NTV ( bn, এনটিভি), an acronym of less commonly used National Television,
is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel based in the BSEC Building in Karwan Bazar, Dhaka. It was launched on 2 July 2003, and is one of Bangladesh's most popular television channels. NTV is owned by International Television Channel Limited, with
Mosaddek Ali Falu
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, a businessman and former vice president of the
Bangladesh Nationalist Party, being the channel's chairman.
History
On 10 February 2003, NTV was announced to set operations in April of that year, as Bangladesh's previous privately owned television channel,
Ekushey Television was shut down in 2002. It had also announced a partnership with
CNN
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.
However, its official broadcasts started on 3 July 2003. In 2004, Falu bought NTV and pushed its license approval further.
In August 2006, the
United Kingdom
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-based NTV Europe was launched and targeted the Bangladeshi community throughout
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on
Sky
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channel 826, but stopped broadcasting a year later. On 26 February 2007, a massive fire took place at the BSEC building in Karwan Bazar, killing three people and injuring over a hundred. As a result, both NTV and its sister,
RTV, temporarily ceased operations and forced the channel to broadcast reruns after resuming broadcasts. They worked with
Banglavision to broadcast their news onto NTV since they were unable to do their own. NTV Europe was relaunched on Sky channel 834 in the United Kingdom in August 2008.
In September 2011, NTV became the first television channel in Bangladesh to receive an ISO certificate for its contribution to its broadcast management. Mike Bloise handed it to the channel's chairman, Falu.
On 14 April 2012, NTV Europe was replaced by
Channel 9 on Sky channel 834. However, NTV Europe started broadcasting on Sky channel 852 sixteen days later., but due to a reshuffle, it moved to channel 838 on 19 August 2014.
On 31 October 2014, another fire broke out in the BSEC building on 11:48 at morning, which once again led to the shut down of both NTV and RTV. NTV resumed transmissions later on that day. In 2016, Falu resigned from the
Bangladesh Nationalist Party as vice chairman. NTV was one of the nine Bangladeshi television channels to sign an agreement with
Bdnews24.com
bdnews24.com is an English and Bengali language news website of Bangladesh.
History
In 2005, the company launched initially as the country's first exclusively web-based news agency, and was known as BDNEWS. The website bdnews24.com developed b ...
to subscribe to a video-based news agency run by children called ''Prism'' in May 2016. NTV aired the
Miss World Bangladesh pageant in 2017. On 1 May 2018, as a part of another reshuflle, NTV Europe moved to Sky channel 757 due to the fact that the International genre had started to begin at channel 701. NTV's old slot was used for
Lifetime
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. It was moved again to channel 780 due to Sky's reshuffle of its international section by language in 2019. In December 2018, NTV began broadcasting using the
Bangabandhu-1 satellite. On 26 February 2019, the second anime series of ''
Chibi Maruko-chan'', dubbed in Bengali, premiered on NTV.
Recently NTV authority has taken an initiative to promote its website. As a result, NTV online has been started its journey more elaborately to keep people updated about latest news, entertainment program, sports, tech, travel, automobile, lifestyle, education and so on.
Programming
NTV's programming is diverse and consists of news coverage, soap operas, edutainment, religious, and political programs.
Drama
* ''
111: A Nelson Number'' (2007–2008)
* ''
Aim in Life
''Aim in Life'' is a Bangladeshi drama serial produced by Kazi Riton, written and directed by Masud Sezan. This drama serial aired on NTV, and was first aired on June 14, 2008 and last aired on January 15, 2009. The story revolves around the c ...
'' (2008–2009)
* ''Bhalobasha Kare Koy'' (2018–2019)
* ''Family Crisis'' (2019-2021)
* ''Family Friends'' (2022)
* ''
Fnf'' (2010)
* ''
Golpogulo Amader
''Golpogulo Amader'' () is a Bangladeshi Bengali language television drama series that premiered on NTV on 8 December 2017 on and ended on 29 June 2018 completing 57 episodes. Two episodes were aired on each Thursday and Friday in a week. It is ...
'' (2017–2018)
* ''Hawai Mithai'' (2020–2021)
* ''House 44'' (2015)
* ''
House Full
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'' (2008–2009)
* ''House No. 96'' (2020–2021)
* ''Joint Family''
* ''
Kache Ashar Golpo
Kache Ashar Golpo (''Story of coming closer'') is anthology series of telefilms promoted as a "collection of brave and unusual love stories" which premiered in January 2011 on NTV. The series airs multiple episodes only during special holidays s ...
'' (Season 1; 2011)
* ''Maya Mosnod''
* ''Mehoman'' (2021–present)
* ''
Porer Meye
''Porer Meye'' is a Bangladeshi drama serial produced by Kazi Riton. The drama is directed by Habib Shakil and starring Intekhab Dinar, Sadia Jahan Prova, Dilara Zaman, Muntaheena Chowdhury Toya, Golam Kibria Tanvir, Shawon, Elora Gohor, Ariya Ar ...
'' (2020–2021)
* ''
Ronger Manush
''Ronger Manush'' ( bn, রঙের মানুষ) is a Bangladeshi drama television series that aired on NTV in 2004. It was the directorial debut of Salauddin Lavlu. The spin-off series ''Kemon Ache Ronger Manushera'' was made in 2014, and pr ...
'' (2004–2005)
* ''Shohorali'' (2019-2020)
* ''Songshar'' (2016)
Reality
* ''
CloseUp1
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Close Up-1 2005 (season 1)
The final performance round of the show began with our National Anthe ...
'' (2005-2012)
* ''Tomakey Khujche Bangladesh''
Acquired programming
Animated
* ''
Chibi Maruko-chan''
Drama
* ''
Kuruluş: Osman''
* ''
Marumo no Okite
is a Japanese television series which premiered on Fuji TV on April 24, 2011. This television series stars Sadao Abe as Mamoru Takagi, a public relations officer with a stationery company. It also stars child actor Fuku Suzuki and child actress ...
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See also
*
List of television stations in Bangladesh
References
External links
*
NTV Europe
{{Bengali-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Television channels in Bangladesh