Dawn News

DAWN News
Country	Pakistan
Broadcast area	Pakistan; International
Network	Dawn
Headquarters	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Programming
Language(s)	English (2007-10); Urdu (2010-present)
Picture format	HDTV MPEG-4
Ownership
Owner	Dawn Media Group
Sister channels	CityFM89
History
Launched	24 July 2007; 17 years ago
Links
Website	dawnnews.tv (Urdu); dawn.com (English)

Dawn News is a Pakistani 24-hour Urdu news channel. Based in Karachi, the station is a subsidiary of Pakistan Herald Publications Limited (PHPL), Pakistan's largest English-language media group.^[1]^[2]

The test transmission of the station occurred on 25 May 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 mainly due to its financial crisis and thin viewership in the country.^[3]

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.^[3]

After a brief test transmission, the channel went live in 2007.^[4]

References

^ Dawn News (TV Channel) on tv.com.pk website Archived 29 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 June 2018
^ Parvez Jabri (22 May 2017). "Media will be facilitated in upcoming budget". Business Recorder (newspaper). Retrieved 4 June 2018.
^ ^a ^b DawnNews changes to Urdu The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 15 May 2010, Retrieved 4 June 2018
^ Greenslade, Roy (28 May 2007). "Pakistan's first English TV news channel launched" – via The Guardian.

[1] Dawn News (TV Channel) on tv.com.pk website Archived 29 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 June 2018

[2] Parvez Jabri (22 May 2017). "Media will be facilitated in upcoming budget". Business Recorder (newspaper). Retrieved 4 June 2018.

[Tribune-3] DawnNews changes to Urdu The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 15 May 2010, Retrieved 4 June 2018

[4] Greenslade, Roy (28 May 2007). "Pakistan's first English TV news channel launched" – via The Guardian.

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v t e Dawn
Editors	Pothan Joseph (1944) Altaf Husain (1944–1965) Z. A. Suleri (1965) Jamil Ansari (1965–1966) Yusuf Haroon (1966) Jamil Ansari (1966–1969) Altaf Gauhar (1969–1973) Mazhar Ali Khan (1973) Ahmad Ali Khan (1973–2000) Saleem Asmi (2000–2003) Tahir Mirza (2003–2006) Abbas Nasir (2006–2010) Zaffar Abbas (2010–present)
People	Muhammad Ali Jinnah Abdullah Haroon Yusuf Haroon Mahmoud Haroon
Magazines	Young World
Defunct	The Herald The Star
Coverage	Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report Dawn leaks
Related media	City FM 89 Dawn News Latifi Press
Columnists	Sharif al Mujahid Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah Muhammad Ali Siddiqui Zubeida Mustafa Mahbub Jamal Zahedi Omar Kureishi Ardeshir Cowasjee Rauf Parekh Muhammad Ziauddin Sabihuddin Ghausi Nadeem F. Paracha Zahid Hussain Irfan Husain I.A. Rehman Rashed Rahman Hasan Abidi Asif Noorani Murtaza Razvi Mustansar Hussain Tarar Cyril Almeida Akhtar Balouch Sohail Sangi

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States

See also

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