TORONTO, July 10,
2023 /CNW/ - Asian Television Network
International Limited (ATN) (TSXV: SAT), Canada's largest South Asian broadcaster and
pioneer broadcaster of Cricket, is pleased to announce that is has
acquired and renewed the Canadian Broadcast rights for Cricket West
Indies for 2 more years exclusively for Canada.
India begins their 2023-2025 World Test Championship (WTC) cycle
with a two-match series v West Indies on July 12, 2023 followed by three ODIs and five
T20Is with the tour set to end on August 13,
2023. The final leg of the tour - the last two T20Is - will
be hosted at the ground in Lauderhill in Florida, USA. India's Test team is facing West
Indies after their last performance in the WTC final against
Australia. The whole World will be
eagerly watching how Both these Powerful Teams will approach all 3
formats namely Five Day Tests, One Day Internationals and the Fast
paced T20s (Twenty Over Games).
All games will be aired LIVE on 2 popular channels namely CBN
and ATN Cricket Plus and both channels are available nationally on
various Cable and Satellite platforms across Canada.
"World Class Cricket has been a common denominator in our
Program Planning "said Dr. Shan
Chandrasekar, President and CEO of ATN. "When we telecast
Live International games from the West Indies and USA, the vast audience across Canada have a Great Prime-Time Advantage "he
added
The other series for 2023 & 2024 will feature tours from
England, South Africa and Bangladesh with a total of 68 days of exciting
International Cricket from the Caribbean. Apart from the Cricket West Indies
Rights, ATN also holds the exclusive rights for New Zealand Cricket
for the next season and will feature tours of Bangladesh, South
Africa and Australia.
A long-time broadcaster of international cricket, ATN most
recently was the exclusive Canadian rights holder for ICC Champions
Trophy 2017 and ICC WorldTwenty20 (2016) and was the first to bring
the World Cup of Cricket live via satellite to Canada in 1986. ATN's 54 channels
include programming that spans 9 languages and a variety of genres,
including news, sports and entertainment.
About ATN-Asian Television Network
International Limited
ATN serves Canada's diverse
cultural communities with over 50 specialty television channels.
The Company offers its flagship ATN-HD general interest service
along with 7 other general interest channels, 3 sports Channels, 7
news Channels, 5 Bollywood movie channels and a variety of channels
that include music, lifestyle, and several regional language
channels that includes Punjabi, Tamil, Bengali, Urdu, Gujarati
& Marathi. ATN has been a pioneer in the Production of
Multicultural Television Programming in Canada. ATN has programming alliances with
leading international broadcasters like Sony Entertainment
Television, Viacom, India Cast, Zee
Network, Doordarshan, Times Television, B4U, NDTV, Republic TV, ABP
News Network, Jaya TV, ARY, FOOD FOOD Network and many more. ATN is
also a pioneer broadcaster of Cricket in Canada and has exclusive broadcast rights for
various International Cricket Boards. ATN has its own State Of The
Art Production facilities. ATN's content is also available on
Amazon Prime in USA & UK, Bell Media's Crave in Canada and also operates a 24X7 South Asian
Radio Service on Sirius XM Radio across The United States and Canada. ATN's high class Studio Facilities
have also been used by Production Companies associated with
Netflix, CBC and others.
SOURCE Asian Television Network International Limited
