ImaginAsian

Infobox Network
name = iaTV

country = United States
network_type = Broadcast television network
available = National (but not available in all markets)
owner =
key_people =
launch_date = 2004
past_names =
website = [http://www.iatv.tv/ iatv.tv] |

ImaginAsian Entertainment is a multi-media company based out of New York City. Its main feature is a television network, iaTV, which premiered in 2004 and which focuses on entertainment featuring people of East Asian and South East Asian descent. There is also some South Asian content. iaTVaims to be the Asian American equivalent of MTV or BET. The channel competed in certain markets with AZN Television until April 2008, when the competing network ceased broadcasting. It is not yet available in many American television markets.

They also operate The ImaginAsian, a renovated movie theater located in Midtown Manhattan that shows only first-run and classic Asian films, as well as several film festivals per year. The company renovated a second former movie theater in Los Angeles that opened in December 2007, the former Linda Lea Theater, which originally showed Japanese films and served the Little Tokyo area before shuttering in the 1980's.

iaLink, ImaginAsian Entertainment's monthly e-zine, has over 8 million subscribers. The resident fitness guru for ialink is Amazin Lethi - the first Vietnamese born and Asian bodybuilder to have successfully crossed over into the entertainment industry on a global scale.

List of corporate affiliates

*ImaginAsian Entertainment (IAEI) is the corporate parent
*iaTV is the television network
*ImaginAsian Radio (iaRadio) is a streaming online radio
*iaLink is an online e-zine
*The ImaginAsian Theater, a movie theater in New York City
*ImaginAsian Pictures is for the creation, distribution, and promotion of films
*ImaginAsian Home Entertainment is the DVD and home video division
*The ImaginAsian Center is the film/event theatre in the Gallery Row area of Los Angeles, California, which opened on December 1, 2007.

hows aired on ImaganAsian

Television Programs

*"Asian Charlie's Angels" *"All About Eve" *"Bare Beauty" *"Comedy Zen" *"Couple in Trouble" *"Explore Asia" *"Extreme Gourmet" *"Full House" *"Finding My America" *"High Fly" *"It Started With a Kiss" *"Jo Jo New York" *"Kikay Machine"

*"The Lounge" *"Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show" *"Movies for the ImaginAsian" *"Pacific Fusion" *"" *"Party Guide for an Urbanite" *"The Phoenix (2004 TV series)" *"Princess Hours" *"Sidestitch" *"Sunflower" *"Tracking Your X-Boyfriend" *"Uncle Morty's Dub Shack" *"Valley of Love" *"White Blouse" *"Winter Sonata"

Eastern Animation

Japanese (Anime)

*"" *"Cat's Eye" *"Elemental Gelade" *"" *"Gravitation" *"Hikaru no Go" *"Human Crossing" *"Kamichu" *"Kyo Kara Maoh!"

*"The Law of Ueki" *"Niea 7" *"" *"Super Dimensional Century Orguss" *"Paradise Kiss" *"" *"Twelve Kingdoms" *"King of Bandit Jing" *"Kino's Journey"

Korean

*"Guardian Fairy Michel" *""

*"Restol SRS" *"Spheres (TV series)"

Corporate Executives

List of over-the-air TV channels and cable providers

Cable/Satellite Providers

* New York, New York - Time Warner Cable Channel 560
* Los Angeles, California - Time Warner Cable Channel 157
**Charter Communications Channel 143
**Champion Broadband Channel 196 (Arcadia, Monrovia & Pasadena)
* San Francisco, California - Comcast Channel 28
* Princeton, New Jersey - Patriot Media Channel 149
* Houston, Texas - Comcast Channel 241
**TVMax Channel 109
**Fision Channel 349
* Dallas, Texas - Time Warner Cable Channel 342
* Fairfax County, Virginia - Cox Communications Channel 465
* Hawaii - Oceanic Time Warner Cable Channel 546

Broadcast Television Stations

* Edison, New Jersey - WDVB-CA (Formerly W36AS) Channel 39 (Middlesex, Monmouth, Essex & Union Counties)

ee also

* List of United States over-the-air television networks

External links

* [http://www.iatv.tv/ Official Site]
* [http://www.tmsanimeclassics.com/orguss.htm/ TMS Anime Classics on DVD]
* [http://www.iaei.tv Corporate Site]
* [http://www.theimaginasian.com ImaginAsian theater]
* [http://www.imaginasianradio.com ImaginAsian radio]
* [http://www.imaginasianradio.com/iaradio.xml?format=pcast iaRadio podcast]
* [http://feeds.feedburner.com/ImaginasianRadio?format=pcast Feedburner podcast]
* [http://www.ialink.tv iaLink e-zine]