DAWN NEWS
Ø Introduction
of Dawn News
Dawn News is one in every of Pakistan's 24-hour Urdu news
channel. Based in metropolis, the station may be a subsidiary of Islamic
Republic of Pakistan Herald Publications restricted (PHPL), Pakistan's largest English-language
media cluster.
The check transmission of the station occurred on twenty-five
could 2007, and the channel went live on 23 July 2007. Originally broadcast in
English, on 15 May 2010, Dawn News converted into an Urdu news channel after
successful test transmission of four hours a day. The conversion was
principally because of its monetary crisis and skinny viewership within the
country.
Express 24/7 replaced it as Pakistan's only English news
channel briefly, until it too was shut down by Express Media Group for
financial reasons.
Dawn News' test transmission was launched by former
President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf.[4] The complete launch of the channel
coincided with the result of the Supreme Court case which cleared the Chief
Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who had been suspended by General
Musharraf. The channel was at first housed in Haroon House, the head-office of
PHPL, but later moved to its current premises in West Wharf, Karachi.
The channel has an online stream available on its website
for foreign viewing.
The founding father of Islamic Republic of Pakistan,
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah launched the Dawn newspaper in the 1940s - it
is the oldest English language newspaper in Pakistan.
Dawn News was launched as Pakistan's first English news and
current affairs channel and vows to "provide its viewers with a medium
that is responsible, credible and balanced." The channel has bureaux in
metropolis, Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta and city, with studio facilities in
Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. Equipped with progressive technology, including
digital satellite news gathering (DSNG) capability and broadband global area
networks (BGANs), the channel has the capacity to provide live transmission
from remote areas via satellite, so sanctioning comprehensive and prompt news
coverage from across the country.
After a short check transmission, the channel went continue
to exist twenty three July 2007. Over the past few years the channel has
established its fame being the most credible voice in the murky pool of
electronic media, in Pakistan.
Keeping in view the public demand, Dawn News had decided to
launch a separate Urdu news channel. But before launching the separate channel,
it had started a three-hour Urdu transmission within its English channel’s
airtime, which was later increased to 12 hours. The channel formally place
associate degree finish to its English programming on fifteen could 2010.
Dawn News has broken a number of big stories. It was Dawn
News which exclusively broadcast the footage of the assassin of former Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto. It was Dawn News that got official confirmation from
Pakistan that lone surviving gunman of Mumbai terror attacks – Ajmal Kasab –
was a Pakistani.
Besides, Dawn News has coated major events together with Lal
house of worship, Islamabad operation, lawyers’ movement, military operations
in tribal areas and Pakistani general election, 2008. Most of the time, the
channel beat its rivals despite limited resources.
Dawn News transmission is watched all told urban areas of
Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It additionally has access to the agricultural
population, wherever the cable reaches. Dawn News is in agreement with many
television channels, which include BBC World News, Sky News, ABC News and
Aljazeera and can be watched in the US, Europe, Middle East and Africa. In UK,
it may be accessed through Sky cable at Channel 845.
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