Asian Television Network
Public (TSX-V: SAT) | |
Industry | Media |
Founded | 1971 |
Headquarters | Markham, Ontario |
Key people | Shan Chandrasekar, Chairman & CEO |
Products | Broadcasting |
Website |
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Asian Television Network International Limited (often just referred to as Asian Television Network or ATN) is a publicly traded Canadian broadcasting company, with 54 television channels in 9 languages, serving South Asian cultural communities in Canada. ATN operates a South Asian Radio service on XM, available in Canada and the United States. Headquartered in Markham, Ontario, the company has been in operation since 1997, and is headed by Indo-Canadian broadcaster Shan Chandrasekar.
Awards and recognition
- 2011 TSX Venture 50 [1]
- 2009 Newmarket Chamber of Commerce Large Business of the Year [2]
- 2008 Jaya Chandrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame [3]
- 2004 Shan Chandrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame [4]
Assets
Television
ATN currently owns and operates 40 Canadian television channels and has licences for several others. In addition, ATN is a major distributor of cricket programming in Canada, as it possesses the Canadian broadcasting rights for many of the top cricket events in the world.
- ATN Aastha TV (Hindi/Gujarati)
- ATN Alpha ETC Punjabi (Punjabi)
- ATN ARY Digital (Urdu)
- ATN Asianet (Malayalam)
- ATN B4U Movies (Hindi)
- ATN B4U Music (Hindi)
- ATN Bangla (Bengali)
- ATN Brit Asia TV (Hindi/Punjabi)
- ATN Colors Bangla (Bengali)
- ATN Colors Marathi (Marathi)
- ATN Cricket Plus (Sports channel- English)
- ATN DD Bharati (Culture- Hindi)
- ATN DD India (Hindi)
- ATN DD News (Hindi)
- ATN DD Sports (English)
- ATN DD Urdu (Urdu)
- ATN Food Food (Lifestyle channel- Hindi)
- ATN Gujarati (Gujarati)
- ATN IBC Tamil
- ATN Jaya TV (Tamil)
- ATN MH 1 (Punjabi)
- ATN Movies OK (Hindi)
- ATN MTV India (Hindi)
- ATN NDTV 24x7 (English)
- ATN News18 India (English)
- ATN Punjabi 5 (Punjabi)
- ATN Punjabi News (Punjabi)
- ATN Punjabi Plus (Punjabi)
- ATN Rishtey (Hindi)
- ATN SAB TV (Hindi)
- ATN Sikh Channel (Punjabi)
- ATN Sony Aath (Bengali)
- ATN Sony Max (Hindi)
- ATN Sony Mix (Hindi)
- ATN Sony TV (Hindi)
- ATN Star Plus (Hindi, other South Asian languages)
- ATN Star Vijay (Tamil)
- ATN Times Now (English)
- ATN Urdu (Urdu)
- ATN Zoom (Hindi)
- Commonwealth Broadcasting Network (English)
Foreign Services
In addition to the 41 O&O channels that it has launched itself, Asian Television Network also distributes a number of foreign services in Canada. ATN is the official Canadian distributor for the following channels:
- ABP News (India)
- ARY Musik (Pakistan)
- ARY News (Pakistan)
- ARY Qtv (Pakistan)
- ARY Zauq (Pakistan)
- Aapka Colors (India) [5]
- Channel i (Bangladesh)
- Channel [V] Taiwan (Taiwan)
- Life OK (India)
- NDTV Good Times (India)
- STAR Chinese Channel (Taiwan)
- STAR Chinese Movies 2 (Hong Kong)
- STAR Gold (India)
- UTV Movies International (India)
Radio
On October 27, 2007, ATN launched a 24hr South Asian satellite radio station on the XM Satellite Radio platform. It features news, sports & entertainment programming broadcast primarily in Hindi & Punjabi, among other regional languages.
See also
References
- ↑ TMX Group, 2011; source data from Capital IQ Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Newmarket Chamber of Commerce, 2009
- ↑ Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2008;
- ↑ Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2004; Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-04-13.