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1936 The Azad, daily newspaper in Bangla ad Assam, was founded in Kolkata with first editor Maulana Mohammad Akram Khan.
Google | 1947 After the creation of Pakistan, Pakistan Broadcasting Service, later renamed Radio Pakistan, was created with three former stations of All India Radio located at Dhaka, Lahore and Peshawar.
Google | 1948 The Azad, daily Bangla newspaper, was transferred from Kolkata to Dhaka after the partition of India.
Google | 1953 The Daily Ittefaq, a daily Bangla newspaper was first published from Dhaka on this day. It was initially published as a weekly.
Google | 1966 The Daily Ittefaq, Bangla daily was banned by West Pakistan government.
Google | 1975 The government banned the publication of all newspapers except four: Dainik Ittefaq, Dainik Bangla, Bangladesh Observer and Bangladesh Times.
Google | 1991 The Daily Star, popular English language daily, began its journey with Mahfuz Anam as its editor and publisher.
Google | 1997 Last edition of now defunct Weekly Bichitra was published. Weekly Bichitra, considered to be a historic milestone and a pioneering magazine, was owned by the Government of Bangladesh and edited by Shahadat Chowdhury.
Google | 1998 The Prothom Alo, Bangla daily, starts its journey.
Google | 2001 ATN Bangla, private satellite channel, started broadcasting its own news bulletins.
Google | 2002 The first private terrestrial TV channel, Ekushey Television (ETV) went off the air after losing a legal battle over its broadcasting rights.
Google | 2004 The Daily Naya Diganta, a Bengali daily newspaper, was inaugurated.
Google | 2005 The Daily Samakal, Bangla daily newspaper was launched.
Google | 2006 Radio Foorti, a Bangladeshi FM radio station, went live.
Google | 2006 Desh TV started officially broadcasting in Bangladesh from the Telstar 10 satellite.
Google | 2006 bdnews24.com, the first-ever online newspaper of the country, was launched.
Google | 2006 Transmission of Ekushey Television (ETV) resumed after its broadcasting was stopped four years and three months ago.
Google | 2011 Somoy Television (Somoy Media Limited), a 24-hour Bengali news based private satellite television channel in Bangladesh, officially went on-air.
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