ImaginAsian
ImaginAsian Entertainment is a multi-media company based in New York City. Its main feature is a television network, iaTV, which premiered in 2004 and which focuses on entertainment featuring people of East Asian and South East Asian descent. There is also some South Asian content. The channel competed in certain markets with AZN Television until April 2008, when the competing network ceased broadcasting. It is not yet available in many American television markets.
They also operated The ImaginAsian, a renovated movie theater located in Midtown Manhattan that shows only first-run and classic Asian films, as well as several film festivals per year. The company renovated a second former movie theater in Los Angeles that opened in December 2007, the former Linda Lea Theater, which originally showed Japanese films and served the Little Tokyo area before shuttering in the 1980s.
In addition, past divisions of the company consisted of iaLink, ImaginAsian Entertainment's monthly e-zine, which at one point had over 10 million subscribers, ImaginAsian Pictures and Home Entertainment, a film and DVD distribution division that released several DVDs of Asian films and iaTV original shows, and the successful theatrical and DVD release of the Vietnamese American film Journey From The Fall, and iaRadio, a block of radio programming both streamed online as well as made available on certain terrestrial stations.
Current status
As of late 2009, the company has undergone internal changes. Offices in New York were closed and operations were transitioned to Los Angeles under a new team. The television network currently airs its library content while programming, website, and relaunch preparations continue. Both theaters have closed, with the New York City location being operated by Phoenix Theatres, and the LA location being operated by the property owners as the Downtown Independent.
List of corporate affiliates
- ImaginAsian Entertainment (IAEI) is the corporate parent
- ImaginAsianTV (iaTV) is the television network
- ImaginAsian Radio (iaRadio) is a streaming online radio
- iaLink is an online e-zine
- The ImaginAsian Theater, a movie theater in New York City which is now owned by Phoenix Theatres
- ImaginAsian Pictures is for the creation, distribution, and promotion of films
- ImaginAsian Home Entertainment is the DVD and home video division
- The ImaginAsian Center is the film/event theatre in the Gallery Row area of Los Angeles, California, which opened on December 1, 2007. The Los Angeles center seems to have stopped operations in October 2008, though its web site (http://www.theimaginasian.com/la/) is still up.
Shows aired on ImaginAsian
Television programs
Eastern Animation
Japanese (Anime)
Korean
- Guardian Fairy Michel
- Hermos: The Green Chariot
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List of over-the-air TV channels and cable providers
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