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Bangladeshi television channel

For the unrelated Canadian Bengali language television channel operated by Asian Television Network, see ATN Bangla (Canada).

Television channel

ATN Bangla (Bengali: এটিএন বাংলা), 'ATN' being the acronym of the unused Asian Television Network,^[1] is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cabletelevision channel owned by Multimedia Production Company.

It is based in the Kawran Bazar neighborhood of Dhaka. ATN Bangla is the first privately owned television channel and the first to broadcast on satellite in Bangladesh. The channel began broadcasting on 15 July 1997. ATN Bangla is broadcast in over 130 countries worldwide.^[2]

History

As nothing of the kind existed in the country at the time, Mahfuzur Rahman had plans to establish a privately owned satellite television channel in Bangladesh, after seeing the popularity of Zee TV in India.^[3] He later rented a one-hour slot to broadcast Benga