Iran has opened “Sahar-2″ international television channel broadcasting programmes in three languages, English, Kurdish, and Urdu, Fars news agency reported on 31 December.
Fars said Ezzatollah Zarghami, the head of the radio and TV organization, inaugurated Sahar-2 TV channel.
It quoted Zarghami as saying: “The reason for the soaring increase in the number of audiences of the foreign services of the Iranian radio and TV networks was because people of the world increasingly do not trust the biased and one-sided news and reports disseminated by Western media and the regional channels that toe their lines.”
“Sahar-2 TV network will broadcast 19 hours of programmes in three languages, English, Kurdish and Urdu, and Sahar-1 airs programmes in French, Azari, and Bosnian,” Fars news agency added.
(Source: Fars News Agency website, Tehran, in Persian 1400 gmt 31 Dec 09 via BBC Monitoring)
Andy Sennitt adds: Press TV reports that Sahar-2 broadcasts on Hot bird 8 at 13 degrees east, frequency 12437 MHz, horizontal polarization.
on Sep 10th, 2011 at 15:41
AOA,
I is great. I love it. when I was living in Germany about six years ago, I used to wath but I do not have the access in Sout Africa. Pls could you let me know that how can I watch Urdu or English Sahar 2 program on internet.
Thank you & Khuda Hafiz
Zafar