Altyn Asyr, meaning "Golden Age" in Turkmen, is one of the seven television channels owned by the Government of Turkmenistan.
The channel's TV startup is at 7:00, while the closedown is usually at 1:00, averaging 18 hours on air.
Feature films are broadcast at 23:30 on weekends, after the late edition of Watan Habarlary.
[4] Watan Habarlary frequently repeats stories from the previous night in its morning editions.
Television arrived to Ashgabat, the capital of the Turkmen SSR, in 1959,[6] with a transmitter on VHF channel 1 in the Russian standard.