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AFGHAN TELEVISION

Start an Afghan TV channel, for the newest diaspora.

A 24/7 channel in Dari and Pashto: music through the night, cricket live from the ground, Nawroz and the Eids covered, and Nastaliq rendered properly on screen. Delivered from 300+ cities, live in minutes.

Step by step

How to start an Afghan TV channel

Much of the community arrived recently and is spread from California to Germany. A channel in Dari and Pashto starts with footage it already has.

  1. Gather what the community already records

    Wedding-stage performances, concert recordings, poetry evenings, tournament footage and your own productions go into the library. Two tags, language and series, are enough for the guide to list the week properly.

  2. Grid the week in two languages

    Dari and Pashto share one schedule: the talk show in one, music blocks in both, cricket in whichever the commentator speaks. Label each slot by language in the guide, so a Pashto speaker can find tonight’s Pashto hour.

  3. Put Nastaliq on screen properly

    Titles, lower thirds and tickers run right to left in Dari and Pashto, with your own fonts uploaded on higher plans.

  4. Take the camera to the ground

    Local cricket, Nawroz gatherings, concerts and community events go out live from one encoder over RTMP or SRT, and the replays fill the weekend grid.

The broadcast week

What runs on an Afghan channel.

Music and cricket belong to both language audiences. Talk shows take turns.

Music

Attan, rubab and the wedding stage

Classic recordings, live sessions with artists on tour, attan for the celebrations and ghazal for the evenings. Music is the part of the schedule Dari and Pashto speakers share, and it carries the overnight.

Cricket

The matches everyone watches

Nothing gathers the community like cricket. Local tournaments live from the ground, watch-along commentary in Dari or Pashto, and highlights where rights allow. Schedule the replay for the evening, when the other half of the diaspora is awake.

Community

Two languages, one audience

Talk shows and community affairs in Dari and Pashto, coverage of the events the community actually attends, and the practical programming, immigration, settlement, small business, that new arrivals need and rarely find.

The calendar

Nawroz and the Eids

Nawroz gatherings, both Eids and graduation seasons go out live from the venue on one encoder. Nawroz falls on the spring equinox, so build that week’s grid ahead.

The details

What it takes, in practice

An Afghan channel starts from footage the community already shoots: the wedding stages, the tournaments, the poetry evenings. Put that in a library you have rights to, build the week in a browser, and keep one encoder ready for anything live. The broadcast side is not yours to run, since playout, graphics, the programme guide and worldwide delivery all sit in the cloud on the Cloud Playout plans from $254 per month with delivery included. Run it as a FAST (free, ad-supported) or linear channel and it goes on air minutes after the first file lands.

Dari and Pashto on one schedule

Afghan audiences live in Dari and Pashto, often in the same household. Each show goes out in its own language and is labelled that way in the guide, while music and cricket belong to everyone. Right-to-left rendering and custom fonts keep both scripts correct on screen.

A phone-first audience is a delivery question

Much of the community arrived recently, and much of it watches on phones before it watches on televisions. Delivery is unlimited on every plan from 300+ cities, the channel plays in a web player and casts to the TV as households settle, and the city-level map shows the audience taking shape, Fremont to Hamburg. For the remittance services, travel agencies and wedding halls that serve this community, counts of ads actually delivered make the channel a real advertising buy.

Masjid channels and match days

A channel built mainly around the masjid sets its day by prayer times, so start from Islamic television instead. If cricket is the centre of the schedule, the match-day setup is the same one clubs use. Iranian, Urdu, Arabic, Hindi, Bangla, Tamil and Punjabi channels use the same grid, guide and graphics.

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Questions

Afghan channels, answered.

How much does it cost to start an Afghan TV channel?

Plans start at $254 per month billed yearly, per channel. That covers delivery anywhere, Fremont to Hamburg, with no contract and a 7-day money-back guarantee on the first purchase. Travel agencies and remittance services that serve the community are the natural first advertisers.

Can one channel broadcast in both Dari and Pashto?

Yes, and that is how most Afghan channels work. The schedule is one grid with room for both: a Dari talk show in one slot, Pashto music in the next, cricket commentary in whichever language the commentator brings. The programme guide labels each show, so viewers know what airs when, in which language. AI subtitles on higher plans bridge the rest: the Dari talk show readable in English, and the second generation that answers in English kept in the room.

Does the channel render the script properly?

Yes. Dari and Pashto both run right to left, and the on-screen graphics handle that in titles, lower thirds and tickers. Pashto uses letters Dari does not, so on higher plans upload a font that covers both instead of relying on a system default.

What fills a 24/7 Afghan channel?

Music first: attan, rubab, ghazal and the wedding-stage performances the community already records. Then talk shows and community affairs, poetry programming, cooking and lifestyle shows, cricket matches and commentary, coverage of Nawroz and both Eids, and dramas where you hold rights.

Can we broadcast cricket?

Live rights to international cricket are sold by the boards and their agents, so check what is available for your territories before scheduling matches. What is always yours: local tournament coverage from one encoder at the ground, watch-along commentary shows, highlights you have agreements for, and the club cricket your own community plays.

Our community is in California, Toronto and Germany. Does one channel work?

Yes. Fremont, Sacramento, Toronto, Hamburg and London each get the stream from nearby, on a delivery network that spans 300+ cities. Hamburg is nine hours ahead of Fremont, so a talk show that airs at 8pm in Germany can repeat for the California evening. The analytics map shows which of those cities watch.

Can we run religious programming alongside general content?

Yes. Tilawat and religious talks take their own slots, and the grid can turn more devotional around the Eids. Hijri date and daily adhan graphics, generated automatically for your city, are arriving shortly. If the channel is mainly a masjid channel, let the prayer times shape the day instead.

How does an Afghan channel make money?

The community’s own businesses want to reach it: remittance services, travel agencies, halal grocers, wedding halls, immigration practices and real-estate agents. Every plan includes server-side ad insertion, which places their ads into the stream itself. You sell the breaks, keep 100% of the revenue, and pay a flat $1 per 1,000 ads confirmed as delivered. Sponsor graphics and house ads cost nothing.

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