ATN Bangla

ATN Bangla (Asian Television Network) is a Bengali-language digital cable television channel. It transmits from its studio in Dhaka, Bangladesh.This is the first satellite based channel in Bangladesh. The channel is transmitted in South Asia, the Middle East,Antarctica,Africa, Europe, and North America. The channel offers a wide variety of programming including news, movies, dramas, talk shows, and more. The channel started broadcast in South Asia on 16 July 1997, though their website shows 15 July. They officially started their broadcasting
on 16 July. Broadcasts to Europe began in 2001. The channel started broadcasting news from 16 August 2001.
One of its programmes, "Amrao pari" (We, too, Can), won the International Children's Day of Broadcasting Award at the 32nd International Emmy Awards in 2004. The documentary was shot and directed by 18 teenagers from Bangladesh, and was focused on the story of Abul Khaer, a 9-year-old boy, who stopped a passenger train from approaching a disjointed railtrack, and prevented a train disaster.
In 2016, the channel was reprimanded by British telecom regulator Ofcom due to violations of domestic product placement regulations (which require placements to be "editorially justified", not place "undue prominence", and have on-air disclosure). ATN Bangla attempted to defend the violations by arguing that its local subsidiary did not directly benefit from the placements (as the brands placed do not operate in Europe), but Ofcom still found the channel liable for violations of its broadcasting code.
Mahfuzur Rahman is the chairman & managing director of ATN Bangla