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Asian Television Network (ATN) is a publicly traded Canadian broadcasting company (listed SAT on the TSX Venture Exchange), 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 recognitionEdit
- In 2011, ATN was ranked 9th in "Diversified Industries" on the TSX Venture 50.<ref>TMX Group, 2011; source data from Capital IQ Template:Webarchive</ref>
- In 2008, the executive vice president and vice president of programming, Jaya Chandrasekar was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- In 2004, Shan Chandrasekar spoke at the CAB Convention.<ref>Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2004; Template:Webarchive</ref>
Television and RadioEdit
ATN currently owns and operates 46 Canadian television channels and has licences for several others.
- ATN Aastha TV (Hindi/Gujarati)
- ATN ABP Sanjha (Punjabi)
- ATN Colors (Hindi)
- ATN ARY Digital (Urdu)
- ATN B4U Movies (Hindi)
- ATN B4U Music (Hindi)
- ATN B4U Plus (Hindi)
- ATN Bangla (Bengali)
- ATN Brit Asia TV (Hindi/Punjabi)
- ATN Colors Bangla (Bengali)
- ATN Colors Marathi (Marathi)
- ATN Colors Rishtey (Hindi)
- ATN Cricket Plus (English)
- ATN DD Bharati (Hindi)
- ATN DD India (Hindi)
- ATN DD News (Hindi)
- ATN DD Sports (English)
- ATN DD Urdu (Urdu)
- ATN Food Food (Hindi)
- ATN Gujarati (Gujarati)
- ATN Jaya TV (Tamil)
- ATN Life (Hindi)
- ATN Movies (Hindi)
- ATN MTV India (Hindi)
- ATN News (English)
- ATN News18 India (English)
- ATN PM One (Punjabi)
- ATN Punjabi (Punjabi)
- ATN Punjabi 5 (Punjabi)
- ATN Punjabi News (Punjabi)
- ATN Punjabi Plus (Punjabi)
- ATN Sony Sab (Hindi)
- ATN Sikh Channel (Punjabi)
- ATN Sony Aath (Bengali)
- ATN Sony Max (Hindi)
- ATN Sony Max 2 (Hindi)
- ATN Sony Pal (Hindi)
- ATN Sony TV (Hindi)
- ATN Sony Yay! (Hindi)
- ATN Star Plus (Hindi)
- ATN SVBC (Telugu)
- ATN Tamil Plus (Tamil)
- ATN Times Now (English)
- ATN Urdu (Urdu)
- ATN Zoom (Hindi)
- CBN (English)
- ATN Vijay TV (Tamil)
- ATN Vijay Super (Tamil)
Foreign ServicesEdit
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 News (Pakistan)
- ARY Qtv (Pakistan)
- ARY Zauq (Pakistan)
- Channel i (Bangladesh)
- NDTV Good Times (India)
RadioEdit
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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.