Bridges TV is a Muslim television network headquartered in Buffalo, New York. Premiering nationally in November 2004, it was the first American Muslim television network to broadcast in the English language. However, this channel was removed on Verizon FiOS on March 15, 2012 due to dispute. It closed shortly thereafter since Verizon carried the channel in more markets than all the other providers combined. While Verizon carried Bridges TV system-wide, the network was only available on a very small number of Comcast, Cox, and Time Warner Cable systems.
Designed to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims, the network has received attention from publications and media venues such as Variety, NBC News, the Voice of America, Columbus Dispatch, Detroit Free Press, San Jose Mercury News, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle The Buffalo News and Canadian Press.
In July 2011 BridgesTV moved to New York City in hopes of broadening its influence across America with help from Soundview Broadcasting. Unfortunately the move crippled the company and was only meant for Soundview to absorb Bridges TV's customers and its small influence in the Muslim American Market.
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