Asian Television Network

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.

Asian Television Network
TypePublic (TSX-V: SAT)
IndustryMedia
Founded1971 (1971)
HeadquartersMarkham, Ontario, Canada
Key people
Shan Chandrasekar, Chairman & CEO
ProductsBroadcasting
Websitewww.asiantelevision.net
Asian Television Network headquarters in Markham

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, as it possesses the Canadian broadcasting rights for many of the top cricket events in the world.

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:

Radio
Main article: ATN-Asian 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.

See also

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