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Bangladesh channel Ekushey TV back on air after five-year ban
 

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(2 April 2007 6:00 pm)

 

MUMBAI: A Bangladeshi television channel Ekushey TV (ETV) which had been banned for alleged political bias has been allowed to resume broadcasting.

It won a five-year legal battle.
ETV media reports state was taken off air in 2002 after the broadcasting authority under the then-prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia accused it of showing programmes that were biased towards her predecessor, Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League.
ETV along with the state-owned Bangladesh Television will operate both terrestrial and satellite networks.

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