Asian Television Network

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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.

TypePublic (TSX-V: SAT)
IndustryMedia
Founded1971; 55 years ago (1971)
HeadquartersMarkham, Ontario, Canada
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Asian Television Network
TypePublic (TSX-V: SAT)
IndustryMedia
Founded1971; 55 years ago (1971)
HeadquartersMarkham, Ontario, Canada
Key people
Shan Chandrasekar, Chairman & CEO
ProductsBroadcasting
Websiteasiantelevision.com
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Asian Television Network headquarters in Markham

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.

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:

Radio

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ATN-Asian Radio
  • Canada
Broadcast area
Canada, United States
FrequencySirius 760
BrandingATN Radio
Programming
FormatSouth Asian programming
Ownership
OwnerAsian Television Network
History
First air date
September 24, 2007 (2007-09-24)
Links
WebsiteATN-Asian Radio
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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.[citation needed] In March 2025, SiriusXM Canada launched Dhamaka, a South Asian music channel produced in-house.[15]

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