Asian Television Network

Asian Television Network

Company type	Public (TSX-V: SAT)
Industry	Media
Founded	1971; 53 years ago (1971)
Headquarters	Markham, Ontario, Canada
Key people	Shan Chandrasekar, Chairman & CEO
Products	Broadcasting
Website	www.asiantelevision.net

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

2011 TSX Venture 50^[1]
2009 Newmarket Chamber of Commerce Large Business of the Year ^[2]
2008 Jaya Chandrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame ^[3]
2004 Shan Chandrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame ^[4]

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, ^{[citation needed]} as it possesses the Canadian broadcasting rights for many of the top cricket events in the world. ^{[citation needed]}

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 (Bengali)
ATN Brit Asia TV (Hindi/Punjabi)
ATN Star Plus (Hindi)
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 (English)
ATN DD Urdu (Urdu)
ATN Food Food (Lifestyle channel- Hindi)
ATN Gujarati (Gujarati)
ATN IBC Tamil
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 San (Hindi)
ATN Sikh Channel (Punjabi)
ATN Sony Aath (Bengali)
ATN Sony Max (Hindi)
ATN Sony Max 2 (Hindi)
ATN Sony TV (Hindi)
ATN SVBC (Telugu)
ATN Tamil Plus (Tamil)
ATN Times Now (English)
ATN Urdu (Urdu)
ATN Zoom (Hindi)
Commonwealth Broadcasting Network (English)
ATN Vijay TV (Tamil)
ATN Star Gold (Hindi)
ATN Vijay Super (Tamil)

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 (Pakistan)
ARY News (Pakistan)
ARY Qtv (Pakistan)
ARY Zauq (Pakistan)
Channel i (Bangladesh)
NDTV Good Times (India)

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.

References

^ TMX Group, 2011; source data from Capital IQ Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Newmarket Chamber of Commerce, 2009
^ Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2008;
^ Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2004; Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine