Sangat Tv

When riots broke out in Birmingham in 2011, no other station was on the ground covering the story like Sangat TV. It was hailed as an amateur yet great community effort at making television in the UK speak the language of the community. And it did - many programmes on the network are in Punjabi.

A Sikh TV channel in the UK has been penalised for allegedly inciting an attack in September on Lieutenant General (retd) KS Brar, who oversaw the controversial Operation Bluestar against Sikh militants holed up inside the Golden Temple in 1984.

When riots broke out in Birmingham in 2011, no other station was on the ground covering the story like Sangat TV. It was hailed as an amateur yet great community effort at making television in the UK speak the language of the community. And it did - many programmes on the network are in Punjabi.

A Sikh TV channel in the UK has been penalised for allegedly inciting an attack in September on Lieutenant General (retd) KS Brar, who oversaw the controversial Operation Bluestar against Sikh militants holed up inside the Golden Temple in 1984.