Diganta Television

Diganta Television
CountryBangladesh
Broadcast areaNationwide
HeadquartersSyed Nazrul Islam Sharoni, Purana Paltan, Dhaka[1]
Programming
Language(s)Bengali
Ownership
OwnerDiganta Media Corporation
History
Launched28 August 2008; 16 years ago (2008-08-28)
Closed6 May 2013; 11 years ago (2013-05-06)
Links
Websitewww.digantatv.online

Diganta Television (Bengali: দিগন্ত টেলিভিশন; lit. 'horizon television')[2] was a Bangladeshi Bengali-language privately owned satellite and cable news television channel founded in 2007.[3] The channel was owned Diganta Media Corporation, which also owns the daily newspaper Daily Naya Diganta. Diganta Television officially began broadcasting on 28 August 2008,[4] and was shut down along with Islamic TV on 6 May 2013, both of which were assumed to be supporting the Jamaat-e-Islami political party, and as a result faced boycotts during the 2013 Shahbag protests.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Contact". Diganta Television. Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  2. ^ Biswas, Sailendra (2000). "Samsad Bengali-English dictionary. 3rd ed". Calcutta: Sahitya Samsad. p. 969.
  3. ^ "Diganta Television". Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  4. ^ "A Short Report on Diganta Television". Diganta Television. Archived from the original on 10 July 2011.
  5. ^ "Diganta, Islamic TV go off the air". The Daily Star. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Artistes call to boycott Diganta TV". BDNews24. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.