ATN DD Sports is a

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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). It airs live and tape-delayed

Cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

matches as well as other Asian sports such as

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, Kho-kho,

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and

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. Programming is derived from

DD Sports DD Sports is an Indian state-owned sports television channel, founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It telecasting from Central Production Centre in Delhi, India. It is a part of the Doorda ...

, India's only free-to-air national Sports channel.

History

In June 2009, Asian Television Network was granted approval from the

Canadian 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 Cricket Channel Two'', described as "a national, English-language ethnic Category 2 specialty programming service devoted to cricket matches from around the world and Canada as well as other sports from India."Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2009-364
CRTC 2009-06-18 The channel was launched on October 28, 2010 as ATN NEO Sports under a licensing agreement from the parent company of the Indian channel NEO Cricket. It sourced much of its programming from the India-based channel. ATN NEO Cricket was renamed ATN Cricket in March 2012. Shortly thereafter, in June 2012, the channel was renamed again, this time as ATN Sports. The Indian channel renamed NEO Prime on June 3, 2012. In May 2013, ATN announced a partnership with

Doordarshan Doordarshan (), abbreviated as DD, is India's State-owned enterprise, state-owned public broadcasting, public television broadcaster. Established by the Government of India on 15 September 1959, it is owned by the Ministry of Information and B ...

, India's public broadcaster. Along with the launch of several Doordarshan channels, ATN also acquired the rights to content from

for ATN Sports. As of 2015, the channel goes by the name ATN DD Sports.

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* Sports television networks in Canada Television channels and stations established in 2010 English-language television stations in Canada South Asian television in Canada 2010 establishments in Ontario {{Canada-tv-station-stub

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