Asian Television Network

Asian Television Network 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.

WWW asiantelevision.net

Awards and recognition

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

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

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.