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ATN-Asian Radio

ATN-Asian Radio was a SiriusXM Satellite Radio channel featuring programming dedicated South Asian community in North America. The channel's content was produced by the Canadian company Asian Television Network. The channel features: talk and phone-in shows, music and poetry, news and current affairs, and live cricket commentary.

The channel was in preview mode from 2007-09-24 until 2007-10-29 at 6 p.m. ET, at which point it was formally launched on XM Canada. The majority of the talk shows were in English with substantial coverage in Punjabi, Hindi, and other South Asian languages. On April 18, 2008, ATN-Asian Radio started broadcasting live Indian Premier League matches on the channel as a part of Asian Television Network International Limited broadcasting rights.

By 2011, it was still on XM only as the Canadian channels were among the last to be consolidated across the two services. In 2012, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission found that the channel failed to play any Canadian musical selections, causing XM to be out of compliance with Canadian content rules. By 2014, ATN-Asian Radio had been moved to SiriusXM channel 165. It aired every evening from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. Eastern as part of the Multicultural Radio channel.

ATN was removed from the SiriusXM lineup in January 2025. In March 2025, SiriusXM Canada launched Dhamaka, a South Asian music channel produced in-house.

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