About Us

Bangladesh, a country of over 170 million people, has been recognized as the next eleven emerging countries of the world. The stable economic & political situation & most importantly the people’s attitude to change the country driven by vibrant mass media are some of the main reasons behind the immense possibilities of this country.

Ekattor, a licensed private satellite channel of Ekattor Media Limited, and the first & still the only proper full HD channel of Bangladesh, has come with a promise to change the way television channels have been presented to millions of viewers of Bangladesh. Very logically, Ekattor television has rewritten the history of broadcast media of Bangladesh. ekattor.tv is the 24x7 news portal owned and operated by Ekattor media limited also the owning company of Ekattor television.

The vision of Ekattor television and ekattor.tv is to ensure the people’s right to access to information. Ekattor believes in empowering every person to promote the secular and democratic political practices that will be resulted in becoming a stable & truly developed & culturally rich nation.

June 21, 2012- the day people of Bangladesh & rest of the world celebrated the landmark beginning of Ekattor, a new generation television channel packed with 24 x 7 live news coverage as real time basis and diverse infotainment programs.

For the first time in Bangladesh, Ekattor has been covering multiple happenings live from anywhere & at any time.

Additionally, our technology allows us to bring live coverage even on the move from the ground & air. The television viewers have been experiencing this unique feature for the first time in Bangladesh.

The optical fiber based connectivity across the country & the wireless device based connectivity has given the ultimate edge to keep the television viewers updated of all the happenings as it happens, which also has created sensation in the broadcast industry of Bangladesh.

Interactivity is another main feature of Ekattor that has opened up an avenue of much awaited demand of viewers' participation. Ekattor is the platform of the millions of viewers to raise their voice & express their hopes & aspirations.

As a socially responsible channel and news portal, Ekattor has touched all the human issues to bring a greater positive impact on everyone's life. Ekattor is committed to put all of its efforts for keeping people’s interest in the centre of everything it does.

The infotainment programs have been tastefully designed considering our glorious past, rich culture & traditions of Bangladesh. These unique features have certainly optimized the satisfaction of television viewers and the news portal users.

Ekattor has invested heavily on technology & human resources and these have created a distinguishing character of Ekattor from rest of the channels.

From the very first day at Ekattor, we have been practicing the exact definition of journalism maintained by our extremely professional team members. Our country wide bureau offices & news centers enables us to ensure the people’s right access to information that we will definitely continue. For this reason, Ekattor has become the leading & most influential news & current affairs channel and news portal of Bangladesh.

In just two weeks from the inception, Ekattor has been ranked as the number 1 channel among 27 channels of Bangladesh at that time. Ekattor is the channel that has earned the record breaking TRP of 30 years in just 3 weeks from its inception on June 21, 2012.

All of our trend setting features have already created Ekattor’s own signature style of presentation, news & programs. Ekattor will continue the research for more innovations for retaining the leadership of broadcast media of Bangladesh. Over the years, Ekattor television has won many national and international awards for the outstanding quality of content. Among many our short film titled Jonmo Shathi (জন্মসাথী) has own a prestigious award of India.

Understanding the ever growing usage of internet and popularity of social media, Ekattor television had launched its full-fledged online operation back in 2014. Since then, we have been using all the major social media brands including facebook, youtube and instragram. Realizing the changing habit of viewing of television, we have taken the digital first approach in our content creation and distribution. As a logical consequence, we have gained a tremendous popularity on social media platforms. In a very short time, facebook takes the top of the list. Currently, our facebook page is followed by 6.4 million fans. Understanding the great potential, we have been scaling up our effort on facebook. Also we have a strong position on youtube. At present, we have over 2.47 million subscribers of our youtube channel. It is also growing exponentially. Our instragram account has been showing good results. So, we are equally serious to use this platform. These are all run by a very committed and professional team. Our 24x7 news portal ekattor.tv has gained a momentum to attract more users for its high standard of journalism.