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unusual facts about ATN


The British Curry Awards

The event has been shown on ITN, BBC World, BBC2, Sky, ATN, Channel One, Star Plus, Zee TV and others and is also covered by national, local and international newspapers.


1959 in Australian television

Additionally, ATN-7 and GTV-9 experimented with local drama with the Shell Presents productions of plays.

Ashfaq Hussain

After initially working part-time, Hussain joined Asian Television Network full-time when ATN beame a 24 channel in 1997.

Atlantic Tele-Network

ATN also operates through its subsidiary companies: Alltel (US), Commnet Wireless, LLC (US), GT&T (Guyana), Sovernet (US), CellularOne in Bermuda, ION Holdco, LLC (US), Islandcom Telecommunications (Turks & Caicos), and Choice Communications (US Virgin Islands).

On April 26, 2010, ATN acquired certain former Alltel wireless assets that Verizon Wireless was required to divest as part of the regulatory approvals granted for its purchase of Alltel earlier that year.

ATN Aastha TV

ATN Aastha broadcasts religious and spiritual programming in Hindi, Gujarati, and English, focusing mainly on the teachings and principles of Hinduism.

ATN News

Noted Bangladeshi journalist Abed Khan resigned from his post as ATN News' CEO and chief editor on April 20, 2013.

Gilbert Simondon

Another contributor to Gilbert Simondon: une pensée de l'individuation et de la technique, Simondon's friend John Hart, was the instigator of the very first translation -- from French into English c.1980 -- of Simondon's work (this at a university in Canada where Hart had founded both a Department of Computer Science and a Simondon-inspired network: the ATN, or Audio Tactile Network).

Movies OK

Canadian media company Asian Television Network rebranded its ATN Zee Cinema channel into a domestic version of the channel titled ATN Movies OK on July 25, 2012, under a brand licensing agreement with STAR.

Tommy Leonetti

While in Australia, Leonetti hosted his own talk-show from 1968 to 1970 for ATN-7, and provided the basis for the parody character Norman Gunston (according to creator Garry McDonald).

Vehicular automation

Groups such as RUF (Denmark), BiWay (UK), ATN (New Zealand) and TriTrack (USA) are working on projects consisting of private cars that dock onto monorail tracks and are driven autonomously around the track.


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