Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Dawn News was Pakistan's 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. The test
transmission of the station occurred on May 25, 2007, and the channel
went live on July 23, 2007. On May 15, 2010, Dawn News converted
into an Urdu news channel after successful test transmission of four
hours a day. The conversion is mainly due to its financial crisis and
thin viewership in the country. Now Express 24/7
replaced it as the Pakistan's only English news channel for a brief
time, which was also then shut down by Express Media Group for financial
reasons.
Dawn News' Test Transmission was launched by former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf. The complete launch of the channel coincided with the result of the Supreme Court case which cleared the Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry,
who had been suspended by General Musharraf. The channel was initially
housed in Haroon House, the head-office of PHPL, but later moved to its
current premises in West Wharf, Karachi.
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