ATN Aastha broadcasts religious and spiritual programming in Hindi, Gujarati, and English, focusing mainly on the teachings and principles of Hinduism. Programming includes discourses, devotional music, meditation and yoga techniques, coverage of religious festivals, and ancient Indian scientific practices such as ayurveda. Programming is primarily sourced from Aastha International, an Indian-based television channel, in addition to Canadian content.
Historyedit
In April 2005, ATN was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called ATN - South Asian Devotional Music & Discourse Channel, described as "a national ethnic Category 2 pay television programming undertaking devoted to religious programming presented in South Asian languages."[1]
The channel launched on October 19, 2005 as ATN Aastha.[2][3]
On September 13, 2012, the CRTC approved Asian Television Network's request to convert ATN Aastha from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat. B third language service.[4]
aastha, aastha, canadian, exempt, category, hindi, language, specialty, channel, owned, asian, television, network, aasthacountrycanadabroadcast, areanationalheadquartersmarkham, ontarioprogrammingpicture, format480i, sdtv, ownershipownerasian, television, net. ATN Aastha is a Canadian exempt Category B Hindi language specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network ATN ATN AasthaCountryCanadaBroadcast areaNationalHeadquartersMarkham OntarioProgrammingPicture format480i SDTV OwnershipOwnerAsian Television Network name licensed by Vedic Broadcasting HistoryLaunchedOctober 2 2005 18 years ago 2005 10 02 LinksWebsiteATN Aastha ATN Aastha broadcasts religious and spiritual programming in Hindi Gujarati and English focusing mainly on the teachings and principles of Hinduism Programming includes discourses devotional music meditation and yoga techniques coverage of religious festivals and ancient Indian scientific practices such as ayurveda Programming is primarily sourced from Aastha International an Indian based television channel in addition to Canadian content History editIn April 2005 ATN was granted approval from the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC to launch a television channel called ATN South Asian Devotional Music amp Discourse Channel described as a national ethnic Category 2 pay television programming undertaking devoted to religious programming presented in South Asian languages 1 The channel launched on October 19 2005 as ATN Aastha 2 3 On September 13 2012 the CRTC approved Asian Television Network s request to convert ATN Aastha from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat B third language service 4 References edit Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005 139 CRTC 2005 04 08 ATN launches four more digital television channels and acquires more cricket Archived 2007 09 24 at the Wayback Machine ATN press release ATN launches four more digital television channels and acquires more cricket Archived October 17 2008 at the Wayback Machine Channel Canada 2005 10 24 AASTHA Revocation of licenceExternal links editOfficial website nbsp nbsp This article about a television station in Canada is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title ATN Aastha TV amp oldid 1194555010, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
