PTV Home started broadcasting on 26 November 1964[2][3] in West Pakistan and on 25 December 1964 in East Pakistan (the current Bangladesh).

[4] The broadcasts were limited to Lahore and Dacca at first (the Dhaka station would later become a part of Bangladesh Television upon Bangladesh's independence in 1971), before extending to Rawalpindi and Islamabad in 1965 and Karachi in 1966.

[6] Peshawar was able to create programming and had taping facilities, but used the Quetta transmitter.

[5] In the 90s, the channel was renamed PTV 1, and by 2000 was broadcasting 18 hours a day.

The content of the schedule varied for terrestrial and satellite viewers.