Asianet Channel
Asianet Channel Contact Number
Availability Satellite (India) Channel 201 (SD) Channel 854 (HD) (India) Channel 826 (SD) Channel 827 (HD) (India) Channel 1810(SD) Channel 1809 (HD) (India) Channel 761 (SD) (India) Channel 603 (SD) Channel 991 (HD) (India) Channel 1902 (SD) Channel 1901(HD) ( and ) Channel 289 Cable (India) Channel 104 (SD) Channel 802 (HD) (India) Channel 006 (SD) Channel 652 (HD) () Channel 139 (India) Channel 197 (India) Channel 601 Asianet, is an Indian general channel broadcasting in. Headquartered in,, the channel is part of owned. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • History and Beginning of Asianet [ ] At a time when the only Malayalam-language television channel available was owned by Star India Pvt Ltd. The channel had hired a transponder on the Russian satellite, with an uplink from Dubna in the erstwhile Soviet Union. Later, the company hired a transponder on the Rimsat satellite, and shifted the uplink to Pinugay and later to in the. Initially, the Malayalam transmission was only three hours per day with the rest of the time showing selective programs from Australian Broadcasting Corporation and CNBC. Later this was gradually increased to 12 hours per day by the end of 1994 and later to round the clock broadcasting.