Ethnic Channels Group
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Private company | |
Industry | Broadcasting & Communications |
Founded | 2004 |
Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
Key people
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Slava Levin, CEO - Hari Srinivas, President |
Products | TV broadcasting & distribution |
Owner | Slava Levin and other Investors |
Website | www.ethnicchannels.com |
Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) is a Canadian television broadcasting, distribution and communications company, specializing in multicultural television channels for the Canadian and United States markets. ECG has been in operation since 2004 and was co-founded by Slava Levin.
Canadian operations
Ethnic Channels Group owns and operates 80+ Canadian television channels. In addition, they are the official Canadian distributor for an additional 9 channels. The channels are available through the following Canadian providers: Bell TV, Cogeco, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, Bell Fibe TV, MTS, SaskTel and Telus TV (IPTV & satellite).
Ethnic Channels Group operates/distributes the following channels:
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- RBTi (Brazil)
- TV Record Canada (Brazil)
- beIN Sports (Canada)
- Rawal TV (Canada)
- HRT Sat (Croatia)
- Nova World (Croatia)
- RTL Living (Croatia)
- Al-Nahar TV (Egypt)
- Al-Nahar Drama (Egypt)
- Dream 2 (Egypt)
- Melody Aflam (Egypt)
- Melody Drama (Egypt)
- Melody Hits (Egypt)
- ProSiebenSat.1 Welt (Germany)
- Greek Music Channel (Greece)
- Star International (Greece)
- Schlager TV (Holland)
- Aaj Tak (India)
- Big Magic International (India)
- India Today (India)
- Ten Cricket (India)
- Travelxp (India)
- Zee 24 Taas (India)
- Zee Bangla (India)
- Zee Bollywood (India)
- Zee Cinema (India)
- Zee Marathi (India)
- Zee Punjabi (India)
- Zee Salaam (India)
- Zee Talkies (India)
- Zee Tamil (India)
- Zee TV Canada (India)
- Zing (India)
- The Israeli Network (Israel)
- Rai Italia (Italy)
- Future Television (Lebanon)
- MRT1 Canada (Macedonia)
- MRT2 Canada (Macedonia)
- 2M Maroc (Morocco)
- Geo TV (Pakistan)
- Hum TV (Pakistan)
- FTV (Philippines)
- TVP Info (Poland)
- TVI Internacional (Portugal)
- AMedia (Russia)
- CTC International (Russia)
- Detskiy Kids (Russia)
- KHL-TV HD (Russia)
- RT (Russia)
- RTR Planeta (Russia)
- RTVi (Russia)
- Russian Illuzion (Russia)
- TVCenter International (Russia)
- Al-Resalah (Saudi Arabia)
- Rotana+ (Saudi Arabia)
- Rotana Aflam (Saudi Arabia)
- Rotana Cinema (Saudi Arabia)
- Rotana Classic (Saudi Arabia)
- Rotana Clip (Saudi Arabia)
- Rotana Khalijiah (Saudi Arabia)
- Rotana M+ (Saudi Arabia)
- Rotana Masriya (Saudi Arabia)
- Rotana Mousica (Saudi Arabia)
- RTS Sat (Serbia)
- Momo Kids (Taiwan)
- 5 Kanal (Ukraine)
- First National (Ukraine)
- Al Arabiya (United Arab Emirates)
- Abu Dhabi TV (United Arab Emirates)
- MBC (United Arab Emirates)
- MBC Maser (United Arab Emirates)
- OSN Ya Hala International (United Arab Emirates)
- BBC Arabic (United Kingdom)
- beIN Sports en Español (United States)
- German Kino Plus (United States)
- Iran TV Network (United States)
- Jewish Life Television (United States)
- NGTV (United States)
- SBTN (United States)
USA Operations
In 2009, Ethnic Channels Group launched a US division – Ethnic Channels Group Inc. (USA), through which it operates and distributes various ethnic channels to the United States cable and satellite market. ECG distributes the following channels in the USA, all of which are available via Dish Network:
- Jaya TV (Tamil)
- Jaya Max (Tamil)
- Jaya Movie (Tamil)
- Jaya Plus (Tamil)
- AMedia (Russian)
- CTC International (Russian)
- Detskiy (Russian)
- Russian Illuzion (Russian)
NEXTV
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In November 2007, Ethnic Channels Group launched NEXTV, an IPTV service that distributes various packages of international channels to consumers in Canada, United States and Australia, via broadband.