NTV 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 based in 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 operation in 2003. It is one of the most popular Bengali TV channels in the country. In the anniversary of the channel, the founder expressed interest in creating NTV2 to satisfy the watchers further, however he is now in jail and all of his properties have been seized by the government

Government

Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...

. The channel broadcasts coverage of news, soap operas, educational, religious and politics related programs. The chairman and managing director of NTV is Mosaddek Ali Falu

Mosaddek Ali Falu

Alhaj Mosaddek Ali Falu is a Bangladeshi politician and a former parliamentarian from BNP. He served as the political adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Begum Khaleda Zia between 2001 and 2006...

, a politician from BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party , commonly referred to as the BNP, is the mainstream center-right political party in Bangladesh. BNP ruled Bangladesh total 18 years since her independence, the longest than any other party in Bangladesh...

, now in jail.

History

• August 2006: Channel S
  Channel S
  Channel S is a UK-based, free-to-air television channel targeting the British Bangladeshi community. The channel was established on 16 December 2004, by Mahee Ferdous Jalil - a Bangladeshi businessman in London. On Sky it had a timesharing deal with ATN Global, and then in 2005 it started to...
  
  , a UK-based Bengali/Sylheti TV channel, acquired the rights to show NTV programmes throughout the UK
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   and Europe
  Europe
  Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
  
   on Sky EPG channel 826, however stopped broadcasting a year later.

• 26 February 2007: NTV, along with its sister station RTV
  RTV (Bangladesh)
  RTV is a satellite television channel broadcast from Bangladesh. It was launched on 26 December 2005 by the same people that ran NTV Bangla. It mainly broadcasts programs in Bangla...
  
  , was forced off the air temporarily due to a massive fire at the station building. Three people died and over 100 were injured in the blaze. The fire caused NTV to broadcast reruns of programming. Since NTV was not able to broadcast their own news, they worked with Banglavision
  Banglavision
  BanglaVision is a satellite TV channel broadcast from Bangladesh. It began its formal transmission on 24 August 1995 through satellite Telstar 10.....
  
   to broadcast Banglavision news on the NTV channel.

• In August 2008 NTV started to broadcast again in the UK after 1 year off the air, on Sky channel 834.

• In September 2011, NTV achieved the ISO certificate, as a first Bangladeshi TV channel.

External links

• Official site
• NTV Bangla on Satellite TV in the United States