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1964 Bangladesh Television (BTV) started to telecast programmes for the first time as a pilot project in the then East Pakistan under the name Pilot Television Dacca from DIT building at Motijheel.
Google | 1965 After three months on the air as a pilot project, Pilot Television Dacca was officially converted into a service of Pakistan Television on 25 March 1965.
Google | 1971 The Dacca station of Pakistan Television was unofficially renamed Dacca Television.
Google | 1971 Three days before Bangladesh was declared an independent state, Dacca Television began displaying the flag of Bangladesh and playing the Bangladeshi national anthem, Amar Sonar Bangla, rather than the Pakistani flag and national anthem.
Google | 1971 Bangladesh Television's iconic logo appeared on the television screen for the first time.
Google | 1975 Ten years after starting the Bangladesh Television (BTV) station was finally shifted from DIT building at Motijheel to Rampura to modernise the facilities and broadcast technically developed programmes.
Google | 1975 The offices and studios of Bangladesh Television were shifted to the newly built headquarters located at Rampura in Dhaka with newer technology.
Google | 1975 Operations of Bangladesh Television from the Rampura headquarters building commenced.
Google | 1980 Bangladesh Television commenced color transmissions, being inaugurated by President Ziaur Rahman, marking the first official full-time color broadcasts in South Asia.
Google | 1992 CNN, the US news network, started relaying its transmission in Bangladesh for a few hours everyday using the BTV channel.
Google | 2012 To compete with privately owned local television channels, Bangladesh Television began broadcasting for 24 hours via satellite television, while still retaining the 18-hour broadcast on terrestrial.
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