ImaginAsian
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| ImaginAsian TV | |
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| Type | Broadcast television network |
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| Availability | National (but not available in all markets) |
| Launch date | 2004 |
| Website | iatv.tv |
ImaginAsian Entertainment is a multi-media company based out of New York City. Its main feature is a television network, ImaginAsian TV, that 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. ImaginAsian TV (iaTV) aims to be the Asian American equivalent of MTV or BET. The channel competes in certain markets with AZN Television. 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 is currently renovating a second former movie theater in Los Angeles for opening in Fall 2007, the former Linda Lea Theater, that 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.
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- ImaginAsian Entertainment (IAEI) is the corporate parent
- ImaginAsian TV (iaTV) is the television network
- ImaginAsian Radio (iaRadio) is streaming online radio
- iaLink is an online e-zine
- The ImaginAsian Theater, a movie theater in New York City
- ImaginAsian Pictures is for the creadtion, distribution, and promotion of films
- ImaginAsian Home Entertainment is the DVD and home video division
- The ImaginAsian Center is a film/event theatre in the Gallery Row area of Los Angeles, California, scheduled to open in Fall 2007.
- 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
- Dallas, Texas - Time Warner Cable Channel 342
- Fairfax County, Virginia - Cox Communications Channel 465
- Hawaii - Oceanic Time Warner Cable Channel 546
- Edison, New Jersey - WDVB-CA (Formerly W36AS) Channel 39 (Middlesex, Monmouth, Essex & Union Counties)
- Official Site
- TMS Anime Classics on DVD
- Corporate Site
- ImaginAsian theater
- ImaginAsian radio
- iaRadio podcast
- Feedburner podcast
- iaLink e-zine
