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BANGLADESH: All but 13 satellite channels on air again ESPN, Star Sports, Star One, HBO and VH1 remain off the air The Daily Star Monday, July 31, 2006 Cable operators, who switched off all foreign TV channels Saturday protesting a government order, resumed broadcast yesterday afternoon except 13 channels for which they do not have government permission. Bangladesh Satellite Cable Network Owners Association (SCNOA) and Dhaka Cable Forum (DCF) yesterday said they would stop broadcasting the 13 popular channels in compliance with the government order. On receiving a letter from the Cable Operators Association of Bangladesh (Coab), the government issued an order on July 24 prohibiting broadcast of ESPN, Star Sports, TEN Sports, Set Max, Zee Classic, Zee Action, Zee Trendz, Zee Premier, VH1, Zoom, HBO, Star One, Disney. "We have no other option but to stop providing these popular channels since there is a government prohibition although we know our subscribers will miss the channels a lot," SCNOA President Mir Hossain Akhtar told The Daily Star. The service providers will resume broadcasting those channels as soon as the government withdraws its decision, he added. The SCNOA and DCF went on a wildcat strike from Saturday protesting the government order. The government in a handout yesterday requested all cable operators to continue providing all channels approved by the government except the prohibited 13 channels. Date Posted: 7/31/2006 -- Members of the ZESTMedia list exchange news and views about the media in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan. Write to [email protected] If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTMedia by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ Get all ZESTMedia mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ theZESTcommunity------------------------------------------------- ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
