The agency also has the country's largest sound archives and four orchestras, and it participates in cultural preservation programs.

On September 1, 1926, the first experimental radio programme (25 minutes duration) called "Voice of Yerevan" was transmitted in Armenia.

That is why radio programs were expected to cover such topics, which would interest people of different specialities and meet their needs.

On April 6, 1927, national print media published the first radio program consisting of news and concerts.

During the post-war period the Republican radio opened a number of new editorial departments, extended the radius of radio transmissions, in 1947 started to operate the second channel (music and information), created new programmes and projects, increased broadcasting hours, as well as expanded its audience.

The LyunSe International portal aggregates current affairs stories from youth radio programmes across Europe and encourages interaction through a set of specialised forums.

[citation needed] On August 8, 1947, the decision was made to create an editorial group, which would prepare radio programs for Armenians living abroad.

[5] It broadcasts in a number of languages, including Armenian, Kurdish,[6] Arabic, Azerbaijani, English, Persian, French, Georgian, German, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.