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

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and the

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. Headquartered in

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, the company has been in operation since 1997, and is headed by

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broadcaster Shan Chandrasekar.

Awards and recognition

* 2011 TSX Venture 50 * 2009 Newmarket Chamber of Commerce Large Business of the Year * 2008 Jaya Chandrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame * 2004 Shan Chandrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2004

Television

ATN currently owns and operates 46 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 ABP Sanjha (Punjabi) * ATN Aapka Colors (Hindi) * ATN ARY Digital (Urdu) * ATN B4U Movies (Hindi) * ATN B4U Music (Hindi) * ATN B4U Plus (Hindi) *

ATN Bangla ATN Bangla ( bn, এটিএন বাংলা), 'ATN' being the acronym of the unused Asian Television Network, is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel owned by Multimedia Production Company. It is based in th ...

(Bengali) * ATN Brit Asia TV (Hindi/Punjabi) * ATN Channel (Hindi, other South Asian languages) * ATN Colors Bangla (Bengali) * ATN Colors Marathi (Marathi) * ATN Colors Rishtey (Hindi) * ATN Cricket Plus (Sports channel- English) * ATN DD Bharati (Culture- Hindi) * ATN DD India (Hindi) * ATN DD News (Hindi) *

ATN DD Sports ATN DD Sports is a Canadian Category B English language digital cable specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). It airs live and tape-delayed Cricket matches as well as other Asian sports such as Kabaddi, Kho-kho, Field hockey, Ar ...

(English) * ATN DD Urdu (Urdu) * ATN Food Food (Lifestyle channel- Hindi) * ATN Gujarati (Gujarati) * ATN IBC Tamil *

ATN Jaya TV ATN Jaya TV (still unofficially known as ATN Tamil) is a Canadian exempt Category B Tamil language specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). It broadcasts programming from Jaya TV, a popular television channel from India, and Can ...

(Tamil) * ATN Life (Hindi) * ATN Max 2 (Hindi) * ATN Movies (Hindi) * ATN MTV India (Hindi) * ATN News (English) * ATN News18 India (English) * ATN PM One (Punjabi) *

ATN Punjabi ATN Alpha ETC Punjabi (or simply ATN Punjabi) is a Television in Canada, Canadian Punjabi language, Punjabi-language specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network. It broadcasts programming from India and Canadian content in the form of movi ...

(Punjabi) * ATN Punjabi 5 (Punjabi) * ATN Punjabi News (Punjabi) *

ATN Punjabi Plus ATN Punjabi Plus is a Canadian pay television Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually pr ...

(Punjabi) * 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 SVBC (Telugu) * ATN Tamil Plus (Tamil) * ATN Times Now (English) *

ATN Urdu ATN Urdu is a Canadian pay television channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). It is a Urdu-language general entertainment network, airing programming that appeals to the entire family including comedies, serials, talk shows, music, relig ...

(Urdu) * ATN Zoom (Hindi) *

Commonwealth Broadcasting Network Commonwealth Broadcasting Network (CBN) is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). CBN primarily focuses on cricket programming such as live and tape-delayed matches featuring Commonwealt ...

(English)

Foreign Services

In addition to the 46 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 ARY Musik (, formerly The Musik) is a Pakistani pay television music channel, first launched in 2003 as "The Musik" in Dubai by Salman Iqbal. It is part of the ARY Digital Network. In 2009 its name was changed to "ARY Musik". It features mus ...

(Pakistan) * ARY News (Pakistan) * ARY Qtv (Pakistan) * ARY Zauq (Pakistan) *

Channel i Channel i ( bn, চ্যানেল আই) is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel owned by Impress Group. It was launched on 1 October 1999, as Bangladesh's first digital television channel. It is one of the ...

(Bangladesh) *

NDTV Good Times ''Goodtimes'' is the flagship channel of Lifestyle & Media Broadcasting Ltd. It was launched in September 2007. Rebranding Goodtimes underwent a makeover in November 2013 to redefine the lifestyle entertainment category codes once again. Fro ...

(India)

Radio

On October 27, 2007, ATN launched a 24hr South Asian satellite radio station on the

XM Satellite Radio XM Satellite Radio (XM) was one of the three satellite radio ( SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Holdings. It provided pay-for-service radio, analogous to subscription cable television. Its se ...

platform. It features news, sports & entertainment programming broadcast primarily in Hindi & Punjabi, among other regional languages.

References

External links

Asian Television Network

ATN-Asian Radio

CRTC chart of ATN's assets
{{Asian Television Network Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario Companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange Television broadcasting companies of Canada Companies based in Markham, Ontario