Asian Television Network
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| Public (TSX-V: SAT) | |
| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | Markham, Ontario |
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Key people
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Shan Chandrasekar, Chairman & CEO |
| Products | Broadcasting |
| Website | www |
Asian Television Network International Limited (often just referred to as Asian Television Network or ATN) is a publicly traded Canadian broadcasting company, with 54 television channels in 9 languages, serving 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.
ATN currently owns and operates 40 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.
In addition to the 41 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:
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.
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