ATN Cricket Plus is a

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owned by

Asian Television Network Asian Television Network (ATN) is a publicly traded Canadian broadcasting company, with 54 television channels in 9 languages, serving the South Asian cultural communities in Canada. ATN operates a South Asian Radio service on XM, available in ...

(ATN). ATN Cricket Plus broadcasts programming related to the sport of

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

including live and tape-delayed matches and news and highlight series.

History

In April 2006, ATN was granted approval from the

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(CRTC) to launch a television channel called ''ATN - Asian Sports Network (ASN)'', described as ''"a national, English-language Category 2 pay television programming service devoted to the game of cricket. The service shall broadcast live cricket games from various venues around the world and shall showcase local cricket games. The service shall also broadcast discussions about the game of cricket."'' ATN announced on January 31, 2007 plans to launch the channel as ATN Cricket Plus, in a licensing partnership with

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, who launched their own Cricket Plus channel in the United States in 2006 with Taj TV. The channel launched in February 2007 on

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. On September 25, 2012, ATN Cricket Plus' broadcasting license to operate as a pay service was revoked at ATN's request. The channel subsequently re-launched as a regular specialty service on June 17, 2012, under the following license
ATN - Asian Sports Network

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