If you look at the demographic data collected by many survey mongers, you would surprised at the volume of people searching just for the news. That has got one more implication. When the pristine and big shot newspapers like New York Times, Time Magazine, Reader Digest are facing bankruptcy due to the electronic versions, how [...]
Since the last few months there have been intense debates on whether the electronic media is becoming a monster or not. Certain people are propogating the opinion that the media is playing a destructive role for the society. They claim that in the days of dictatorship it calls for democracy and later tries to [...]
All hell broke loose on media yesterday, when the MQM pressurized the cable operators to suspend the distribution of licensed channels “Geo News” and “ARY One World” on November 17, on cable TV networks in Karachi and some areas of the interior Sindh. Pakistan People’s Party has warned its difficult and tough ally in Sindh [...]
As I sit writing these lines in New York, on this October day, fall weather is upon us. The view outside my window is a curious mixture of an early (native) “Indian Summer”, as well as autumn. Much of the shrubbery in my backyard nature preserve has already turned red, with some shades of green [...]
Due to the baseless rumors that the banks are going bankrupt and they are about to clamp down on the lockers of the people and will freeze the accounts for an unspecific period of time has created a panic and many a people have withdrawn their money and valuables from the banks and have put [...]
Uninhabited deserts, barren land and an under-developed region going through insurgency for long – this is what I knew about Baluchistan before setting my foot there. There has been a curiosity somewhere inside me to know the details but it never grew strong enough to make a trip to the province. A few of us [...]
Importance of free media cannot be denied and it cannot be questioned in raising awareness among the masses. Pakistan has seen, in recent years, an explosion in the private media channels and the way they have break the shackles of state-owned PTV is marvelous and commendable.
Where these channels have succeeded in enkindling cognizance in the [...]
Introducing private media channels like GEO, ARYONEWORLD, AAJ, and host others was a commendable step from the government. In rural Punjab, there is cliche which if translated into English, goes like this, “If your mother has married second time, its bad, if she has left the second husband, its too bad.”
Government first liberated the media, [...]
After emergency, one of the many draconian measures taken by the government, private cable channels like GEO, ARYONEWORLD, and AAJ tv were also taken off air for the cable viewers in Pakistan. If you want to view GEO through web, you can have it here
Watch GEO TV LIVE:
http://watchgeotv.info/
Watch Geo TV here
In past few years, we have witnessed many good programs apart of fresh news on Jang Group’s satellite channel named as GEO. Till now it had progressed from one to many other sub-channels.
I became much fond of GEO TV when it was the era of Iraq War, in-fact, I have rented cable [...]
