Aastha-The Faith Channel was India’s major socio-spiritual-cultural television channel, and was launched in Canada in 2005 by South Asian Network International Limited (ATN). It was a specific condition of licence that no programming should be in the English language, and that there should be 15% Canadian content in the channel’s programming. Aasthatv Website Ownership: South Asian […]
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A specialty channel to be known as the Urdu Channel was licensed in November 2000 to South Asian Network International Limited (ATN) to provide a service entirely in the Urdu language, with a proportion of Canadian content as a mandatory requirement of the licence. Subsequently the channel was rebranded as ARY Digital, and carried a […]
Licensed to South Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) in 2000, and launched in 2001, B4U (Bollywood For You) Movies offered the best of the movie programming offered by this popular Hindi channel, plus a proportion of Canadian-originated material to meet Canadian content licence obligations. www.asiantelevision.com/atnb4u.htm Written by Pip Wedge – June, 2007 Ownership: South Asian Network […]
Originally licensed to Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) as ATN Music Network One, and rebranded on being launched in April 2006, B4U (Bollywood For You) Music carried programming from a highly popular Hindi music channel, with movies, videos and specials interviews with artists, scenes from the production of their music videos and songs. The […]
Asian Television Network International Limited were licensed in January 2005 to operate a cable specialty channel to provide a service “devoted to programming of interest to persons who speak Bengali”. Not less than 15% of the programming was required to be Canadian in content, with the balance originating from Dhaka, Bangladesh. The channel offered a […]
Television Network International Limited (later ATN) was licensed in November 2000 to operate The Caribbean and African Network as a cable specialty channel dedicated to serving Canadian communities with those origins. The channel was launched in 2001, by which time it had been renamed the Commonwealth Broadcasting Network, and its program schedule was primarily dedicated […]
In 2007 the Asian Television Network pleased thousands of South Asian cricket loving Canadians (and many whose roots were from the rest of the world’s cricketing countries) by launching ATN Cricket Plus, offering current and archival cricket matches from around the world as well as from Canada. The channel also carried small amounts of field […]
This cable specialty service was licensed to South Asian Television Network International Limited (later ATN) in November 2000 to serve Canada’s Tamil-speaking community. Much of the programming originated with Jaya TV in India, and the channel is known both as Tamil TV and Jaya TV in Canada. The channel was proud of its family-oriented program schedule. ATN later […]
In April 2005, Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) was granted a licence to run a cable specialty channel to be known as ATN- South Asian News – English, to be devoted to news about the South Asian sub-continent, and broadcast entirely in English. The now-standard requirement of a minimum of 15% Canadian content was a […]
Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) was licensed in April 2005 to operate a new cable specialty channel to be known as ATN – Hindi Movie Channel Two (ATN having been licensed back in 2000 to operate Hindi Move Channel One, that later became B4U Movies). The channel was to carry exclusively theatrical films in the […]