Ethnic Channels Group

Ethnic Channels Group Limited

Type	Private company
Industry	Broadcasting & Communications
Founded	2004
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Key people	Slava Levin, CEO - Hari Srinivas, President
Products	TV broadcasting & distribution
Owner(s)	Slava Levin and other Investors
Website	www.ethnicchannels.com

Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) is a Canadian television broadcasting, distribution and communications company, specializing in multicultural television channels for the Canadian and United States markets. ECG has been in operation since 2004 and was co-founded by Slava Levin.

Canadian operations

Ethnic Channels Group owns and operates 48 Canadian television channels. In addition, they are the official Canadian distributor for an additional 9 channels. The channels are available through the following Canadian providers: Bell TV, Cogeco, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, Bell Fibe TV, MTS and Telus TV (IPTV & satellite).

Ethnic Channels Group operates/distributes the following channels:

USA Operations

In 2009, Ethnic Channels Group launched a US division – Ethnic Channels Group Inc. (USA), through which it operates and distributes various ethnic channels to the Unet States cable and satellite market. ECG distributes the following channels in the United States, all of which are available via Dish Network:

• Jaya TV (Tamil)
• Jaya Max (Tamil)
• Jaya Movie (Tamil)
• Jaya Plus (Tamil)
• AMedia (Russian)
• CTC International (Russian)
• Detskiy (Russian)
• Russian Illuzion (Russian)

NEXTV

In November 2007, Ethnic Channels Group launched NEXTV, an IPTV service that distributes various packages of international channels to consumers in Canada, United States and Australia, via broadband.

See also

• List of broadcasting licences held by Ethnic Channels Group

External links

• Ethnic Channels Group
• CRTC chart of ECG's assets