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This is an archive of news about Geo TV. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

Geo TV falls foul of UK advertising law
From Digital Spy. Posted July 23 2008, 12.08pm
The British advertising regulator bans a series of commercials on Geo TV UK for medical services in the US. (more)

Geo TV channels to encrypt
From Digital Spy. Posted June 16 2008, 3.33pm
Digital satellite channels Geo Entertainment, Geo News and AAG will all be encrypted from Monday. (more)

Geo channels set to encrypt on Sky Digital
From Biz Asia. Posted June 12 2008, 8.46pm
Pakistani broadcaster Geo TV has confirmed it will be encrypting all three of its channels later this month. (more)

Pakistan regulator clarifies status of Indian Peace TV
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 27 2008, 2.54pm
Text of report by website of Pakistani daily The News, part of the Jang group which owns Geo TV, on 23 May Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Thursday [22 May] clarified a story published in ‘The News’ on 22 May regarding banning of ‘Peace TV’ in Pakistan, says a press release. PEMRA has already clarified [...] (more)

Pakistan?s private Geo TV back on the air
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 21 2008, 1.58pm
Broadcasts of Pakistan’s private Geo television network resumed in Pakistan today more than two-and-half months after its transmission was blocked following the imposition of a state of emergency. Geo News and its sister sports channel came back on the air at 1300 UTC. Geo was the last channel to come back on the air of several that [...] (more)

Pakistan lets Geo TV back on air
From Rapid TV News. Posted January 20 2008, 3.24am
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has permitted banned Geo TV to resume broadcasting. (more)

Pakistan: Geo TV plans to move out of Dubai
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 25 2007, 3.30pm
Text of report in English by Dubai newspaper Gulf News website on 25 November Pakistan’s most popular private satellite channel Geo Television Network is to move its base from Dubai to Hong Kong, Gulf News has learnt. “We are making arrangements to air the transmission from Hong Kong because we are losing around half a million dollars [...] (more)

Pakistan: Geo now only private TV whose transmissions are blocked
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 23 2007, 11.43am
Three weeks after the declaration of a state of emergency, all but one of Pakistan’s private TV networks have been permitted to resume transmissions, albeit with some restrictions. The one exception is Geo TV, based in Dubai. All four of its channels - Geo TV, Geo News, Geo Super (sport) and Aag TV (music) - remain [...] (more)

Pakistan?s Geo TV allowed to resume limited news bulletins
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 19 2007, 2.25pm
Text of report in English by Dubai newspaper Gulf News website on 18 November Dubai: Pakistani news channel ARY One World is expected to be back on air soon as it has “convinced” the Pakistani government to let it operate again after its transmission was blocked by Dubai Media City on Saturday. “We have negotiated with the [...] (more)

Pakistan bans Geo TV
From Rapid TV News. Posted November 18 2007, 9.18pm
Pakistan’s state of emergency has seen another popular local channel taken off air. (more)

Geo UK on cloud nine over Twenty20 cricket
From Biz Asia. Posted September 25 2007, 9.47pm
Pakistani broadcaster Geo UK has told BizAsia.co.uk that its recent ICC Twenty20 cricket coverage has proven to be a "brilliant success story for the channel". As reported earlier this week, entertainment TV channels in India have suffered a blow after viewers opted to watch India and Pakistan's triumph performance in the Twenty20 series on sport channels like ESPN and STAR Cricket. In the UK, the series was shared between main broadcaster Sky Sports (English) and Geo UK (Urdu). Sky Sports remained neutral on the outcome of the tournament. When BizAsia.co.uk asked Sky Sports about the response it gained from the first ever World Twenty20, it refused to comment on what they called "fairly commercially sensitive information." Meanwhile, Geo UK, which has witnessed a huge response from advertisers and viewers during the series was quick to comment, "All I can say Twenty20 turned out to be brilliant success story for the channel. We had such a superb response from our valued advertisers and esteem viewers that its hard to express in words. Future acquisitions can't comment at this stage! But of course Geo TV thrives to provide its viewers with only premium content and nothing below." Geo UK is also gearing to launch its news channel in the coming months. As well as that, the broadcaster also plans to encrypt its main service, along with its youth channel Aag. Related links: India cricket scores over entertainment channels Geo UK denies encryption rumours (more)

Aaj TV in Pakistan faces closure?
From Biz Asia. Posted April 24 2007, 12.52pm
A month after the offices of Pakistan’s leading private television channel Geo were ransacked by the law enforcement agencies, the second largest television channel, Aaj, faces suspension of its transmissions for its 'irresponsible coverage' of the proceedings of the presidential reference against the suspended chief justice of the Supreme Court. However, the management of the Aaj television says that the channel was being targeted by the information ministry for defying the government attempts to influence its reporting of the ongoing judicial crisis, which has created a plethora of troubles for General Musharraf. According to Arshad Zuberi, the managing director of Aaj Television, the management has been served with a legal notice asking it to explain why it had not sought government permission to uplink its signals from the country. The notice accuses the channel of inciting violence by casting the armed forces in an unfavourable light. The channel has been given three days to reply or face the consequences. He made it clear that Aaj won’t take the chief justice case off air, as desired by the government. "The judicial crisis was not created by television channels but by the government and it will have to tackle it now", Zuberi said. The channel is owned by the Zuberi family, which also operate the Business Recorder, Pakistan’s oldest and most respected financial newspaper. According to Zuberi, the suspension of the chief justice and the subsequent crisis has literally paralysed the government which has resorted to underhand tactics to silence the fourth pillar of the state. Related link: Geo TV's Pakistan offices raided by police (more)

Geo TV's Pakistan offices raided by police
From Biz Asia. Posted March 17 2007, 11.39am
Police stormed Geo TV’s offices and tear-gassed employees on Friday after its editors refused to stop broadcasting pictures of protests against the chief justice’s suspension, as Aaj TV’s transmission was reportedly "disrupted" and as its head of the news section said the channel was working under great pressure over the chief justice trial. According to Reuters, Geo’s Islamabad News Bureau Chief Hamid Mir said that police broke windows and released teargas in the office. "They’re demanding a camera installed on the roof be removed," said Mir. Geo was able to broadcast live pictures of the police bursting into the office. Transmissions from the rooftop ended a short time later. Geo’s rooftop camera had a panoramic view of the anti-government demonstrations. Police also damaged the neighbouring office of The News daily. "We hold the president and the prime minister directly responsible for this," said The News bureau chief. Meanwhile, AFP quoted Talat Hussain, the Aaj TV head of news section, as saying, "We have been told not to make Chaudhry a hero. We are even being threatened with the cancellation of our licence if we give undue coverage to his trial." Daily Times Monitor adds: Geo TV reported that its office in Karachi was evacuated after an unknown caller raised a false alarm that bombs had been planted in the building. Article from Daily Times, Pakistan (more)