Somoy TV

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Somoy TV
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Somoy TV Logo
Country Bangladesh
Broadcast areaNationwide
Headquarters89, Bir Uttam CR Dutta Road, Banglamotor, Dhaka
Programming
Language(s) Bengali
Picture format 1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 16:9 576i for SDTV sets)
Ownership
Owner City Group
Key peopleFazlur Rahman (Chairman)
Sister channels Ekhon
History
Launched17 April 2011;12 years ago (2011-04-17)
Links
Website www.somoynews.tv
SOMOY TV
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2015–present
Genre News (In Bengali)
Subscribers22 million [1]
Total views12,361,670,028 [1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2019 [2]
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2019 [2]
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg10,000,000 subscribers2021 [3]
Last updated: 10 Feb 2023

Somoy Television is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable news 24-hour Bengali television channel, headquartered at 89, Bir Uttam CR Dutta Road, Banglamotor, Dhaka. [4] Multiple fact-checking organizations list Somoy TV as the top source in Bangladesh publishing fake news. [5] [6]

Contents

After a test transmission on 10 October 2010, it has been commercially on-air since 17 April 2011. [7] The channel is transmitted using satellite Bangabandhu-1, the first satellite of Bangladesh, operated by Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited. [8] [9] The channel is owned by Somoy Media Limited, a subsidiary of the City Group. It holds the distinction of being the most subscribed Bangladeshi YouTube channel, the first YouTube channel to get the Diamond Play Button. [10] Now, the Somoy TV YouTube channel has more than 20 million subscribers. [11]

History

Somoy TV received government permission for broadcasting in October 2009. [12] It started a test transmission on 10 October 2010 and has been commercially on-air since 17 April 2011. Before its official launch, Somoy TV was sold to City Group on 8 June 2010. [13] In November 2011, Somoy TV, along with three other Bangladeshi television channels, signed an agreement with UNICEF to air children's programming for one minute. [14]

On 1 January 2014, unidentified individuals threw bombs on an official vehicle of Somoy TV, injuring the driver, in Chittagong City. Journalists at the network blamed activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir. [15]

On 1 April 2015, Bangladesh Police seized transmission equipment of Somoy TV outside the office of former Prime Minister and Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Khaleda Zia. [16]

In May 2016, drug dealers assaulted the Somoy TV Cox's Bazar District correspondent, Sujauddin Rubel, for his reports on drug trafficking. [17]

In September 2016, Attorney General of Bangladesh, Mahbubey Alam, filled a complaint with the Bangladesh Supreme Court over comments on a TV show that discussed the war crimes trial of Mir Quasem Ali. Somoy TV was forced to submit transcripts of the show to the court. [18] [19]

On 30 November 2017, the son of the Minister of Land, Shamsur Rahman Sherif, attacked and injured four journalists including one of Somoy TV. [20] On 19 May 2019, Somoy TV, along with five other channels, began broadcasting via the Bangabandhu-1 satellite after signing an agreement with BSCL. [21] [22]

The official YouTube channel of Somoy TV was hacked by unknown hackers on 16 October 2022, subsequently being renamed to 'Ethereum 2.0', after the Ethereum cryptocurrency. The channel was reverted to its original form ten minutes after the hacking incident, but its name was not reverted until later. [23]

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