Channel One (Bangladesh)
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Channel One is a Bengali language
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

 satellite television channel from Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

. It started broadcasting from Dhaka
Dhaka
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...

 on 24 January 1993.

It is owned by the One Entertainment Limited, a sister concern of One Group.

This third generation television channel is the last private television in Bangladesh. This is an infotainment channel by nature. Its office is in Gulshan of Dhaka city. News times are 8 am, 12 pm, 2.30 pm, 6.30 pm, 7.30 pm, 10.00 pm, 12.30 am and 3.00 am in Bangladesh Time.

The channel's journalists include Saiful Hasan, Saiful A Chowdhury, Shujon Mehedi, Shamim Al Amin and K U Biplob. Its producers include AKM Nazim, MAK Tuhin, Rana Islam and Iqbal Khokon. It uses final cut pro machines for video editing, and is the only channel that uses ENPS
ENPS
ENPS is a software application developed by the Associated Press's Broadcast Technology division for producing, editing, timing, organizing and running news broadcasts...

for news networking.

Channel Owner's include: Business Tycoon Giasuddin Mamun, Tareq Rahman, etc.

Shut Down

The channel went off air on 27 April 2010 at 6:41 PM while it was broadcasting it's news bulletin as the Awami League govt. decided to stop it's operation on some licensing issues. But, the channel one authority claims that they have not done anything illegal. Journalists say that the Awami League govt. has stopped it as this channel is broadcasting news that goes against the ruling govt.

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