Payame Afghan TV Live Online

📺 Payam-E-Afghan TV is a Los Angeles-based satellite television network, founded in 2007, aimed at Afghan Americans and the Afghan diaspora, broadcasting primarily in Dari and Pashto languages.

Facts

• • 🌍 Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 2007, Payam-E-Afghan TV serves Afghan Americans and the Afghan diaspora.
  • 📡 Originally launched in the early 1990s as a radio station, it later expanded to television.
  • 📻 The radio station featured call-in talk shows, news from VOA, and various other programs.
  • 💰 Owned and financially supported by Omar Khatab, a former Afghan state radio newscaster who immigrated to the US in 1978.
  • 📺 The TV station broadcasts news, music, and entertainment shows primarily in Dari and Pashto languages.
  • 🎥 Seddique Mateen, father of the Orlando nightclub shooter, Omar Mateen, had a show named “Durand Jirga” on the channel, featuring anti-Pakistan views.
  • 📡 It was available in Europe on Hot Bird 13°E satellite from 2008 to 2021 and now broadcasts on Yahsat 1A 52.5°E, receivable in Afghanistan.
  • 🌐 The channel also live streams on its website and has a YouTube channel.