ImaginAsian Entertainment, Inc was a multimedia company founded by Michael Hong and Augustine Hong and a group of investors that recognized the emerging importance of "all-things Asian." Based in New York City, its main attraction was a

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, iaTV, which premiered in 2004 and which focused on entertainment featuring Korean, Japanese, and South-East Asian content. The channel competed in certain markets with

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until April 2008, when the competing network ceased broadcasting. ImaginAsian itself ceased operations in 2011, selling its channel slot to

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for broadcast of the world feed of

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. They also operated

The ImaginAsian The ImaginAsian was a movie theater in midtown Manhattan, New York City, dedicated to exclusively showcasing Asian and Asian American films. Located on 59th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, The ImaginAsian was owned by ImaginAsian Entertain ...

, a renovated movie theater located in Midtown Manhattan that shows only first-run and classic East Asian films, as well as several film festivals per year. The company renovated a second former movie theater in Los Angeles that opened in December 2007, the former Linda Lea Theater, which originally showed Japanese films and served the Little Tokyo area before shuttering in the 1980s. In addition, past divisions of the company consisted of iaLink, ImaginAsian Entertainment's monthly on-line magazine, which at one point had over ten million subscribers, ImaginAsian Pictures and Home Entertainment, a film and DVD distribution division that released several DVDs of East Asian films and iaTV original shows, and the successful theatrical and DVD release of the Vietnamese American film ''

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'', and iaRadio, a block of radio programming both streamed on-line as well as made available on certain terrestrial stations.

List of corporate affiliates

*ImaginAsian Entertainment (IAEI) is the corporate parent *ImaginAsianTV (iaTV) is the television network *ImaginAsian Radio (iaRadio) is a streaming online radio *iaLink is an online e-zine *

The ImaginAsian Theater The ImaginAsian was a movie theater in midtown Manhattan, New York City, dedicated to exclusively showcasing Asian and Asian American films. Located on 59th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, The ImaginAsian was owned by ImaginAsian Entertainm ...

, a movie theater in

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which is now owned by Phoenix Theatres * ImaginAsian Pictures is for the creation, distribution, and promotion of films * ImaginAsian Home Entertainment is the DVD and home video division * The ImaginAsian Center is the film/event theatre in the

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area of Los Angeles, California, which opened on December 1, 2007. The Los Angeles center seems to have stopped operations in October 2008, though its web site (https://web.archive.org/web/20090105222531/http://www.theimaginasian.com/la) is still up.

Shows aired on ImaginAsian

Television programs

Eastern Animation

Japanese

Korean

List of over-the-air TV channels and cable providers

Cable/satellite providers

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Channel 560 * Hudson Valley, New York -

Channel 560 *

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Channel 157 **

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Channel 143 **

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Channel 196 (Arcadia, Monrovia and Pasadena) *

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Channel 28 *

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- Patriot Media Channel 149 *

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Channel 241 **

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Channel 109 ** Fision Channel 349 *

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Channel 342 *

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Channel 465 *

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Channel 134

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(Formerly W36AS) Channel 39 (Middlesex, Monmouth, Essex and Union Counties)