[2][3] It launched in 2007 through a US government aid program and broadcasts news, music, and entertainment shows in primarily the Dari and Pashto languages.

It is a channel owned and supported financially by Omar Khatab, who came to the US in 1978 and had worked before as a newscaster for Afghan state radio.

[4] He originally launched Payam-e-Afghan as a radio station in the early 1990s where he broadcast full time on the airwaves in northern California.

[1] The TV station also had multiple programs and shows from Seddique Mateen, who is the father of the perpetrator of the Orlando's Pulse nightclub shooting, Omar Mateen.

[5] In 2008, the TV station became available in Europe on Hot Bird 13°E satellite until it left in 2021.