Sangsad Bangladesh Television ( bn, সংসদ বাংলাদেশ টেলিভিশন), often known as Sangsad Television ( bn, সংসদ টেলিভিশন; ), branded on-air as Sangsad Bangladesh ( bn, সংসদ বাংলাদেশ), is a Bangladeshi state-owned parliamentary television channel, which is the sister of
Bangladesh Television
Bangladesh Television ( bn, বাংলাদেশ টেলিভিশন), commonly known by its acronym BTV ( bn, বিটিভি), is the state-owned television network of Bangladesh. The network was originally established as the East ...
. It was launched on 25 January 2011, and broadcasts live from the
National Parliament
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of Bangladesh.
Other than that, variety of other programming, such as ones that are educational and regarding development, is broadcast during the channel's last two hours of daily broadcasting. However, in case if there is no parliamentary session, Sangsad Television would broadcast daily from 18:00 to 20:00 (
BST). The channel is operated by the
Ministry of Information, and is a terrestrial television channel. It is also a
free-to-air
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television channel.
History
On 11 February 2010, member of Parliament Benzir Ahmed proposed the launch of a television channel named 'Sangsad Bangladesh' for the need to broadcast live parliament sessions to the people.
Sangsad Television began broadcasting on 25 January 2011 on both satellite and
digital terrestrial television
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, after the legislature voted in favor of establishing a channel dedicated to live parliamentary broadcasts, using the facilities of Bangladesh Television.
On 9 February 2020, due to technical difficulties, Sangsad Television did not show live parliamentary broadcasts, and instead broadcast music programming that day.
In March 2020, during the