Asian Television Network International LimitedTSXV: SAT

ATN reports outstanding financial results

TORONTO, Oct. 21 /CNW/ - (ATN) (TSX Venture-SAT) Asian Television Network
is pleased to announce our eleventh consecutive quarter of positive net
earnings. "We believe that this trend of increasing net earnings for the
company through our outstanding growth in revenue and cost control over the
past 3 years is now long term" said Mr. Shan Chandrasekar President and CEO of
ATN.
"We are confident that ATN will continue to present an improving balance
sheet for our investors." said Mr. Byrne Fulton Chief Financial Officer of
ATN. This trend of positive increasing earnings for the company is the result
of Management's focus on maintaining the growth of our sources of revenue, our
Canadian subscriber and advertising base by creative, interesting, fascinating
and varied programming which is the key to our continuing success.
Our revenues for the nine months ending September 30th, 2005 were
$4,966,063 as compared to $3,536,586 for the first nine months of 2004, a
140.4 % increase. Equally outstanding is our 9 months 2005 revenue equals the
12 months revenue for all of 2004. Earnings before amortization and financial
expense (also known as EBITDA) illustrate, the significant financial success
that management has achieved. For the nine months ending September 30,2005
EBITDA was $1,558,889 or 6.5 cents per share, compared with $734,647 or     
3.1 cents per share for the same period last year, an astounding 212.2% year
over year increase.

ATN owns and or operates eleven channels: at our our flagship channel,
ATN-ZEE, with the best of ZEE TV programming, ATN - ZEE Cinema, ATN - ZEE
Gujarati, ATN-Aastha, ATN Bangla, ATN- B4U, ATN-Alpha ETC Punjabi, ATN-Jaya
TV, ATN-ARY, CBN, and Sony Entertainment Television. ATN is the largest
distributor of World Class Cricket across Canada.