It had a mixed schedule of news and entertainment, with the emphasis on events in the USSR, and also included regional programming.

It was known officially as the CT USSR Programme One (Russian: Первая программа ЦТ СССР).

[2] MTC was left only with the technical part of preparing programs and distributing programs via radio waves in Moscow and the Moscow region, and it itself was transferred to the USSR Ministry of Communications, but in 1960 it was returned to the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

[2] During this period, a number of programs appeared that became the flagships of Russian television for many years: "Health" (since 1960), "Travelers' Club" (since 1960), "KVN" (since 1961), "Blue Light" (since 1962), "Kinopanorama" (since 1962), "Music Kiosk" (since 1962), "Rural Hour" (since 1963), "Alarm Clock" (since 1965), "13 Chairs Tavern" (since 1966), and others.

The appearance of a large number of ASCs led to the emergence of many new thematic programs - "I Serve the Soviet Union!"

(since 1967), "In the Animal World" (since 1968), "International Panorama" (since 1969), "Man and the Law" (since 1970), "From the Bottom of the Heart" (since 1971), "Song of the Year" (since 1971), "The Obvious - the Incredible" (since 1973), "Studio 9" (since 1974), "Morning Mail" (since 1974), "ABVGDeyka" (since 1975), "What?

The emergence of 4 ASC telekino led to an increase in the number of its own television films produced by TO Ekran (Shadows Disappear at Noon, Seventeen Moments of Spring, Eternal Call, Investigation Led by ZnaToKi, Born of the Revolution, TASS is Authorized to Declare, and others), as well as to the beginning of the release of children's and animated television films.

On January 25, 1971, the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company launched a duplicate of the "First Program of Central Television" via the "Orbita" system - the "East" program: it was intended for the Urals, Central Asia and part of Kazakhstan and took into account the difference in time zones (+2 hours from Moscow time).

It combined the rights of a state body[24][25] and a state enterprise,[26] the chairman of which was to be appointed by the President of the USSR (Leonid Kravchenko became this[27] position), the programs “TSN”, “Vzglyad”, “Press Club”, “Do i posle Polunochi” were closed, but on August 27 he was relieved of his post, Yegor Yakovlev was appointed the new chairman of the All-Union GTRK, and Eduard Sagalayev was appointed first deputy chairman and general director,[28] after which the staff of the “Television News Service” program returned to the All-Union GTRK, and the broadcast of the programs “Vzglyad”, “Press Club”, “Do i posle Polunochi” was resumed.

The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 27 ordered the liquidation of the All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and the creation on its basis of the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Ostankino,[29] the chairman of the All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company E. V. Yakovlev was appointed its chairman.