TORONTO, Oct. 5, 2018 /CNW/ - Asian Television Network
International Limited (ATN) (TSX-SAT), Canada's largest South Asian Broadcaster and
pioneer broadcaster of Cricket, is pleased to announce that it has
acquired Broadcast rights for the fifth season of Indian Super
League Soccer to be held in India
between September 2018 and
March 2019.
The Hero Indian Super League (ISL) is India's unrivalled
football championship kicked off in 2014. The league is co-promoted
by Reliance, Star India and supported by the All India Football
Federation (AIFF). India's leading industrialists and celebrities
from sports as well as the Indian film industry have heavily
invested in the league's ten franchises based in the following
cities: Chennai, Delhi, Goa,
Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata,
Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Jamshedpur.
For the first time in Indian football, globally renowned Soccer
players will be playing alongside the best Indian footballers. With
a mission to revolutionize the sport, Indian Super League is
positioned as a high quality and dynamic league that will elevate
Indian football to an international level.
"We are very excited to bring the Indian Super League to
Canada on 5 of our channels." said
Dr. Shan Chandrasekar, President and
CEO of ATN. "Our commitment to bring different programming options
to our viewers continue with this new addition to our current
line-up of Afghanistan premiere
League and the upcoming Cricket series from Australia and New
Zealand" he added
Indian Super League has become the third highest attended
football league in the World and will feature 10 clubs playing at
11 different venues with a total of 90 group stage games and 5
playoffs. All games will air LIVE on 5 ATN stations namely CBN, ATN
Cricket Plus, ATN Life, ATN Punjabi Plus, and ATN Bangla.
About ATN-Asian Television Network International Limited
(TSXV-SAT)
ATN serves Canada's diverse cultural communities with 54
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 Channels,
lifestyle Channels, Punjabi channels, and several regional language
channels. ATN has programming alliances with leading international
broadcasters like Doordarshan, Sony Entertainment Television,
Viacom, India Cast, "&TV "from
the Zee group, Times Television, B4U, Disney's UTV, ARY and many
more. ATN channels are available on various licensed Cable,
Satellite and IPTV Platforms across Canada like Shaw Cable, Bell TV, Rogers Cable,
Bell Fibe TV, TELUS Optic TV, Shaw Direct, Cogeco Cable, and
Others.
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