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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 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

  • In 2011, ATN was ranked 9th in "Diversified Industries" on the TSX Venture 50.[1]
  • In 2008, the executive vice president and vice president of programming, Jaya Chandrasekar was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame.[2]
  • In 2004, Shan Chandrasekar spoke at the CAB Convention.[3]

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 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 Times Now (English)
  • ATN Urdu (Urdu)
  • ATN Zoom (Hindi)
  • CBN (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:

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

Radio

ATN-Asian Radio was a SiriusXM Satellite Radio channel featuring programming dedicated South Asian community in North America.[4] The channel's content was produced by the Asian Television Network.[5] The channel features: talk and phone-in shows,[6] music and poetry,[7] news and current affairs,[8] and live cricket commentary.[9]

The channel was in preview mode from 2007-09-24 until 2007-10-29 at 6 p.m. ET, at which point it was formally launched on XM Canada. The majority of the talk shows were in English[10] with substantial coverage in Punjabi, Hindi, and other South Asian languages.[9] On April 18, 2008, ATN-Asian Radio started broadcasting live Indian Premier League matches on the channel as a part of Asian Television Network International Limited broadcasting rights.[11]

By 2011, it was still on XM only as the Canadian channels were among the last to be consolidated across the two services.[12] In 2012, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission found that the channel failed to play any Canadian musical selections, causing XM to be out of compliance with Canadian content rules.[13] By 2014, ATN-Asian Radio had been moved to SiriusXM channel 165. It aired every evening from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. Eastern as part of the Multicultural Radio channel.[14]

ATN was removed from the SiriusXM lineup in January 2025. In March 2025, SiriusXM Canada launched Dhamaka, a South Asian music channel produced in-house.[15]

See also

  • List of broadcasting licences held by Asian Television Network

External links

References

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  2. CAB Announces Broadcast Hall of Fame Inductees web.archive.org, retrieved 2025-04-10^
  3. Canadian Association of Broadcasters, 2004;^
  4. ATN Asian Radio atnasianradio.com, retrieved 2019-10-22^
  5. Asian Television Network on SiriusXM SiriusXM, retrieved 2019-10-22^
  6. ATN - Asian Radio - SiriusXM Channel 165 Streema, retrieved 2019-10-22^
  7. Students.com students.com, retrieved 2019-10-22^
  8. XM To Add ATN-Asian Radio Channel All Access, retrieved 2019-10-22^
  9. XM Canada set to launch 'ATN-Asian Radio' Channel Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., 2007-09-18, retrieved 2007-09-18^
  10. ATN to launch Republic TV in Canada markets.businessinsider.com, retrieved 2019-10-22^
  11. THEY GAVE YOU NHL & NFL Now ATN Gives You IPL Asian Television Network International Limited, 2008-04-15, retrieved 2008-04-21^
  12. New SiriusXM Channel Lineup RadioInsight, 2011-05-03, retrieved 2019-10-22^
  13. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-629 - Sirius Canada and XM Canada - Licence renewal Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, 2012-11-16, retrieved 2026-03-07^
  14. ATN Asian Radio atnasianradio.com, retrieved 2026-03-07^
  15. Lance Venta. SiriusXM Launches South Asian Channel RadioInsight, March 26, 2025, retrieved March 26, 2025^