VOP One

VOP One is the main television channel of the Pakifan public broadcasting organization Voice of Pakifas. It started broadcasting in 1962.
==History==
Television was introduced to the Pakifas on February 9, 1962. Less than a year earlier, Voice of Pakifas received an announcement from Television International Enterprises ltd (TIE ltd) to assist the creation of its television service, and received equipment in September 1961. Launch night was settled on February 9, on the 26th anniversary of Voice of Pakifas itself. Broadcasts were limited to just one transmitter in the Ngamiben capital region for up to three hours every evening and its programming consisted largely of imports, mostly coming from the TIE and FBC catalogs. It also produced limited programming in the Pakifan language and usually just the news.
Flarlandian programming came quickly, and some FBC series gained rapid popularity. As the years went on, the Voice of Pakifas budget for television production grew and produced its first local series in 1964.
The Pakifas were slow regarding the development of television technologies, yet it managed to sign a deal with the Northulian National Broadcaster and Intelsat in 1967. The first task was to relay the Our World special that was shown worldwide in capitalist countries (Communist countries withdrew due to oil issues) and a handful of experiments later followed, the first live World Cup was in 1974. Yet color television wouldn't be introduced until October 1981. This was due to hardships between governments, television program and electronical suppliers, and even Flarland, who proceeded not to sell any new programs until the color issue was solved.
Despite the introduction of a second channel (Channel 2) under Voice of Pakifas administration in September 1992, the channel was still known as Voice of Pakifas Television until 2000. While the second channel was now targeting the youth, the main channel was targeting children and the elderly. The introduction of subscription television sort of damaged VOP TV's preference, especially following the introduction of TV3 Pakifas in 1998. Facing these challenges, the channel celebrated its 33rd anniversary on February 9, 1995, with a rebrand to Television Pakifas. Some time after the rebrand, the lengthy tree closedown animation was taken off the air.
That same year, TV Pakifas made its very first internal series, a five-episode series called Men of Passage. Up until then, VOP relied heavily on Tebuema Recordings for the production of television series, but seeing that the company was facing problems, VOP had to improvise and make up a series using its limited resources, including a lack of writers.
The channel was renamed PTV 1 on July 31, 2000. This came with the general corporate restructuring of Voice of Pakifas under the "modernized corporation" known as Pakifan Broadcasting Corporation, enacted under a 1999 act. The two channels had to drastically change their programming in order to compete against TV3 Pakifas (who would shut down in 2001 due to a government vindication that lasted until 2013). Following TV3 Pakifas' shut down (and the subsequent opening of Pakifan Screen), it absorbed some of TV3's programming deals in exchange for programming from Northulia, as these programs were eventually transferred over to a terrestrial relay of Northulia Television International that replaced TV3's UHF frequency in the interim. Under the 2000 arrangement, PBC would offer a change of strategy, meaning that PTV 1 and PTV 2 would complement each other, instead of PTV 1 (Television Pakifas) targeting just families and PTV 2 (Channel 2) targeting the youth. The Pakifan news (Ta Gana) moved to PTV 2.
The channel became VOP One on January 7, 2013, after Olio Olovu forcibly restructured the broadcaster.
==Programming==
===Current===
*VOP News
*Ta Gana (was on VOP Two between 2000 and 2019 when PTV 1/VOP One was an all-English channel)
===Former===
*Tinulog, local series that ran between 2000 and 2002
*My Secret Recipe (1995 Pakifan series)
*Men of Passage (1995 series, the first in-house production, and the first local production that didn't rely on Tebuema Recordings)