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Television is one of the most popular forms of media and information in Bangladesh.[1] It was one of the first countries in South Asia to introduce television on 25 December 1964, in the then East Pakistan under the state-owned television network Pakistan Television Corporation in its capital, Dhaka. After the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, the Dhaka television station of PTV was renamed to Bangladesh Television, which had a monopoly on the country's television industry until 1997, with the launch of ATN Bangla on satellite television. Since then, the number of privately owned television channels saw a tremendous rise in the Bangladeshi television market.
As of 2019, 64% of households in Bangladesh had a television set,[2] with cable television dominating the pay television market there.[3] This is a tremendous increase compared to the data from 1975, when less than 0.2% of Bangladeshi households had a television set.[4]
Bangladesh Television currently serves as the sole television broadcaster provided on terrestrial television,[1] as Ekushey Television, formerly provided on terrestrial from its launch in 2000, was shut down two years later, although it did resume broadcasting later but on satellite television.[5] All television sets in Bangladesh shall be licensed for ownership.[6] Bangladesh has a total of forty television channels currently on the air, thirty-six of which are privately owned. Several television channels were even taken off the air. Pirate television stations have also existed in Bangladesh.[7]
- ^ a b "Bangladesh Television, Local TV". Bangladesh.com. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ "Beximco Communications Delivers A New World Of TV Entertainment To Bangladesh". Forbes. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
- ^ "Al Jazeera English Channel on Bangladesh's first-ever DTH platform". Al Jazeera. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ "The Power of Television". The Daily Star. May 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ "Bangladesh's ETV resumes telecast as ban ends". Reuters. 30 March 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ "Govt revises television licence fees". Dhaka Tribune. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ Mehedi, Rashed (17 February 2016). অবৈধ টিভি চ্যানেলের রমরমা বাণিজ্য. Samakal. Retrieved 15 February 2022.