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{{Short description|Russian-language television channel in the Baltic states}}
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{{Infobox television channel
| name = First Baltic channel<br>Pirmais Baltijas kanāls<br>Первый Балтийский канал
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| country = Latvia
| area = {{plainlisthlist|Estonia|Latvia|Lithuania}}
* Estonia
* Latvia
* Lithuania
}}
| headquarters = [[Riga]], Latvia<ref>{{Cite web |title=BMA Group |url=http://1bma.lv/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721082905/http://1bma.lv/ |archive-date=2020-07-21 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=1bma.lv |language=lv}}</ref>
*| languages = {{hlist|Latvian<ref>{{Cite news |title=Первый Балтийский канал «заговорит» по-латышски |url=https://news.tts.lt/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB-%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82-%D0%BF%D0%BE-%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%88%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8/ |date=2010-07-26 |access-date=2023-08-07 |work=Teleservis |language=ru |trans-title=First Baltic channel will broadcast in Latvian}}</ref>|Russian}}
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* Latvian<ref>{{Cite news |title=Первый Балтийский канал «заговорит» по-латышски |url=https://news.tts.lt/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB-%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82-%D0%BF%D0%BE-%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%88%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8/ |date=2010-07-26 |access-date=2023-08-07 |work=Teleservis |language=ru |trans-title=First Baltic channel will broadcast in Latvian}}</ref>
* Russian
}}
| picture_format = [[16:9]] [[576i]]
| owner = Baltic Media Alliance
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'''First Baltic channel''' ({{Lang-Langx|lv|Pirmais Baltijas kanāls}}; [[Abbreviation|abbreviated]] '''PBK'''; {{Lang-Langx|ru|Первый Балтийский канал|Pervyy Baltiyskiy kanal}}) was a Baltic [[pay television]] channel based on the largest Russian [[Channel One Russia|Channel One]] to broadcast its programs in the [[Baltic states]]. It was launched on 4 September 2002.<ref name="государственный язык">{{cite web |title=Вещание Первого Балтийского канала в Литве могут перевести с русского на государственный язык » Литва на русском языке (новости в Литве) |url=https://www.nedelia.lt/news-lt/18862-veshhanie-pervogo-baltijskogo-kanala-v-litve-mogut-perevesti-s-russkogo-na-gosudarstvennyj-yazyk.html |website=nedelia.lt |language=ru |publisher=Экспресс-неделя |access-date=30 June 2023 |date=15 December 2010 |trans-title=First Baltic channel in Lithuania may switch from Russian to the national language }}</ref><ref name="архив газеты">{{cite web |title=архив газеты "Молодежь Эстонии" |url=http://www.moles.ee/03/Jan/23/11-1.php |website=www.moles.ee |access-date=6 May 2023 |language=ru}}</ref> The channel had also broadcast the local news programme ''Latvian time'' ({{Lang-Langx|ru|Латвийское время}}) since June 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://rus.delfi.lv/life/55355286/kultura/5498262/pervyy-baltiyskiy-kanal-zapuskaet-novosti |title=Первый Балтийский канал запускает новости |date=2003-05-28 |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=delfi.lv |publisher=[[Delfi (web portal)|Delfi]] |language=ru |trans-title=First Baltic channel launches news}}</ref>

The channel was closed in Latvia on 26 October 2021 due to [[COVID-19 misinformation|misinformation about COVID-19]] and two other violations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Broadcaster PBK has its license revoked by regulator |url=https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/broadcaster-pbk-has-its-license-revoked-by-regulator.a426688/ |website=eng.lsm.lv |language=en |date=21 October 2021}}</ref> Following the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] in 2022, its license was revoked and the channel was effectively banned in all three Baltic States.<ref name="PBK Lietuva"/><ref name="est-ban"/><ref name=":16"/>
 
== Other channels ==
=== First Baltic music channel ===
'''First Baltic music channel'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Первый Балтийский Музыкальный |url=https://www.1music.tv/rus |website=www.1music.tv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009185540/https://www.1music.tv/rus |archive-date=9 October 2012 |trans-title=First Baltic music channel}}</ref> ({{Lang-Langx|lv|Pirmais Baltijas muzikālais kanāls}}; {{Lang-Langx|ru|Первый Балтийский музыкальный канал}}) was a Russian-language music television channel launched in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |last1=КАРАСЕВ |first1=Герман |title=Первый балтийский — музыкальный |url=https://rus.delfi.lv/archive/pervyj-baltijskij-muzykalnyj.d?id=10174086 |website=rus.delfi.lv |publisher=[[Delfi (web portal)|DELFI]] |access-date=30 April 2023 |language=ru |date=26 January 2005}}</ref> The channel broadcast in Estonia, [[Germany]], Latvia, Lithuania, [[Russia]] and [[Ukraine]]. The channel ceased broadcasting on 1 November 2017 and was replaced by {{ill|Dom Kino|ru|Дом кино (телеканал)}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Puriņa |first1=Eva |title=Izmaiņas Baltcom kanālu piedāvājumā no 2017.gada 1.novembra |url=https://baltcom.lv/jaunumi/izmainas-baltcom-kanalu-piedavajuma-no-2017-gada-1-novembra/ |website=Baltcom |language=lv |date=27 October 2017 |trans-title=Changes in Baltcom channel offer from 1 November 2017}}</ref>
 
=== First Baltic channel Estonia ===
'''First Baltic channel Estonia''' ({{Lang-Langx|et|Pervõi Baltiiski Kanal}}; {{Lang-Langx|ru|Первый Балтийский канал Эстония}}) was an Estonian Russian-language television channel launched in 2002.<ref name="государственный язык"/><ref name="архив газеты"/>
 
First Baltic channel Estonia co-operated with the news portal [[Delfi (web portal)|Delfi]] and the newspaper MK-Estonia. Delfi portal also offered news bulletins of the programme Estonian News ({{lang-langx|ru|Новости Эстонии}}) for viewing.<ref>{{cite news |title="Новости Эстонии" ПБК можно посмотреть на Delfi |url=https://rus.delfi.ee/statja/20869899/novosti-estonii-pbk-mozhno-posmotret-na-delfi |access-date=2023-08-21 |work=Delfi RUS |date=2009-01-12 |language=ru |trans-title=Estonian News can be seen on Delfi}}</ref>
 
On 20 April 2021, the Latvian version of ''PBK Estonia'' was launched.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ivanova |first1=Jekaterina |title=Baltcom televīzijas abonentiem ir pieejams Pirmais Baltijas kanāls Igaunija |url=https://baltcom.lv/jaunumi/baltcom-televizijas-abonentiem-ir-pieejams-pirmais-baltijas-kanals-igaunija/ |website=Baltcom |language=lv |date=20 April 2021 |trans-title=PBK Estonia available for Baltcom subscribers }}</ref>
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=== First Baltic channel Lithuania ===
'''First Baltic channel Lithuania''' ({{Lang-Langx|lt|Pirmasis Baltijos kanalas}}; {{Lang-Langx|ru|Первый Балтийский канал Литва}}) was a Lithuanian Russian-language television channel launched in 2002.<ref name="государственный язык"/><ref name="архив газеты"/>
 
On 15 October 2013, broadcasting of this channel in Lithuania was suspended by court decision for three months due to broadcasting of the program "Man and the Law" (in [[Russian language|Russian]]: ''Человек и закон'') with a report on [[January Events (Lithuania)|January events of 1991]] in which the attack by the [[Soviet Army|Soviet army]] and special units was denied. [[Jolanta Butkevičienė]], chairman of the board of BMA Lietuva apologised to residents of Lithuania for "a program about the bitter events of 13 January 1991 that offended the civil feelings of every [[Lithuanians|Lithuanian]] for the whole country".<ref>{{cite web |title=Латвийский холдинг извинился за программу, отрицающую преступления советских войск в Вильнюсе |url=https://www.kp.ru/online/news/1555665/ |website=kp.ru |language=ru |date=8 October 2013 |trans-title=Latvian holding apologises for programme denying Soviet crimes in Vilnius}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Nubaudė "Pervyj Baltiskij" dėl laidos apie sausio 13-ąją |url=https://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/nubaude-pervyj-baltiskij-del-laidos-apie-sausio-13-aja.d?id=63348368 |access-date=30 April 2023 |work=[[Delfi (web portal)|DELFI]] |date=22 November 2013 |language=lt |trans-title=First Baltic channel fined for a programme about 13 January events}}</ref>
Channel broadcasting in Lithuania was resumed on 15 January 2014, but the program "Man and the Law" is no longer broadcast in Lithuania and other [[Baltic states|Baltic countries]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Po skandalo prie įprastos programos grįžtanti PBK televizija: laidos "Žmogus ir įstatymas" eteryje nebus |url=https://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/po-skandalo-prie-iprastos-programos-griztanti-pbk-televizija-laidos-zmogus-ir-istatymas-eteryje-nebus-56-397176 |work=15min.lt |date=8 January 2014 |language=lt |trans-title=First Baltic channel returns to normal programming after the scandal: "Man and the Law" will not be broadcast}}</ref>
 
On 25 February 2022, the channel broadcasting in Lithuania was suspended for a period of three years due to warmongering and spreading [[Russian propaganda]].<ref name=":16">{{cite news |title=Lithuania bans Russian, Belarusian TV channels over war incitement |url=https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1626345/lithuania-bans-russian-belarusian-tv-channels-over-war-incitement |access-date=13 August 2023 |work=[[Lithuanian National Radio and Television]] |date=25 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
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[[Category:Defunct television channels in Estonia]]
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