NEW YORK, NY, April 30, 2003-New York-based Bridges Network, Inc., declared today that it will dispatch Bridges TV, the primary ever across the country English-dialect Muslim TV station in North America. The normal dispatch date is summer 2004, pending how rapidly the system can assemble the 10,000 paying individuals important to show open help. 

 

Islam TV, which will be communicated from Manhattan, will underline news stories, and television shows, healthy sitcoms, counsel appears, youngsters' customizing and motion pictures about Muslim life in America. Programming will for the most part be made, since an English-dialect classification focusing on American Muslims does not exist. 

 

The wander is initiated by Muzzammil S. Hassan, MBA, a bank VP in New York and Omar S. Amanat, organizer of Tradescape, an Internet business firm. Mr. Amanat sold Tradescape a year ago to E*Trade (NYSE: ET) for $280,000,000 (million). 

 

Amanat adapted at an early stage that even at the tallness of his monetary accomplishment on Wall Street, open view of Muslims kept him from being completely acknowledged. 

 

"I understood that the best way to fix misinterpretations was to make our own particular media discussion from which our stories and culture would be imparted to the world. Other social gatherings have picked up acknowledgment and expanded comprehension through the discussion of media. Why can't Muslims do likewise?" 

 

Stations, for example, Telemundo and the Black Entertainment Television arrange have engaged social specialty markets. Scaffolds TV would like to take after a comparative model and make a differing sort of programming that individuals from the American Muslim people group can relate to. That gathering is created roughly one-quarter each of South Asian, African-American, Arab and Others. 

 

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Hassan noticed that most individuals from these gatherings are direct Muslims who can't relate to the outrageous generalizations regularly delineated in Hollywood creations. 

 

"They think they are not precisely depicted," he said. "Extensions TV gives American Muslims a voice and will delineate them in ordinary, genuine circumstances." 

 

huda TV live separates itself from such remote dialect programming as Zee TV (Hindi), Prime TV (Urdu) and ART TV (Arabic), which are communicated in outside dialects and concentrate on life encounters in remote nations. These channels are well known among outsider guardians, yet not with their U.S. conceived kids. "Our divert is in English and about existence in America. We need a Muslim tyke who experiences childhood in America to have the capacity to watch our channel and relate to the characters, or to be locked in by the exchange of issues correlated to him or her," said Amanat. 

 

Amanat included that stories that shed light on the huge commitments of American Muslims to present day science, craftsmanship and diversion stay untold and will be a concentration of Bridges TV programming. The system tries to include sitcoms that speak to American Muslim family life. The Cosby Show, which depicted a positive portrayal of African-American family life, is a model for such sitcom programming. 

 

Formation of a channel that components American Muslims comes when the media spotlight is progressively centered around this populace. The channel plans to "assemble spans" of comprehension by giving Muslims a chance to express their perspectives and sentiments about their confidence and way of life. 

 

Given the evaluated eight million Muslims living in North America, the channel is long past due, as indicated by arrange authorities. What's more, thinks about supported by Bridges TV have discovered that American Muslims will pay as much as $10 every month well beyond their present link or satellite expense for the station. 

 

As indicated by a Zogby 2000 review, at a yearly development of 6%, the American Muslim populace, which at exhibit makes a sizable market, is relied upon to twofold to 15 million in the following ten years.