, science, culture, health, history, tourism, sports, weather and no comment.^[5]