TORONTO, Feb. 3, 2022
/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 it has acquired exclusive Canadian
Broadcast rights for European Cricket League 2022.
The European Cricket League is a professional Ten10 cricket
league contested by the best cricket clubs of European countries.
It was formed with a goal to develop and popularize cricket in the
European continent. European Cricket League was founded in 2018 and
is an annual tournament played by the champion clubs of each of the
European partner countries' top league competitions. The
inaugural season of ECL was played in 2019 and this is a second
season with the games being postponed in 2020 & 2021 due to
COVID-19 cases in Europe. The
second staging of ECL 2022 will take place from February 7th to March 18th, 2022 in Cartama,
Spain. This 6 week High Octane T10
action will feature 144 games between 30 champion teams who will
battle for the ECL Trophy. All games will be aired LIVE on 2
channels dedicated to Cricket i.e CBN and ATN Cricket Plus and both
channels are available nationally on various Cable and Satellite
platforms across Canada.
"ATN was the first to bring the ICC World Cup of
Cricket live across Canada in
1987. Since then we have exclusively broadcast a large number of
Five Day Test Matches, One Day Internationals, limited over T-20
games including the Premier of IPL" said Dr. Shan Chandrasekar, President and CEO of ATN. "We
are now pleased to introduce the fast paced limited over T-10
European Cricket League" he added.
Roger Feiner, CEO of ECL, is
convinced that such partnership shows lots of positive feedback in
Canada: "The European Cricket
League is played to crown the best domestic club champions. The
many top European players will influence the interest in European
Cricket all over the world – Canada will see some top matches packaged in a
great TV-product! More than happy to partner with ATN"
The inaugural ECL (ECL19) was won by V.O.C. Rotterdam of the
Netherlands and they will be aiming to make it 2 in a row
this year.
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.
For more information please visit
www.asiantelevision.com
SOURCE Asian Television Network International Limited