The first Armenian radio transmission went out on 1 September 1926, a twenty-five minute programme called Voice of Yerevan made up mostly of folk music broken up by local news bulletins. That broadcast became Public Radio of Armenia, which has run continuously for a century and is now among the country's largest broadcasters, operating at least three national networks including a youth music service, a children's station and a service for Armenia's Yazidi community. It holds the largest sound archive in the country and maintains four orchestras. The organisation is registered as Public Radio Company of Armenia CJSC, state-owned, with between 251 and 1,000 staff, and it took a government allocation of AMD 198.6 million for modernisation in June 2026. International broadcasting began on shortwave in August 1947, and a Kurdish-language news programme started in 1956. Today, Public Radio of Armenia is mainly focused on Armenian politics, the Azerbaijan and Türkiye files, economics, society, culture and sport, published in English alongside ten other language editions, from their base in Yerevan, Armenia. One interesting fact: The English service is one of eleven language editions on the same domain, and two of them are Azerbaijani and Turkish. A state broadcaster in Yerevan publishing daily in the languages of the two countries it has spent a century in conflict with.