ANS TV (also known as ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company) is a news television channel in Azerbaijan, which is owned by ANS Group of Companies since its foundation on March 9, 1991. Its name, ANS, stands for Azerbaijani News Service. ANS was the first privately owned independent television company in the former Soviet Union. In the early years of ANS' establishment, there were many local wars on the territory of the former Soviet Union. ANS TV got popularized by reporting news from the frontlines - Chechnya, Georgia, Ossetia, Karabakh, Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Ingushetia and frequently selling footage to BBC, CNN, NBC, ZDF, ARD, VOX, RAI, TF, Rossiya 1, CBS, TBS.