The Sikh Channel

[HSD*^]

Excelleny - - - Cant wait till next week then, wohooooooooooo, thought we would have to wait 1 year, but maharaj did great kirpa. . . .wohooooooooo, cudnt both channels work under one platform?

from the website

The Sikh Channel

UKNational Television Broadcast

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

We are pleased to announce the Sikh Channel will commence national Television broadcast on SKY TV to the United Kingdom on Viasakhi 14/4/2009.

This channel will primarily provide education and religious programming for Sikhs and non Sikhs alike. The channel will be the first National Broadcast TV station to focus upon the essence of Sikhism providing a national television platform free to air for the Sikh Faith. This unique offering will attract huge interest and a large audience.

Our Broadcast will with your assistance provide interesting, diverse and informative television which will be accessible to all members of society dealing in detail with Sikhism.

Offering a wide variety of spiritual programming, including Kirtan , Katha, Religious Discourse, Chat shows and Children's programming the content of our broadcast will feature Sikhism at its core.

This is a unique opportunity for sponsorship and advertisement for Sikh Gurdwaras and Sikhs Businesses. We will require the full support of the Sikh Community to ensure this Broadcast grows and meets its objectives.

The Sikh Channel will always remain a free service with no subscription charges and is intended to educate and inform both Sikhs and Non-Sikhs.

This is the first dedicated Sikh Religious channel in the world and thus will attract attention from all over the globe. There is a undeniable need for a positive representation of Sikhs in the Media and The Sikh Channel will fulfil this objective with your support.

We are committed to unbiased and quality programming without any political or organisational affiliation to represent all sectors of the Sikh Community. As the only broadcast service of its kind in the World the Sikh Channel will adopt an international perspective to represent Sikhs from all over the globe, thus international programming will be a central part of our programming schedule.

Our intention is to have Broad Based Appeal with programming broadcast in both English and Punjabi to appeal to all members of society, irrespective of background.

Sky Television broadcasts to over nine million homes in the United Kingdom. Moreover almost all Sikh homes have access to SKY thus our broadcast will be only TV medium to reach all the Sikh Community.

We would like your support for this project, to advertise, sponsor programmes or take programming airtime please email dsingh@sikhchannel.co.uk

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

is it me or is this getting a bit confusing now? come on guys, two different names arent hard. this will end up in problems as your two channels will conflict and split the sikhs who have sky tv.

[SikhRoots]

VJKK VJKF

Maybe daass can shed some light on this...

Back in 2006 (three years ago), the guys who run BritAsia TV came up on the idea to launch the Sikh Channel (entitled "The Sikh Channel". The guys had experience running a professional tv station on Sky TV before hand which was called Legal TV. The idea was put forward accross a couple of organisations who got on board the idea as well. Everything was in place apart from two important things : sevadars and funding. Because of these two reasons, the idea was scrapped and the focus then shifted to BritAsia TV, with an aim to launch a dedicated Sikh Channel by the end of the decade.

In 2008, the sevadar behind the new Sikh Channel (by KSUK.org above) done a short term placement with BritAsia in charge of "Spiritual Programming" and decided to start the project away from BritAsia to launch a Sikh Channel. BritAsia had already been (very) slowly preparing to launch Sikh Channel at some point but no date or timescales was set.

Now, BritAsia have (finally) got a dedicated team to the Sikh Channel and renewed their regestration with Sky TV to bring about the worlds first dedicated Sikh Channel on channel 840 in a week or two. Everything is set so hopefully, with Guru's kirpa the channel will be launched for UK sangat. These guys know what theyre doing, they are professional having run Legal TV, Red TV, BritAsia and Brit Hits so i wouldnt worry too much about the content being unprofessional. In my opinion, the branding of it needs to be looked at a bit, as i dont like the logo, but thats just me.

In terms of the two channels, yes it would be nice to see a united front but at the moment, i believe this is proving difficult to do as there are a few issues on both sides that remain unresolved.

As someone said above anyway, having two channels would probably be better anyway, but one will definitely need to change its name due to legalities and soforth.

Anyway, this hopefully provides u with some insight into matters.... forgive our mistakes _/\_

VJKK VJKF

[sevaji]

fateh ji

was just wondering if the sangat had information about when this channel was launching is it today the 13th april or tomorrow 14th april?

[Gupt Nihang]

will it be availible on the net as i dont have Sky?

[Tony]

Fateh . . . .

Does anyone know what is the channel number for this on SKY TV?

And will this also be available on FREEVIEW?

Fateh . . .

[Into the Light]

i think its important that during the day the ladies are catered for because alot are watching the backwaas of other channels such as horoscopes etc...an idea might be to have vegetarian cookery show where your taught how to cook english and punjabi vegetarian food.

somemay think, that that is not really Gurmat, but we have to eat :D and its away of engaging aunties

[khalistan_militant]

the website says it started this morning at 6am on 840. But it doesnt seem to have started yet

[SikhRoots]

Channel 840 - 14th April 2009 at 6am... (well, should be!!)

[sevaji]

fateh ji

i don't think the channel is broadcasting? will the channel start later on today?

[sevaji]

just got information from the sikh channel and the channel is up and running on channel 215 and will later today switch to channel 840 throughout the morning.