Iranican
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| Iranican | |
|---|---|
| Format | Talk show |
| Starring | Behnoush Babzani, Mahvash Jafarinejad, Iman Oskoorouchi, Arash Shokuh |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Persian News Network Pnn |
| Original run | October 8, 2005 – Present |
Iranican is an Iranian American Organization which is best known for its video programming. Iranican was pioneered as a talk show by 8 Iranians in the California Bay Area in their early 20's on Saturday October 8, 2005. Later on, the TV show was polished and developed and officially launched as Iranican on February 11, 2006. Currently the co-hosts of the program are Behnoush Babzani, Mahvash Jafarinejad, Iman Oskoorouchi, and Arash Shokuh.
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[edit] The Name
The term Iranican was first introduced by one of the hosts. Later the team realized this term was widely coined by Siamack Baniameri's book The Iranican Dream published in 2005. Iranican is a derivative of the two words "Iranian" and "American", however since in Persian, "Irani" means Iranian, it also carries the meaning of Irani[an] can.
[edit] History
From October 8th, 2005 with original co-hosts were Ali Ebrahimi, Samira Kashani, Iman Oskoorouchi, Shobeir Shobeiri, Shadi Sharif, Salman Roknizadeh, and Shadi Vaezzadeh till December 23rd, 2006; Iranican aired on Saturdays from 11AM-Noon PST on Persian News Network Pnn (See a List of Persian language television channels). A day or two later, Pnn was cut off Telestar5 satellite, however Iranican continued airing its shows live online directly from its website for a few weeks. Pnn has not come back since, but Iranican was picked up by another Satellite Channel, Markazi TV. The first Iranican show on Markazi aired live on July 29th 2007. A few months later Markazi went off Satellite for 2 months to switch frequency while Iranican started to make short online reports and has continued to do so since.
[edit] Launch
The official launch on February 11, 2006 featured Maz Jobrani, an Iranian American Comedian 1 and Ahmad Ahmad, an Egyptian American Comedian 2. This launch was the first Iranican show to feature a live audience in the studio and since then, Iranican has not had another show with a live audience.
