Shalimar Television Network
Shalimar Television Network (STN) was the first semi-government television channel of Pakistan, the first to break up the monopoly of the state-owned Pakistan Television (PTV). STN started its broadcast in 1990 with the name of People's Television Network (PTN) under the umbrella of Shalimar Recording Company from Islamabad. Later on, it started transmissions from Karachi, Lahore and by the mid-1990s, it was available in the whole country at terrestrial beam. In 1991, the name of PTN was changed to STN (Shalimar TV Network).