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ATN Bangla is a
The channel launched on October 19, 2005 as ATN Bangla.
On September 13, 2012, the CRTC approved Asian Television Network's request to convert ATN Bangla from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat. B third language service.ATN Bangla – Revocation of licence
/ref> In September 2014, ATN lost the rights to programming from ATN Bangla in Bangladesh. The channel was subsequently re-branded with a generic logo but retains the same name and now airs foreign programming from India as well as Bangladesh.
Canadian
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exempt Category B Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...
pay television
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channel
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owned by Asian Television Network
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 So ...
(ATN).
ATN Bangla broadcasts a variety of programming in the Bengali language including news, films, television dramas and talk shows. It airs programming from foreign sources in India and Bangladesh as well as locally produced Canadian content.
History
In April 2005, ATN was granted approval from theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; ) is a public organization in Canada tasked with the mandate as a regulatory agency tribunal for various electronic communications, covering broadcasting and telecommunic ...
(CRTC) to launch a television channel called ''ATN - Bangla Channel One'', described as ''"a national ethnic Category 2 pay television programming undertaking devoted to programming of interest to persons who speak Bengali."''
The channel launched on October 19, 2005 as ATN Bangla.
On September 13, 2012, the CRTC approved Asian Television Network's request to convert ATN Bangla from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat. B third language service./ref> In September 2014, ATN lost the rights to programming from ATN Bangla in Bangladesh. The channel was subsequently re-branded with a generic logo but retains the same name and now airs foreign programming from India as well as Bangladesh.
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* Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario Specialty television channels in Canada Television channels and stations established in 2005 Bangladeshi-Canadian culture Bengali-Canadian culture Bengali-language television channels South Asian Canadian culture South Asian television in Canada {{Canada-tv-station-stub