Channel
@presstv
On this record: Previous handles · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Stars · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cross-platform identity · Referenced elsewhere · Cite this entry
94,048subscribers
-235 since we began measuring on 5 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001006487902 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @presstv |
| Description | Press TV, Iran’s first 24/7 English news network, is based in Tehran. It has bureaus worldwide, highlighting less told stories and offering unique insights into cultural and political stories. https://www.presstv.co.uk/ |
| Created | 25 October 2015 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/presstv |
Recorded in 2019 as “PressTV” — the title held for this same channel (matched by Telegram id, not by handle) in the Pushshift Telegram Dataset, a third-party archive captured in 2019-2020, years before this register made its own first observation. CC BY 4.0, Baumgartner, Zannettou, Squire & Blackburn (2020), Zenodo. A third party’s dated snapshot, not a measurement this register made itself.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026, 16:53 | 94,048 | -25 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 19:27 | 94,073 | -29 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 22:16 | 94,102 | -24 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 22:12 | 94,126 | -42 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 19:25 | 94,168 | -43 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:24 | 94,211 | -40 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 19:35 | 94,251 | -32 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 01:33 | 94,283 | no change |
| 5 Aug 2026, 21:16 | 94,283 | first reading |
293 posts held, back to 5 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 18 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 288 of 291 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 293 (5 August 2026 – 12 August 2026) |
| Views total | 356,274 |
| Reactions total | 13,775 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 18:39 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Measured directly from 120 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
12,574 reactions across 268 posts, in 11 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 31.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 3,956 | 31.5% | |
| 👍 | 2,488 | 19.8% | |
| 🤬 | 1,785 | 14.2% | |
| 👏 | 1,026 | 8.16% | |
| 😁 | 918 | 7.30% | |
| 😢 | 787 | 6.26% | |
| 🔥 | 610 | 4.85% | |
| 👎 | 326 | 2.59% | |
| 🤔 | 324 | 2.58% | |
| 😱 | 259 | 2.06% | |
| 🤯 | 95 | 0.756% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 288 of the 293 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 13,775reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 293 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 12 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @presstv. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.
Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.
This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.
Counted over the 293 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 5 August 2026 to 12 August 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.
Israel holds 40 Palestinian journalists behind bars amid campaign to silence press Israel is imprisoning around 40 Palestinian journalists, including five women, as it intensifies a sweeping crackdown to silence the Palestinian press and suppress reporting on its violations and crimes, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS). @PressTV
👎2❤1
▶️ Press TV’s Hossein Emad reports on intensifying Israeli airstrikes, bombardments and controlled demolitions across southern Lebanon, as tensions persist despite the ceasefire. @PressTV
🤬7
▶️ Mourners visit the resting place of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution at the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad. @PressTV
❤14😢2
▶️ A man, woman, and child were reportedly killed in a stabbing incident at a daycare in Minnesota. @PressTV
👎12😢1😱1
Iran has never violated international law or sought regional unrest: Pezeshkian Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stressed that the Islamic Republic has never violated international law and has consistently sought to maintain and strengthen good relations with its neighboring countries. @PressTV
👍11👏2🔥2
Wife of a security force member martyred during foreign-backed riots in January 2026: “They stabbed him in the back three times, making sure the dagger went all the way through his body.” @PresstvDoc
🤬17😢4😱2
📸 Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi meets and holds talks with US Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral Brad Cooper in Baghdad. @PressTV
👎27🤬7🤔4
▶️ Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council called for expanded ties with Pakistan, including closer political and economic relations. @PressTV
❤19👍8🤔4👎1
▶️ Iran's Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi take part in the mourning ceremony held at the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad to mark the anniversary of the passing of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and Imam Hassan (AS). @PressTV
👍19❤16😢3
🔺 “History leaves fingerprints.” As American journalist Lindsey Snell revealed the true identity of Syria’s chargé d’affaires, a question arises: How has a terrorist group and its members been rebranded and gained international legitimacy as the country’s rulers? #Mideastream @PresstvPrograms
👍32👏6❤4
Iran and Pakistan are each other’s ‘strategic depth’: Top security official Major General Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), met with Pakistan’s Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi, reaffirming that Tehran and Islamabad have historically served as each other’s "strategic depth" and pledging to elevate bilateral cooperation to unprecedented levels. @PressTV
❤23👍11
▶️ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says the Islamic Republic never sought to create unrest in the region and that it was the US and the Israeli regime that disrupted peace in West Asia. @PressTV
👏26👍18👎1
Showing the 12 most recent of 293 posts we hold for @presstv. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank — 3,432 of 1,151,006entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 107 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it. The 24 listed below are the most frequent namers; the rest are counted above but not each listed.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 8 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.
| Label | Press TV |
|---|---|
| Description | Iranian state-owned English-language channel |
| X / Twitter | @presstv |
| Official site | https://presstv.ir |
This handle named by sources this register does not control and did not measure — each shown exactly as found, attributed by name, dated to when it was read.
Hacker News
This handle was named once in a Hacker News comment or story, via the public Algolia search API. HN comment and story text has no confirmed reuse licence, so nothing quoted from either is reproduced here — only that a mention exists, when, and by whom, with a link to read it at the source.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Press TV” (@presstv), 94,048 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/presstv.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.