Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International

The first channel to be launched by the MTA network was Ahmadiyya Muslim Presentation on 31 January 1992 and was established by Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the time. It started off with weekly transmissions broadcasting the Friday Sermon and later, on 7 January 1994, AMP was rebranded to MTA1 Al-Awla and started additional programmes, increasing the schedule from 4 hours to 12 hours before beginning its 24-hour service[2] on 1 April 1996,[3] becoming the first TV channel to broadcast Islamic programmes globally and the first commercial-free television station.

Initially, the studio, also serving as the entire video library, was a small 10 ft by 10 ft room in the Mahmood Hall of Fazl Mosque and the equipment was a sole video camera and "few ordinary flood lights".[3]

In April 2001, MTA International began its EPG when the channel launched on the Sky UK platform as a free-to-air channel.[3]

On 1 August 2016, MTA Africa 1 and 2 were inaugurated by the current caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad[4][3] broadcasting programmes in African languages as well as programs from MTA 1.[3]

From 27 May 2020, known as Khilafat Day for Ahmadis, MTA International rearranged its channels according to regions and introduced new channels. These new channels were formerly MTA1 broadcasting on different satellites, converted to cater viewers of specific regions by broadcasting programmes in specific languages for each region. For Instance, MTA 1 on Galaxy 19 became MTA8 HD AMERICA with programmes in Urdu, English, French and Spanish.

• MTA1 World

MTA1 was the first channel launched by the MTA network and is the primary channel broadcasting programmes in English, Urdu and occasionally archived programmes in Arabic and French, and has multiple audio tracks to provide translations for certain programmes such as the Friday Sermon. Its broadcast coverage used to cover the entire globe before MTA1 on some satellites were converted into regional channels. Now it is mainly broadcast in the UK/Europe and parts of South America.

• MTA2 Europe

MTA2 focuses on programmes aimed specifically at European and Middle Eastern viewers by broadcasting programmes in a range of European Languages, commonly French and German, in addition to English and Urdu which are programmes also broadcast on MTA1. MTA2, too, also has a range of audio tracks used for translations, similar to MTA1, except on MTA2 the Bengali Track is sometimes switched with Spanish. It is also broadcast in HD on the HotBird 13C and streamed online.

• MTA3 Al-Arabia

MTA3 is an all-Arabic channel specifically for Arabic viewers in the Middle East, however, is also broadcast in other parts of the world such as Australia, Europe, Indonesia and North America (where it is broadcast in HD). Initially it was broadcast on the Egyptian-owned Nilesat 201 before being barred and eventually being broadcast on the European Eutelsat 7 West A.

• MTA4 Africa

MTA4 is channel aimed specifically towards the West African audience, and it was initially called MTA Africa 1. The channel is broadcast on the Astra 2F and airs programmes specifically in the English, French and Swahili languages.

• MTA5 Africa
• MTA Ghana

• MTA6 Asia
• MTA7 Asia

• MTA8 America
• MTA8 America + 3