[4] "Azad Azərbaycan Teleradio Yayım Şirkəti" was registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan on March 13, 1998 and started broadcasting on December 25, 2000.

[6] During the events that happened on the night of the 2003 presidential elections, ATV reporters and camera operators were gravely hurt.

Until December 31, 2007, alongside Azerbaijani-language programming, it also aired content in Russian (Russkie Zvyozdı).

Another scandal was related to a shooting suffered by ATV in one of the churches of neighboring Georgia, in September that year.

In that report, ANS TV accused ATV of playing with the viewers' religious sentiments.