XM Satellite Radio and the Asian Television Network![]()
(ATN) have partnered up to create a channel dedicated to the South Asian community: "ATN-Asian Radio."
ATN-Asian Radio (ch 159) will launch in October, providing both the U.S. and Canada with news, sports, music and entertainment for the South Asian community. ATN currently operates 14 television channels in Canada.
The channel will also offer live cricket commentary from ATN, Canada's largest distributor of World Class Cricket.
The programming on XM's ATN-Asian Radio will also include a range of music, from the best of Bollywood to popular South Asian artists. The channel will also broadcast Hindustani classical and carnatic music and will feature pop, folk, chutney and re-mixes.
While the
majority of the channel's talk programming will be in English, there will be a substantial amount of content broadcast in South Asian languages such as Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and Sinhalese, among others.