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Samaa TV to return on Sky “within 48 hours”

Samaa TV
Samaa TV

Popular Pakistani news channel, Samaa TV has vowed to return within 48 hours after it was abruptly taken off the Sky Digital EPG.

Samaa TV, which was available on Sky channel 832 was earlier showing a static screen for a number of hours. It was subsequently removed from the Sky EPG later in the evening leading to rumours from rivals.

A spokesperson for Samaa TV told BizAsia that the outage was due to a technical glitch and a misunderstanding. However, the fault has been rectified and it will take Sky up to 48 hours for the channel to be reinstated on its EPG 832.

Samaa TV is one of the UK’s most watched news channels regularly attracting a weekly reach of around 300,000 viewers.

UPDATE: Samaa TV returns on Sky Digital channel 832 on Monday 2nd March.