Saiful, former president of the Cable Operators Association of Bangladesh or COAB, said the digitalisation of the sector will increase the revenue of the government along with the income of the broadcasters and the distributors.
In Saudi Arabia, the US or England, the customers pay $25 per month for the service. “They don’t want to bear the cost of cleaning the feed for Bangladesh. It means they are giving the ads targeting the viewers in Bangladesh.”īut ABM Saiful Hossain, managing director of distributor One Alliance, claimed the foreign channels do not want to send a clean feed to Bangladesh because they consider it to be a small market. The former DG of BTV said the advertisements aired in Bangladesh by foreign channels are different from others. The broadcasters must not give whatever feed they have to a big market like Bangladesh.”
“They broadcast only Middle-Eastern advertisements there, even by dubbing into Arabic.
Haroon said the Indian TV stations provide Saudi Arabia and other Middle-Eastern countries with clean feed and no Indian ads, prioritising Arabian content. WHY AREN'T BROADCASTERS PROVIDING BANGLADESH WITH CLEAN FEED? The ministry then makes its decision in consultation with BTV, which reviews the feed. In Bangladesh, the distributors apply to the ministry to air foreign channels. The distributors can also clean the feed by cutting the advertisements. The channels provide the distributors of some countries with clean feed. SM Haroon-or-Rashid, a former director-general of state-run Bangladesh Television, said clean feeds are aired in two ways. After the government launched a mobile court drive on Oct 1, the distributors and operators blocked the foreign channels altogether as they did not have the technology to cut the ads to make the feed clean. The government took steps to block the foreign channels with advertisements six months ago, but the initiative was delayed. Although the law bans advertisements aired through foreign channels, the distributors and operators have been broadcasting the channels. The government passed the orders to block the channels by Sept 30 in line with the Cable Television Network Act. The distributors and cable operators say more time is needed to air foreign channels without ads. Owners of Bangladeshi TV channels have welcomed the decision. They include BBC, CNN, Star Sports, TEN Sports, Zee Bangla, Star Jalsha, SonyLIV, which are very popular in Bangladesh.Īmid a debate over the issue, Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud said the government will not prevent the distributors and operators from airing foreign channels with a clean feed. The distributors and cable operators on Friday stopped the broadcast of at least 60 foreign channels that air advertisements following orders from the information and broadcasting ministry.
If you have older Xfinity equipment, you may need to upgrade before adding International programming.The TV stations do not want to send a clean feed to Bangladesh because it is a small market, while cable operators do not have the technology to cut the ads from the feed, according to people in the industry. Please note that not all channels and packages are available in all areas, and may require a compatible Xfinity TV Box.