The Blackburn-based Ummah Channel is to close at the end of the month.
The channel, which broadcasts on Sky 828 in English and Urdu, airs a mixture of religious, lifestyle and debate shows. It is particularly targeted at Barelvi Sufi Muslims living in the north.
Ummah Channel was established nine years ago and was one of the first Muslim channels to broadcast on the Sky platform. On its website it says that its mission is to provide “spirituality, humanity and morality and to teach and educate all viewers … in the true way of Islam.”
However, it’s thought that Ummah Channel has been struggling financially and has failed to reach a wide audience outside of its core Barelvi constituency.
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