ATN brings you India-England Cricket series

    TORONTO, Nov. 17 /CNW/ - Asian Television Network International Limited
(ATN) (TSX-SAT), Canada's pioneer South Asian Broadcaster and Canada's largest
Distributor of World Class Cricket announces it has secured the Canadian
Broadcast Rights for the cricket series between England and India which just
commenced. This series of 7 ODI's and 2 Test matches will be shown live on CBN
and re-broadcast on ATN- Cricket Plus.
    India won the recently completed series with Australia and is keen to
continue their winning ways. England has also had recent success and is
focused on defeating their long time rival. These games feature two of the
worlds Cricket powerhouse teams and will take place in India. Each team has
their experienced star players participating in the series including from
India MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, and Harbhajan
Singh and from England Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff,
James Anderson, and Steve Harmison. The two greenhorn captains are Dhoni and
Pietersen, both perfect fits for their jobs, face off in this series. The
Captains are flushed with recent success and all this leads to exciting,
challenging and extremely enjoyable cricket for all cricket lovers across
Canada.
    CBN (the Commonwealth Broadcasting Network) and ATN-Cricket Plus are
ATN's two sports oriented channels. ATN operates 14 channels and has
programming alliances with leading International Broadcasters. To subscribe to
CBN or ATN-Cricket Plus and for more details about the cricket schedules and
times of live broadcast please visit www.asiantelevision.com or contact your
local service provider.

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For further information: B. Fulton, CFO, Asian Television Network
International Limited, Newmarket, Ontario, (905) 836-6460