ATN wins the Canadian rights for 2007 India-Sri Lanka-West Indies Cricket

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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTORONTO, Jan. 17 /CNW/ - Asian Television Network International Limited\n(ATN) (TSX-SAT), Canada's largest South Asian Broadcaster and Canada's largest\nDistributor of World Class Cricket announces it has secured the exclusive\nCanadian Broadcast Rights for the One Day Internationals (ODIs) between India,\nSri Lanka, and West Indies commencing Saturday January 20th 2007. The India\nWest Indies ODIs will be shown live and rebroadcast exclusively on CBN across\nCanada and the India Sri Lanka ODIs will be shown on live exclusively on ATN-\nJAYA TV and rebroadcast on CBN.\n\n\nBoth series will take place in India during January and February 2007 and\nbring these international cricket rivalries to life for Canadian viewers.\n\n\nThe Indian team for the first two ODIs contains four openers - Sachin\nTendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa but the highlight\nof the series be Sourav Ganguly who has made a comeback on the ODI squad.\n\n\nWest Indies lead by Captain Brian Lara, has included uncapped Reyad Emrit\nin a 14-member squad for a series of four ODIs against India later this month.\nEmrit, the Trinidad and Tobago allrounder, is the only newcomer in the squad.\nFor Sri Lanka, Arnold and Chandana, who both starred in NCC's six-wicket win\nin the Premier limited overs final two weeks ago, make their comebacks along\nwith Nuwan Zoysa and Nuwan Kulasekera.\n\n\nFollowing the telecast of the world renowned Ashes between England and\nAustralia across Canada, ATN is currently broadcasting the Tri series between\nEngland - Australia and New Zealand. Also the ODI's and Test Matches between\nSouth Africa and Pakistan. These series are all shown live and rebroadcast on\nthe CBN Channel. Now with the addition of this world-class cricket from ATN\nfeaturing India, West Indies and Sri Lanka, cricket fans in Canada will have a\ngreat prelude to the World Cup.\n\n\nATN operates 13 channels, and has programming alliances with leading\nInternational Broadcasters. To subscribe to CBN or for more details about the\ncricket schedules and times of live broadcast please visit\nwww.asiantelevision.com or contact your local service provider.\n\n\n","length":2224,"tagName":"div"}]

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