The most popular TV channel in Bangladesh. It is Bangladesh national channel.

Bangladesh Television (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ টেলিভিশন), also known by the acronym BTV, is the state-owned Television network in Bangladesh. It started broadcasting as Pakistan Television in what was then East Pakistan on 25 December 1964. It was renamed Bangladesh Television after the independence in 1971. Broadcasts in full colour started in 1980. About 2 million televisions receive transmissions from the network's 17 relay stations. BTV has a national channel which is broadcast from Dhaka. This transmission is relayed to the whole country via local relay stations in major cities of the country. There is also a regional station located in Chittagongwhich broadcasts local programmes in the evening. In the mid-1990s the national TV channel started to broadcast the news programs of BBC and CNN. In 2004, BTV started worldwide broadcasts through its satellite based branch, BTV World. BTV is primarily financed through the television licence fees. Although it has produced many award-winning programmes, it has often been criticised for being the mouth-piece of the ruling government and their lack of quality entertaining programmes. BTV started its black-and-white transmission on 25 December 1964, as a pilot project in the then East Pakistan, airing a song by the singer Ferdausi Rahman. It began from the DIT Bhaban (present Rajuk Bhaban) on a four-hour basis. In 1972, after the independence of Bangladesh, the previously autonomous organisation was made a full-fledged government department. In 1975, the offices and studios were shifted to Rampura, Dhaka. BTV started colour transmission in 1980 through a programme named "Desher Gaan"produced by Selim Ashraf. In 2004, BTV launched its satellite transmission under the name of BTV World. The first drama on BTV, "Ektala Dotala", written by Munier Choudhury, was aired in 1965. In 1979, inspired by the idea of The David Frost Show on BBC, a new magazine programme, "Jodi Kichhu Mone Na Koren", was developed by Fazle Lohani. Children's competition series Notun Kuri started in 1976. The first television commercial was made in 1967 for a detergent soap 707. In 1994, BTV telecast the first private production, a one-hour play Prachir Periye, directed by Atiqul Haque Chowdhury.

Television Museum is open to everyone. It is located in the Bangladesh Television (BTV) building at Rampura in Dhaka. The room in this Television Museum is decorated with pictures. Time seems to have settled here in a combination of black and white and color pictures. Besides, there are many rare collections inside the museum including cameras, broadcasting equipment, screenplays of plays, stills of notable plays. Here you can get a good idea about the evolutionary history of television.

The Early Television Museum is a museum of early television receiver sets. It is located in Hilliard, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, USA.[1] The museum has over 150 TV sets including mechanical TVs from the 1920s and 1930s; pre-World War II British sets from 1936–39; pre-war American sets from 1939–41; post-war American, British, French and German sets from 1945–60; and early color sets from 1953-57 including an RCA Victor CT-100. Many of these sets are working. It is the largest collection in the United States. How many gadgets in your home are nearly a century old? And, if by chance you actually have any nearly century-old gadgets in your home, how many still work? These are obviously rhetorical questions. Like many tech geeks, I live in a Radio Shack with furniture (which doesn’t make my marriage any easier) and am the Historian for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), and I don’t own any nearly century-old gadgets, operational or not. Located in a non-descript warehouse in Hilliard, OH, a mere 20 minutes from downtown Columbus, however, is the Early TV Museum, where you’ll find plenty of nearly century-old gadgets. Arrayed across a dozen carpeted, wood-paneled rooms appropriately reminiscent of your grandfather’s den, are some 200 antique televisions dating from 1928 to 1962, as well as some assorted antique TV cameras. Pre-1960 TVs were solidly built fashionably fine furniture, bulky wooden cabinets enclosing comparatively tiny screens, sometimes with integrated radios and/or record players, with myriad knobs for brightness, contrast, vertical hold and, after 1954, color. Save one, the portable transistorized Philco Safari (1959), all the sets in the museum run on vacuum tubes. What’s startling beyond the mere scope of this collection of ancient TVs are the five black and white pre-war and four color sets that visitors can actually turn on and view by pushing a wall-mounted button. What you’ll see is programming original to when the sets were available, such as clips from Milton Berle on the “Texaco Star Theater”, or early (and still funny) “The Red Skelton Show”. For those of us old enough to remember the tube-based TV past, the nostalgia inside the museum is palpable, the flickering images acting as a time machine transporting us back to our youth. For those too young, there’s the wonder for how we ever survived images so small and fuzzy on such aesthetically obtrusive boxes. But everyone can marvel at the longevity and hardiness of these old sets. Marvel, since most, including the working models, still include their original decades-old picture tubes. Even more startling is the loving attention these sets get from the museum’s membership who continually repair and restore old sets to full operation, which is what differentiates the Early TV Museum from other relic-collecting entities. This is not just a collection of dead devices, but a home where old TVs and old TV repairmen go to live long and meaningful lives. While I was visiting, during the museum’s annual Early TV Convention, several members spent hours tweaking an RCA CT-100, the first mass produced color TV starting in March 1954. Using a DVD of The Wizard of Oz as its source material, the group studied schematics and hooked up modern lab test equipment to determine why the TV wasn’t producing perfect pigments. After several hours of tinkering and analyzing, it was discovered there was a bad tube. Amazingly, one of the technicians simply wandered into the adjacent enormous garage piled high with gear in varying stages of repair and/or restoration and found a replacement tube. Amazingly, someone is still making vacuum tubes for 60-year-old TVs. Museum Origins Opened in 2001, the Early TV Museum and its Early TV Foundation was founded and is run by Steve McVoy, who co-owned cable TV systems in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky for 30 years.

This museum is covering the early hiatory of televion and bamgladesh television and innovation trends on time tried to keep the history.

It's really good museum

When I tried to enter BTV, guard said there is no such museum in BTV. I am surprised!!

bangladesh television rare things of collection that they have used before.

The history of Bangladesh national broadcasts. The first telecast and modernisation episodes are illustrating here. It the government property and next to it the national broadcasting centre. There is a U turn loop just above its boundaries and connected with Hatir Jhil where you can find water boat to travel some places like Ghulshan, FDC, Kawran Bazar. It is really a nice place to visit with family member specially with kids.

There is a TV museum on the first floor where Bangladesh Television BTV is located. It is open on weekdays and is open to the public for viewing. It is in a small house. It is quite good and recommended.

By comparing with other TV channel they need to improve their programme.

Nice place

It's 1st TV Station in Bangladesh. It is public (GOVT.) Television Center. People know this as TV Center. It's just beside of Rampura Bridge. Also beside of Hatirjheel rampura side.

One & only television museum in Bangladesh.

Oldest Govt. TV channel in Bangladesh

In 1964, government-owned BTV started operations. Education and entertainment as well as information flow to the public. BTV is contributing to the socio-economic development of the country through its overall activities. After all, the BTV building has become a television museum.

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