Ethnic Channels Group is a Canadian television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 broadcasting

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

, distribution and communications company, specializing in multicultural television channels for the Canadian and American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 markets. ECG has been in operation since 2004 and is owned by Slava Levin.

Canadian operations

ECG currently owns and operates 15 Canadian television channels and has licenses for several others. The channels are available through the following Canadian distributors: Bell TV, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable

Shaw Communications

Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...

, Bell Fibe TV

Bell Fibe TV

Bell Fibe TV is an IP-based television service offered by Bell Canada in Ontario and Quebec. It is bundled with Bell Fibe Internet, and uses the Microsoft Mediaroom platform....

, MTS

Manitoba Telecom Services

Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. , or MTS , formerly Manitoba Telephone System, is the primary telecommunications carrier in the Canadian province of Manitoba and the fourth largest telecommunications provider in Canada with 7000 employees...

 and Optik TV

Telus TV

Telus TV is a product of Telus that provides IPTV and Satellite service across the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Telus launched its IPTV based service in November 2005 to Telus customers in select communities of Alberta but is now available in several communities throughout...

.

Ethnic Channels Group currently operates the following channels:

• Abu Dhabi TV (Arabic)
• Dream 1
  Dream 1 (Canada)
  Dream 1 is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Dream 1 as well as local Canadian content.Dream 1 is a top rated general interest television service from Egypt...
  
   (Arabic)
• Dream 2
  Dream 2 (Canada)
  Dream 2 is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Dream 2 as well as local Canadian content.Dream 2 is a top rated general interest television service from Egypt...
  
   (Arabic)
• FTV (Filipino)
• ProSiebenSat.1 Welt (German)
• Imagine Dil Se (Hindi)
• The Israeli Network (Hebrew)
• Jaam-e-Jam (Persian)
• MEGA Cosmos
  MEGA Cosmos (Canada)
  MEGA Cosmos is a Canadian Category B Greek language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from MEGA Cosmos, a television channel in Greece, and local Canadian content....
  
   (Greek)
• Melody Aflam
  Melody Aflam (Canada)
  Melody Aflam is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Melody Aflam as well as local Canadian content.Melody Aflam is a top rated film channel from Egypt...
  
   (Arabic)
• Melody Drama
  Melody Drama (Canada)
  Melody Drama is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Melody Drama as well as local Canadian content....
  
   (Arabic)
• Melody Hits (Arabic)
• NTV Canada
  NTV Canada
  NTV Canada is a Canadian Category B Russian language specialty channel. The channel is owned by HTB Canada Inc, although Ethnic Channels Group distributes and operates the channel on HTB's behalf....
  
   (Russian) – co-owned with Luba Cherny
• Orbit Al Yawm
  Orbit Al Yawm (Canada)
  Orbit Al Yawm is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Orbit Al Yawm as well as local Canadian content....
  
   (Arabic)
• RTVi (Russian)
• SBTN (Vietnamese)

Former channels

• RTVi+
  RTVi+ (Canada)
  RTVi+ was a Canadian category 2 Russian language digital cable specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasted Russian movies, TV dramas, cartoons as well as local Canadian content.-TV Center:...
  
   (Russian) – dropped by all television providers who carried the channel in November 2009
• Tonis (Ukrainian) – dropped by Ethnic Channels due to insufficient growth in February 2009

Foreign services

In addition to the 15 channels that it has launched itself, ECG also distributes various foreign services in Canada. Ethnic Channels Group is the official distributor for the following channels:

• Aaj Tak
  Aaj Tak
  Aaj Tak is a 24-hour Hindi news television channel owned by TV Today Network Ltd. Aaj Tak loosely translates as "Till Today" or "Up to the Minute". Watched by some 45 million viewers in India’s cable and satellite universe, Aaj Tak is one of India’s largest privately owned news channels...
  
   (India)
• Al Jazeera English (Qatar)
• Future Television
  Future Television
  Future Television a television station broadcasting from Lebanon. It was founded in 1993 by Rafik Hariri, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. Future TV is also available via satellite in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Politically, the channel supports the views of the Future...
  
   (Lebanon)
• Geo TV
  Geo TV
  Geo TV or Geo Television is a Pakistani television network, founded by Mr. Mir Shakil ur Rehman in May 2002 and owned by Independent Media Corporation. The channel began test transmission on 14 August 2002, with regular transmission beginning 1 October 2002...
  
   (Pakistan)
• German Kino Plus
  German Kino Plus
  German Kino Plus is a German language Television channel in the United States that is owned by FennFamLLC. German Kino Plus launched on May 4, 2007 and is currently only available on Dish Network...
  
   (German – USA)
• Headlines Today
  Headlines Today
  Headlines Today is a popular 24-hour English language television network that carries news, current affairs and business programming in India, the channel is sponsored by TV Today Network Ltd. which is a part of the well-known India Today Group...
  
   (India)
• JLTV
  Jewish Life Television
  Jewish Life Television is the world’s only 24-hour, full-time TV network delivering Jewish-themed programming.  Launched in 2007, JLTV offers news, sports, lifestyle and entertainment programming including films, documentaries, music, reviews, interviews and special events...
  
   (Hebrew – USA)
• Maks TV (Russian – USA)
• Masala TV
  Masala TV
  Masala TV is the first dedicated 24-hours food television channel in the world in the language of Urdu. Masala TV was launched on 22 November 2006 in Pakistan. Just after few days of its launching, Masala became a household name that was recognized all across the country and helped set the dinner...
  
   (Pakistan)
• RT
  RT (TV network)
  RT, previously known as Russia Today, is a global multilingual television news network based in the Russian Federation run by the state-owned state-run RIA Novosti....
  
   (Russia)
• RTR Planeta
  RTR Planeta
  RTR-Planeta is the international service of VGTRK, a state-owned broadcaster in Russia. It is available throughout the world via cable and satellite. In fact, RTR Planeta is the only provider of Russian-language programming to the Asia-Pacific region covered by the AsiaSat2 Satellite...
  
   (Russia)

USA Operations

In 2009, Ethnic Channels Group launched a US division – Ethnic Channels Group Inc. (USA), through which they operate and distribute various ethnic channels to the American market. ECG currently distributes the following channels in the United States, all of which are available via Dish Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

:

• Comedy TV (Russian)
• CTC International (Russian)
• Jaya TV
  Jaya TV
  Jaya TV is one of the major Tamil language satellite television channels based in Chennai, India. Jaya TV is one of the early Tamil channels to entertain the Tamil audiences spread across Globe....
  
   (Tamil)
• Jaya Max (Tamil)
• Jaya Plus (Tamil)
• KHL-TV
  Kontinental Hockey League
  The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
  
   (Russian)
• La Minor TV (Russian)
• Russian Extreme Sports (Russian)

NEXTV

In November 2007, Ethnic Channels Group launched NEXTV

NEXTV

NEXTV is a Canadian-based IPTV provider that delivers digital television services via broadband. It launched in 2007 and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group, a Canadian ethnic broadcaster...

, an IPTV

IPTV

Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...

 service that distributes various packages of international channels to consumers in Canada via broadband.

See also

• List of broadcasting licences held by Ethnic Channels Group

Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) is a Canadian television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 broadcasting

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

, distribution and communications company, specializing in multicultural television channels for the Canadian and American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 markets. ECG has been in operation since 2004 and is owned by Slava Levin.

Canadian operations

ECG currently owns and operates 15 Canadian television channels and has licenses for several others. The channels are available through the following Canadian distributors: Bell TV, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable

Shaw Communications

Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...

, Bell Fibe TV

Bell Fibe TV

Bell Fibe TV is an IP-based television service offered by Bell Canada in Ontario and Quebec. It is bundled with Bell Fibe Internet, and uses the Microsoft Mediaroom platform....

, MTS

Manitoba Telecom Services

Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. , or MTS , formerly Manitoba Telephone System, is the primary telecommunications carrier in the Canadian province of Manitoba and the fourth largest telecommunications provider in Canada with 7000 employees...

 and Optik TV

Telus TV

Telus TV is a product of Telus that provides IPTV and Satellite service across the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Telus launched its IPTV based service in November 2005 to Telus customers in select communities of Alberta but is now available in several communities throughout...

.

Ethnic Channels Group currently operates the following channels:

• Abu Dhabi TV (Arabic)
• Dream 1
  Dream 1 (Canada)
  Dream 1 is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Dream 1 as well as local Canadian content.Dream 1 is a top rated general interest television service from Egypt...
  
   (Arabic)
• Dream 2
  Dream 2 (Canada)
  Dream 2 is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Dream 2 as well as local Canadian content.Dream 2 is a top rated general interest television service from Egypt...
  
   (Arabic)
• FTV (Filipino)
• ProSiebenSat.1 Welt (German)
• Imagine Dil Se (Hindi)
• The Israeli Network (Hebrew)
• Jaam-e-Jam (Persian)
• MEGA Cosmos
  MEGA Cosmos (Canada)
  MEGA Cosmos is a Canadian Category B Greek language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from MEGA Cosmos, a television channel in Greece, and local Canadian content....
  
   (Greek)
• Melody Aflam
  Melody Aflam (Canada)
  Melody Aflam is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Melody Aflam as well as local Canadian content.Melody Aflam is a top rated film channel from Egypt...
  
   (Arabic)
• Melody Drama
  Melody Drama (Canada)
  Melody Drama is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Melody Drama as well as local Canadian content....
  
   (Arabic)
• Melody Hits (Arabic)
• NTV Canada
  NTV Canada
  NTV Canada is a Canadian Category B Russian language specialty channel. The channel is owned by HTB Canada Inc, although Ethnic Channels Group distributes and operates the channel on HTB's behalf....
  
   (Russian) – co-owned with Luba Cherny
• Orbit Al Yawm
  Orbit Al Yawm (Canada)
  Orbit Al Yawm is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Orbit Al Yawm as well as local Canadian content....
  
   (Arabic)
• RTVi (Russian)
• SBTN (Vietnamese)

Former channels

• RTVi+
  RTVi+ (Canada)
  RTVi+ was a Canadian category 2 Russian language digital cable specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasted Russian movies, TV dramas, cartoons as well as local Canadian content.-TV Center:...
  
   (Russian) – dropped by all television providers who carried the channel in November 2009
• Tonis (Ukrainian) – dropped by Ethnic Channels due to insufficient growth in February 2009

Foreign services

In addition to the 15 channels that it has launched itself, ECG also distributes various foreign services in Canada. Ethnic Channels Group is the official distributor for the following channels:

• Aaj Tak
  Aaj Tak
  Aaj Tak is a 24-hour Hindi news television channel owned by TV Today Network Ltd. Aaj Tak loosely translates as "Till Today" or "Up to the Minute". Watched by some 45 million viewers in India’s cable and satellite universe, Aaj Tak is one of India’s largest privately owned news channels...
  
   (India)
• Al Jazeera English (Qatar)
• Future Television
  Future Television
  Future Television a television station broadcasting from Lebanon. It was founded in 1993 by Rafik Hariri, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. Future TV is also available via satellite in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Politically, the channel supports the views of the Future...
  
   (Lebanon)
• Geo TV
  Geo TV
  Geo TV or Geo Television is a Pakistani television network, founded by Mr. Mir Shakil ur Rehman in May 2002 and owned by Independent Media Corporation. The channel began test transmission on 14 August 2002, with regular transmission beginning 1 October 2002...
  
   (Pakistan)
• German Kino Plus
  German Kino Plus
  German Kino Plus is a German language Television channel in the United States that is owned by FennFamLLC. German Kino Plus launched on May 4, 2007 and is currently only available on Dish Network...
  
   (German – USA)
• Headlines Today
  Headlines Today
  Headlines Today is a popular 24-hour English language television network that carries news, current affairs and business programming in India, the channel is sponsored by TV Today Network Ltd. which is a part of the well-known India Today Group...
  
   (India)
• JLTV
  Jewish Life Television
  Jewish Life Television is the world’s only 24-hour, full-time TV network delivering Jewish-themed programming.  Launched in 2007, JLTV offers news, sports, lifestyle and entertainment programming including films, documentaries, music, reviews, interviews and special events...
  
   (Hebrew – USA)
• Maks TV (Russian – USA)
• Masala TV
  Masala TV
  Masala TV is the first dedicated 24-hours food television channel in the world in the language of Urdu. Masala TV was launched on 22 November 2006 in Pakistan. Just after few days of its launching, Masala became a household name that was recognized all across the country and helped set the dinner...
  
   (Pakistan)
• RT
  RT (TV network)
  RT, previously known as Russia Today, is a global multilingual television news network based in the Russian Federation run by the state-owned state-run RIA Novosti....
  
   (Russia)
• RTR Planeta
  RTR Planeta
  RTR-Planeta is the international service of VGTRK, a state-owned broadcaster in Russia. It is available throughout the world via cable and satellite. In fact, RTR Planeta is the only provider of Russian-language programming to the Asia-Pacific region covered by the AsiaSat2 Satellite...
  
   (Russia)

USA Operations

In 2009, Ethnic Channels Group launched a US division – Ethnic Channels Group Inc. (USA), through which they operate and distribute various ethnic channels to the American market. ECG currently distributes the following channels in the United States, all of which are available via Dish Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

:

• Comedy TV (Russian)
• CTC International (Russian)
• Jaya TV
  Jaya TV
  Jaya TV is one of the major Tamil language satellite television channels based in Chennai, India. Jaya TV is one of the early Tamil channels to entertain the Tamil audiences spread across Globe....
  
   (Tamil)
• Jaya Max (Tamil)
• Jaya Plus (Tamil)
• KHL-TV
  Kontinental Hockey League
  The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
  
   (Russian)
• La Minor TV (Russian)
• Russian Extreme Sports (Russian)

NEXTV

In November 2007, Ethnic Channels Group launched NEXTV

NEXTV

NEXTV is a Canadian-based IPTV provider that delivers digital television services via broadband. It launched in 2007 and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group, a Canadian ethnic broadcaster...

, an IPTV

IPTV

Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...

 service that distributes various packages of international channels to consumers in Canada via broadband.

See also

• List of broadcasting licences held by Ethnic Channels Group

Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) is a Canadian television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 broadcasting

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

, distribution and communications company, specializing in multicultural television channels for the Canadian and American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 markets. ECG has been in operation since 2004 and is owned by Slava Levin.

Canadian operations

ECG currently owns and operates 15 Canadian television channels and has licenses for several others. The channels are available through the following Canadian distributors: Bell TV, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable

Shaw Communications

Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...

, Bell Fibe TV

Bell Fibe TV

Bell Fibe TV is an IP-based television service offered by Bell Canada in Ontario and Quebec. It is bundled with Bell Fibe Internet, and uses the Microsoft Mediaroom platform....

, MTS

Manitoba Telecom Services

Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. , or MTS , formerly Manitoba Telephone System, is the primary telecommunications carrier in the Canadian province of Manitoba and the fourth largest telecommunications provider in Canada with 7000 employees...

 and Optik TV

Telus TV

Telus TV is a product of Telus that provides IPTV and Satellite service across the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Telus launched its IPTV based service in November 2005 to Telus customers in select communities of Alberta but is now available in several communities throughout...

.

Ethnic Channels Group currently operates the following channels:

• Abu Dhabi TV (Arabic)
• Dream 1
  Dream 1 (Canada)
  Dream 1 is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Dream 1 as well as local Canadian content.Dream 1 is a top rated general interest television service from Egypt...
  
   (Arabic)
• Dream 2
  Dream 2 (Canada)
  Dream 2 is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Dream 2 as well as local Canadian content.Dream 2 is a top rated general interest television service from Egypt...
  
   (Arabic)
• FTV (Filipino)
• ProSiebenSat.1 Welt (German)
• Imagine Dil Se (Hindi)
• The Israeli Network (Hebrew)
• Jaam-e-Jam (Persian)
• MEGA Cosmos
  MEGA Cosmos (Canada)
  MEGA Cosmos is a Canadian Category B Greek language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from MEGA Cosmos, a television channel in Greece, and local Canadian content....
  
   (Greek)
• Melody Aflam
  Melody Aflam (Canada)
  Melody Aflam is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Melody Aflam as well as local Canadian content.Melody Aflam is a top rated film channel from Egypt...
  
   (Arabic)
• Melody Drama
  Melody Drama (Canada)
  Melody Drama is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Melody Drama as well as local Canadian content....
  
   (Arabic)
• Melody Hits (Arabic)
• NTV Canada
  NTV Canada
  NTV Canada is a Canadian Category B Russian language specialty channel. The channel is owned by HTB Canada Inc, although Ethnic Channels Group distributes and operates the channel on HTB's behalf....
  
   (Russian) – co-owned with Luba Cherny
• Orbit Al Yawm
  Orbit Al Yawm (Canada)
  Orbit Al Yawm is a Canadian Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasts programming from Orbit Al Yawm as well as local Canadian content....
  
   (Arabic)
• RTVi (Russian)
• SBTN (Vietnamese)

Former channels

• RTVi+
  RTVi+ (Canada)
  RTVi+ was a Canadian category 2 Russian language digital cable specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcasted Russian movies, TV dramas, cartoons as well as local Canadian content.-TV Center:...
  
   (Russian) – dropped by all television providers who carried the channel in November 2009
• Tonis (Ukrainian) – dropped by Ethnic Channels due to insufficient growth in February 2009

Foreign services

In addition to the 15 channels that it has launched itself, ECG also distributes various foreign services in Canada. Ethnic Channels Group is the official distributor for the following channels:

• Aaj Tak
  Aaj Tak
  Aaj Tak is a 24-hour Hindi news television channel owned by TV Today Network Ltd. Aaj Tak loosely translates as "Till Today" or "Up to the Minute". Watched by some 45 million viewers in India’s cable and satellite universe, Aaj Tak is one of India’s largest privately owned news channels...
  
   (India)
• Al Jazeera English (Qatar)
• Future Television
  Future Television
  Future Television a television station broadcasting from Lebanon. It was founded in 1993 by Rafik Hariri, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. Future TV is also available via satellite in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Politically, the channel supports the views of the Future...
  
   (Lebanon)
• Geo TV
  Geo TV
  Geo TV or Geo Television is a Pakistani television network, founded by Mr. Mir Shakil ur Rehman in May 2002 and owned by Independent Media Corporation. The channel began test transmission on 14 August 2002, with regular transmission beginning 1 October 2002...
  
   (Pakistan)
• German Kino Plus
  German Kino Plus
  German Kino Plus is a German language Television channel in the United States that is owned by FennFamLLC. German Kino Plus launched on May 4, 2007 and is currently only available on Dish Network...
  
   (German – USA)
• Headlines Today
  Headlines Today
  Headlines Today is a popular 24-hour English language television network that carries news, current affairs and business programming in India, the channel is sponsored by TV Today Network Ltd. which is a part of the well-known India Today Group...
  
   (India)
• JLTV
  Jewish Life Television
  Jewish Life Television is the world’s only 24-hour, full-time TV network delivering Jewish-themed programming.  Launched in 2007, JLTV offers news, sports, lifestyle and entertainment programming including films, documentaries, music, reviews, interviews and special events...
  
   (Hebrew – USA)
• Maks TV (Russian – USA)
• Masala TV
  Masala TV
  Masala TV is the first dedicated 24-hours food television channel in the world in the language of Urdu. Masala TV was launched on 22 November 2006 in Pakistan. Just after few days of its launching, Masala became a household name that was recognized all across the country and helped set the dinner...
  
   (Pakistan)
• RT
  RT (TV network)
  RT, previously known as Russia Today, is a global multilingual television news network based in the Russian Federation run by the state-owned state-run RIA Novosti....
  
   (Russia)
• RTR Planeta
  RTR Planeta
  RTR-Planeta is the international service of VGTRK, a state-owned broadcaster in Russia. It is available throughout the world via cable and satellite. In fact, RTR Planeta is the only provider of Russian-language programming to the Asia-Pacific region covered by the AsiaSat2 Satellite...
  
   (Russia)

USA Operations

In 2009, Ethnic Channels Group launched a US division – Ethnic Channels Group Inc. (USA), through which they operate and distribute various ethnic channels to the American market. ECG currently distributes the following channels in the United States, all of which are available via Dish Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

:

• Comedy TV (Russian)
• CTC International (Russian)
• Jaya TV
  Jaya TV
  Jaya TV is one of the major Tamil language satellite television channels based in Chennai, India. Jaya TV is one of the early Tamil channels to entertain the Tamil audiences spread across Globe....
  
   (Tamil)
• Jaya Max (Tamil)
• Jaya Plus (Tamil)
• KHL-TV
  Kontinental Hockey League
  The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
  
   (Russian)
• La Minor TV (Russian)
• Russian Extreme Sports (Russian)

NEXTV

In November 2007, Ethnic Channels Group launched NEXTV

NEXTV

NEXTV is a Canadian-based IPTV provider that delivers digital television services via broadband. It launched in 2007 and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group, a Canadian ethnic broadcaster...

, an IPTV

IPTV

Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...

service that distributes various packages of international channels to consumers in Canada via broadband.

External links

• Ethnic Channels Group
• CRTC chart of ECG's assets