Zee TV and B4U
B4U Movies is the ‘Gateway to Bollywood’. B4U guarantees five films every day, a satellite premiere every Saturday night, and comes with a blockbuster promise every Sunday night. This is topped with exclusive star interviews, behind-the-scenes, making of films, music-based programs, news and interactive programs. It is the first television channel in the world to come up with the concept of Movie-on-Demand whereby a movie is shown as per viewer’s choice voted through the website of this channel.
Zee TV is a flagship channel of Zee Network. It was launched in October 1992. It is shown in more than 80 countries and accessed by over 225 million viewers globally. In all these years Zee TV has created strong brand equity and is the largest media franchise serving the South Asian diasporas. One of the first channels to be launched in the Indian cable network, Zee TV has driven the growth of the satellite and cable industry in India. Zee TV is the only channel to offer daily news feeds in Hindi, Punjabi and Gujarati from the sub-continent as well as other popular programs. Today the channel has a multi genre offering again and is living up to its image of being a socially conscious channel.
Asian Television Network international Limited (often just referred to as Asian television Network or ATN) is a Canadian licensed television broadcaster providing premium programming in several South Asian languages, as well as English, to communities across Canada. ATN has programming alliances with leading broadcasters such as Zee TV, STAR Plus, B4U, Sony Entertainment Television Asia, Alpha ETC Punjabi, ARY digital, and Jaya TV. It has been broadcasting since 1997 and is a publicly traded company on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol ” SAT”. The company is headquartered in Newmarket, Ontario, and is headed by longtime Indo-Canadian broadcasting stalwart Shan Chandrasekar.