Formation | 2009 |
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Headquarters | Bashundhara Residential Area, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Region served | Bangladesh |
Official language | Bengali |
Managing Director | Sayem Sobhan Anvir |
Parent organization | Bashundhara Group |
Website | www |
East West Media Group is a media conglomerate located in Bashundhara Residential Area, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is a subsidiary of Bashundhara Group. [1] [2] Mostafa Kamal Mohiuddin is the chairman of the Media Group. [3] Novelist and former editor of Kaler Kantho Imdadul Haq Milan is the brand ambassador of the Media Group. [4] Naem Nizam is Director of the group. [5]
The company was established in 2009. [1] In 2016 the company was awarded by the National Board of Revenue for being a high tax payer. [6] [7]
ATN Bangla, 'ATN' being the acronym of the unused Asian Television Network, is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television 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.
Imdadul Haq Milan is a Bangladeshi novelist and Journalist. He was editor of the daily newspaper Kaler Kantho. He is the recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1992 and Ekushey Padak in 2019.
Abed Khan is a Bangladeshi journalist and columnist. He has been an influential figure in the Bangladeshi news industry in various capacities for five decades. Khan is currently editor and publisher of the Dhaka-based daily Jagaran and is the former chief executive officer and chief editor of ATN News.
Kaler Kantho is one of the most popular Bengali newspapers in Bangladesh. It is an enterprise of East-West Media Group, a sister concern of Bangladesh's leading business conglomerate Bashundhara Group. The same group owns Bangladesh Pratidin, Daily Sun, News24, Radio Capital and Banglanews24.
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Daily Sun is an English-language daily newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh, founded in 2010. It also operates an English news portal www.daily-sun.com and a Bangla news portal www.bangla.daily-sun.com apart from maintaining a website www.edailysun.com for the e-version of the published copies. The main paper has 24 pages including 4 pages on business and 2 pages on sports which is called "Winner". 'the daily sun' is owned by East West Media Group, a concern of Bashundhara Group.
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