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.

Awards and recognition

 * 2011 TSX Venture 50
 * 2009 Newmarket Chamber of Commerce Large Business of the Year
 * 2008 Jaya Chandrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame
 * 2004 Shan Chandrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame

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.


 * ATN Aastha TV (Hindi/Gujarati)
 * ATN ABP Sanjha (Punjabi)
 * ATN Aapka Colors (Hindi)
 * ATN ARY Digital (Urdu)
 * ATN B4U Movies (Hindi)
 * ATN B4U Music (Hindi)
 * ATN B4U Plus (Hindi)
 * ATN Bangla (Bengali)
 * ATN Brit Asia TV (Hindi/Punjabi)
 * ATN Star Plus (Hindi)
 * ATN Colors Bangla (Bengali)
 * ATN Colors Marathi (Marathi)
 * ATN Colors Rishtey (Hindi)
 * ATN Cricket Plus (Sports channel- English)
 * ATN DD Bharati (Culture- Hindi)
 * ATN DD India (Hindi)
 * ATN DD News (Hindi)
 * ATN DD Sports (English)
 * ATN DD Urdu (Urdu)
 * ATN Food Food (Lifestyle channel- Hindi)
 * ATN Gujarati (Gujarati)
 * ATN IBC Tamil
 * 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 Sikh Channel (Punjabi)
 * ATN Sony Aath (Bengali)
 * ATN Sony Max (Hindi)
 * ATN Sony Max 2 (Hindi)
 * ATN Sony TV (Hindi)
 * ATN SVBC (Telugu)
 * ATN Tamil Plus (Tamil)
 * ATN Times Now (English)
 * ATN Urdu (Urdu)
 * ATN Zoom (Hindi)
 * Commonwealth Broadcasting Network (English)
 * ATN Vijay TV (Tamil)
 * ATN Star Gold (Hindi)
 * ATN Vijay Super (Tamil)

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:


 * ABP News (India)
 * ARY Musik (Pakistan)
 * ARY News (Pakistan)
 * ARY Qtv (Pakistan)
 * ARY Zauq (Pakistan)
 * Channel i (Bangladesh)
 * NDTV Good Times (India)

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.