[4] In July 2011, Bridges TV moved to New York City in hopes of broadening its influence across America with help from Soundview Broadcasting.
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.
Around the time of its inception, the network announced that it would seek to feature sitcoms that represent American Muslim family life in a positive way and identified The Cosby Show as a model for such programming.
[1] In late 2005, Bridges TV started airing "Current Issues", a show produced in Lafayette, Louisiana about Palestinian and other Middle Eastern concerns.
[4][10][11] Dr. Khalid Qazi, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Western New York and a friend of the couple, said that Hassan "was worried about the station's future...He was stressed" and added "Domestic violence is despicable, and Islam condones it in no way whatever.
[12] In the aftermath of Aasiya Zubair Hassan's death, Bridges TV shut down its news operations for three months, although it continued to present other programming.