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

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and the

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. Headquartered in

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, the company has been in operation since 1997, and is headed by Indo-Canadian broadcaster Shan Chandrasekar.

Awards and recognition

* In 2011, ATN was ranked 9th in "Diversified Industries" on the TSX Venture 50. * In 2008, the executive vice president and vice president of programming, Jaya Chandrasekar was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. * In 2004, Shan Chandrasekar spoke at the CAB Convention.Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2004

Television and Radio

ATN currently owns and operates 54 Canadian television channels and has licences for several others. * ATN &TV (Hindi) * ATN Aastha TV (Hindi/Gujarati) * ATN ABP Sanjha (Punjabi) * ATN Alpha ETC Punjabi (Punjabi) * ATN ARY Digital (Urdu) * ATN ARY News (Urdu) * ATN ARY Musik (Urdu) * ATN B4U Movies (Hindi) * ATN B4U Music (Hindi) * ATN B4U Plus (Hindi) * ATN Bangla (Bengali) * ATN Colors (Hindi) * 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 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 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 CBN, or cbn, may refer to: Broadcasting organizations * Radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland: ** CBN (AM), CBC Radio One ** CBN-FM, CBC Music * Chronicle Broadcasting Network, the predecessor of ABS-CBN * CBN (Australian TV station), a TV ...

(English) * ATN Vijay TV (Tamil) * ATN Vijay Super (Tamil) * ATN Zee Punjabi (Punjabi)

Foreign Services

In addition to the 50 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: *

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(India) * ARY Qtv (Pakistan) *

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(Bangladesh) * NDTV Good Times (India)

Radio

On October 27, 2007, ATN launched a 24hr South Asian satellite radio station on the

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platform. It features news, sports & entertainment programming broadcast primarily in Hindi & Punjabi, among other regional languages.

References

External links

Asian Television Network

ATN-Asian Radio

CRTC chart of ATN's assets
{{Asian Television Network Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario Companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange Television broadcasting companies of Canada Companies based in Markham, Ontario Indo-Canadian culture Indian diaspora mass media