Diya TV is an American broadcast

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that was founded in 2009 by Ravi Kapur, an award-winning journalist, and is based in

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. It is the widest distributed Asian American owned and themed television network in the United States, reaching in excess of 70 million people over the air. Diya TV provides programming geared toward Indian American and South Asian interests in the United States, with programming rooted in news and investigative journalism in English, Hindi and Punjabi. Ravi Kapur was the former owner of

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in San Francisco, which was formerly affiliated with Diya TV. Biography. Diya TV is referred to as "America’s first and only South Asian broadcast television network".

List of affiliates

WRJK-LD WRJK-LD (channel 22) is a low-power television station licensed to Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States, serving the Chicago area as an affiliate of Diya TV. Owned by Major Market Broadcasting, the station maintains a transmitter atop the W ...

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Former affiliates

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Fresno, California Fresno () is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about and had a population of 542,107 in 2020, makin ...

References

External links

Diya TV website
Asia Television Companies of Southeast Asia 2009 establishments in Southeast Asia {{US-tv-stub