Asian Television Network Explained

Asian Television Network
Type:Public
Industry:Media
Location:Markham, Ontario, Canada
Key People:Shan Chandrasekar, Chairman & CEO
Products:Broadcasting

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 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

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.

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:

Radio

See main article: ATN-Asian 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.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.tmx.com/en/pdf/tmxmoney/2011_V50_rankings_list.pdf TMX Group, 2011; source data from Capital IQ
  2. http://www.newmarketchamber.ca/Previous-Award-Winners Newmarket Chamber of Commerce, 2009
  3. http://www.cab-acr.ca/english/media/news/08/nr_oct1708.shtm Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2008
  4. http://www.cab-acr.ca/english/media/news/04/ma_nov2604.pdf Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2004