The private satellite television channel CSB went off air Thursday evening, as Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) ordered the Focus Multimedia Company to shut down on grounds of going on air sans valid clearance, reports UNB.
A senior journalist of CSB said a group of officers of the BTRC went to the TV head office at Uttara in the capital in the evening with orders for immediate suspension of broadcast.
They handed over a show-cause notice asking the CSB authority to give a satisfactory reply within a week as to how it got the no-objection certificate for allocation of frequency from the Ministry of Information to air its 24-hour newscast.
The BTRC officials asked them to "switch off" telecasting its programme. The CSB authorities, in compliance with the orders, rang down at 6:34pm.
The CSB, the first of its kind airing round-the-clock news in the country, formally went on air on March 26 this year. The CSB news channel caught the eyes of the viewers by this time.
TV channel CSB shut down
FE Team | Published: September 07, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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