Dawn News HD is a Pakistani 24-hour Urdu news channel. Based in
Karachi
Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...
, the station is a subsidiary of
Pakistan Herald Publications Limited (PHPL), Pakistan's largest English-language media group.
The test transmission of the station occurred on 25 May 2007, and the channel went live on 23 July 2007. Originally broadcast in English, on 15 May 2010, Dawn News converted into an Urdu news channel after successful test transmission of four hours a day. The conversion was mainly due to its financial crisis and thin viewership in the country.
[DawnNews changes to Urdu]
The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 15 May 2010, Retrieved 4 June 2018
Express 24/7 replaced it as Pakistan's only English news channel briefly, until it too was shut down by Express Media Group for financial reasons.
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After a brief test transmission, the channel went live in 2007.]
See also
* ''Dawn
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* Dawn Group of Newspapers
* Television in Pakistan
Television in Pakistan started in 1964 and the first live transmission of Pakistan Television began on 26 November 1964, in Lahore.[List of news channels in Pakistan
This is a list of news channels in Pakistan. These are Pakistani general, business and defunct news channels with their headquarters, launched year, closed year and languages arranged alphabetically.
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24-hour television news channels in Pakistan
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Urdu-language television channels
Dawn Media Group
Television stations in Karachi
Television stations in Pakistan
2007 establishments in Pakistan