ATN Salutes Ted Rogers

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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nCable Pioneer remembered as a True Friend of Canadian Multicultural\nTelevision\n\n\nTORONTO, Dec. 8 /CNW/ - Shan Chandrasekar, president and CEO of Asian\nTelevision Network International Limited (ATN) today paid tribute to cable\ngiant Ted Rogers as the father of Canadian multicultural television.\n\n\n"Mr. Rogers was a visionary, a trail blazer and was one among the first\nentrepreneurs to understand the importance of Canadian multiculturalism," said\nMr. Chandrasekar, who began his own broadcasting career programming a South\nAsian television show in Toronto on a Rogers' community cable channel in the\nearly 1970s.\n\n\n"Long before CFMT was launched, Ted Rogers was the first cable operator\nto offer community programming in numerous languages. He has been a pioneer\nand a role model," Mr. Chandrasekar said.\n\n\n"Because of Mr. Ted Rogers' vision of consumer choice and diversity,\nmulticultural communities in parts of Canada have a rich legacy of Canadian\nprogramming in their mother tongues," he added.\n\n\nToday Rogers Cable in Toronto offers more than 60 third-language digital\ntelevision networks broadcasting in 22 languages. These include channels in\nSouth Asian languages such as Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Bangla, and\nGujarati, as well as Mandarin and Cantonese, Arabic, Italian, Greek, Russian,\nJapanese, Korean, Tagalog, Spanish, Vietnamese, Hebrew, German and Portuguese.\nATN operates 14 South Asian television networks, all carried on Rogers Cable.\n\n\n"Mr. Ted Rogers will be greatly missed. He felt deeply about fairness and\ndiversity, and was always a gentleman in his business dealings," said Mr.\nChandrasekar.\n\n\n","length":1792,"tagName":"div"}]

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