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 The headquarters of Jamuna Television in Baridhara | |
| Country | Bangladesh |
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| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Jamuna Future Park Complex, Progoti Shoroni,Baridhara,Dhaka[1] |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 16:9SDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Jamuna Group |
| Key people | Fahim Ahmed (CEO) |
| History | |
| Launched | 5 April 2014; 10 years ago (2014-04-05) |
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| Website | www |
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| Years active | 2017–present | ||||||
| Genre | News (inBengali) | ||||||
| Subscribers | 25.8 million[2] | ||||||
| Total views | 21.816 billion[2] | ||||||
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Last updated: 22 September 2024 | |||||||
Jamuna Television (Bengali:যমুনা টেলিভিশন; in reference to theJamuna river), commonly known asJamuna TV, stylized asᴊamuna|tv, is a privately owned Bangladeshi satellite and cable news and current affairs television channel. It is owned by theJamuna Group, and was founded by the company's founder and former chairmanNurul Islam Babul in 2014.[4] The channel's headquarters are located in theJamuna Future Park Complex at Progoti Shoroni inBaridhara. OnYouTube, Jamuna Television is the second most subscribedBangladeshi YouTube channel afterSomoy TV.[5][6]
In 2002, Jamuna Television was granted an NOC certificate to broadcast for five years. They were given rights to broadcast both on terrestrial and satellite television. In 2005, without explanation, theBNP-led government revoked its broadcasting rights, and after theHigh Court permitted Jamuna Television to broadcast, the government appealed against the decision.[7]
Although its certificate had expired by then, the original channel began test broadcasting on 15 October 2009. TheBTRC shut the channel down on 19 November after the channel had allegedly been broadcasting illegally.[4][8] In 2010, the High Court ruled that the government order to stop broadcasting of Jamuna TV was valid.[9] On 29 July 2013, the channel was once again granted a license to relaunch.[10] Jamuna Television was officially launched on 5 April 2014. British foreign correspondentSimon Dring, who was previously the managing director ofEkushey Television, joined the channel as a staff member.[11]
Jamuna Television was one of the nine Bangladeshi television channels to sign an agreement withBdnews24.com to subscribe to a video-based news agency run by children calledPrism in May 2016.[12] In December 2018, journalists working for Jamuna Television andJugantor were attacked inNawabganj Upazila of Dhaka, injuring 10 people.[13] Jamuna Television was temporarily taken off-air during the2018 Bangladeshi general election.[14]
In January 2019, three journalists working for Jamuna Television were assaulted by eight to ten people in a rehabilitation center inBogra.Police arrested three suspects allegedly involved in the incident.[15] On 19 May 2019, Jamuna Television, along with five other channels, began broadcasting via theBangladesh-1 satellite after signing an agreement withBSCL.[16][17] On 5 March 2022, Fahim Ahmed was appointed as the CEO of Jamuna Television.[18]
In 2015, a program calledInvestigation 360 was accused of defaming the then environment minister, Hasan Mahmud, for airing a report related to Climate Fund.[19] A defamation case was filed against the mass media under sections 501 and 502 for the investigative report that 35 crore taka was spent on the construction of the Sheikh Russell Aviary Park inRangunia from the Climate Fund.[20]
On 6 November 2016, Jamuna TV's senior reporter Shakil Hasan and video journalist Shaheen Alam were attacked while reporting on an illegal polythene bag manufacturing factory at Devidas Lane in Chawkbazar,Dhaka. An attempt was made to set the journalist on fire by pouring kerosene on him. In 2018, thePRAN-RFL group filed a lawsuit. Ravi and the National Board of Revenue filed a case. Jamuna Television's cable broadcast was stopped in the wake of the11th National Assembly elections held on 30 December 2018.[21][22]
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