Date of establishment: 1956

Chairman: Rovshan Mammadov

Azerbaijani television began operating on February 14, 1956.

The Baku studio initially broadcasted two and then three times a week with a 2-hour program. Since 1957, Azerbaijani television began broadcasting 5 times a week, and the daily volume of programs was increased to 2 hours and 20 minutes. In 1962, the volume of daily broadcast programs increased to 7 hours. Since the 70s, the daily broadcast volume of Azerbaijani television programs and programs was increased to 10 hours, and in the 80s to 18 hours. Since January 2005, television has been broadcasting 24 hours a day.
In 1956, the Baku television studio and the Radio Information Department operated separately. In October 1957, the television organization, which was removed from the subordination of the Ministry of Culture, was merged with the Radio Information Department and renamed the State Radio and Television Broadcasting Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Republic.

1956: Baku Television Studio
1957: State Radio and Television Broadcasting Committee
1970: State Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee
1991: State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company
2005: Azerbaijan Television and Radio Broadcasting Closed Joint Stock Company

In 2007, Azerbaijan Television was awarded the “European Quality” medal for the technical suitability of broadcasting to Europe.
On November 6, 2013, broadcasting in 16:9 image format was switched to.
Since May 31, 2021, Azerbaijan Television, Sports TV and the “Culture” channel have started broadcasting in HD.
On January 28, 2022, the "Azerspace-1" satellite switched to HD broadcasting format.
By September 2, 1956, the Baku studio had already shown up to 100 feature films. Baku residents could watch the film magazines "Soviet Azerbaijan", "Science and Technology", "Foreign Chronicle", "Pioneer" on television.
In the first period, the Baku studio consisted of two rooms of 30 square meters. In one of the rooms, which was divided in half, cinema equipment was installed, and from the other, performances by announcers and small musical groups were broadcast. There was only 1 studio television camera in the studio, as well as two cameras in the projection hall for showing films and slides. One of the three cameras was for the announcer or speaker, and the other two were for the film. If the camera in the studio failed, the announcer's image and text were provided from the projection room.

On June 9, 1957, a football match was broadcast from the Republic Stadium for the first time. The report from the stadium was conducted by radio journalist Valid Sanani. On June 28, a student and youth festival was shown from the same stadium. Direct broadcasts began from the Azerbaijan State Academic National Drama Theater, the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic and other concert halls.
In 1958, eight-channel equipment, which was considered a modern technical tool for that time, was purchased from Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and reconstruction work began at the television center. From the mid-60s, new technology was introduced in the studios. Since 1965, the KMZI-4 video recording equipment used in the filming pavilion allowed the transfer of performances to video tape. Until 1970, the lack of video equipment in the local airspace slowed down the development of television. Only in 1970–1972, after filming was carried out with a 16-millimeter film of a movie camera, did reports begin to be shown in information programs. The improved "Kadr-2" video system, which was put into operation in 1971, created favorable conditions for editing.
Since 1970, Moscow television began broadcasting programs in color. Azerbaijani television was able to switch to color broadcasting only in Baku in 1973. The introduction of the KADR-3R video recorder in the mid-1970s created conditions for high-quality electronic editing. In the 1970–1980s, video equipment paved the way for broadcasting.
Azerbaijani television began broadcasting news programs in 1960. At first, this program was called "News of the Day". From April of that year, the information program was broadcast 5 times a week under the name "Latest News". The first large-scale news program was broadcast after the creation of the Central Television's "Vremya" ("Time") information program. In 1967, the "Screen of the Day" news program was broadcast.
On December 31, 1960, the "With You" New Year program was broadcast for the first time. The program, which lasted more than 2 hours on live air, used music, interviews, congratulations, skits, plots and conversations from several enterprises. The author and director of the program was Karim Karimov, and the host was People's Artist Mohsun Sanani.
In 1956, the Baku television studio was headed by Anvar Alibayli, and the Radio Information Department was headed by Israfil Nazarov.
On January 15, 2019, by order of President Ilham Aliyev, Rovshan Mammadov was appointed chairman of the "Azerbaijan Television and Radio Broadcasts" Closed Joint-Stock Company.
The channel operates a Telefilm studio ("Azerbaijantelefilm" Creative Union) and Sabah Creative Studio. There was also an organization called "Tamasha" Creative Union on television at one time.