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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

Few communities have scattered so far so recently, and few are more in need of a channel of their own. That channel is now a browser tab.

  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. Anchor the evening for North America, repeat for Europe, and let music hold the overnight.

  3. Put Nastaliq on screen properly

    Titles, lower thirds and tickers render right-to-left with your own fonts uploaded on higher plans, so the channel reads like Afghan television from the first frame.

  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 is the heart, cricket is the crowd, and the community programming is what makes it home.

Music

Attan, rubab and the wedding stage

Afghan music culture is the channel’s deepest well: classic recordings, live sessions with artists on tour, attan for the celebrations and ghazal for the evenings. Music carries the overnight and gives the channel its sound.

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. The fixture is appointment television; schedule the replay before the crowd goes home.

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, covered live from the venue with one encoder and replayed through the week. The days the whole community turns the channel on at once.

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 unlimited viewers. Run it as a FAST or linear channel and it goes on air minutes after the first file lands.

Two languages are a schedule, not a problem

Afghan audiences live in Dari and Pashto, often in the same household, and a channel that serves both does it with the grid rather than with compromise: each show in its own language, labelled in the guide, with music and cricket belonging to everyone. Right-to-left rendering and custom fonts keep the script correct on screen in both.

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, delivery-confirmed ad counts make the channel a real advertising buy.

Masjid channels and match days

A channel built primarily around the masjid runs on the same engine with the prayer calendar driving the grid, 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 run on this same engine, with 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, with unlimited viewers and worldwide delivery included. No contract, cancel anytime, and a 7-day money-back guarantee on the first purchase. A single community advertiser, a travel agency or a remittance service, typically covers the month.

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. On-screen graphics support right-to-left and multi-script text, so Dari and Pashto titles, lower thirds and tickers render correctly, and higher plans add custom font upload so the channel can carry proper Nastaliq rather than a system fallback.

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. A weekly grid with recurring blocks turns that into a channel with a rhythm.

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. Live sport is the fastest audience-builder an Afghan channel has.

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

Yes. Delivery runs from 300+ cities, so Fremont, Sacramento, Toronto, Hamburg and London each stream from a nearby city. One grid serves them all: anchor the evening block for North America, repeat it for Europe, and let music carry the overnight. The analytics map shows which cities actually watch.

Can we run religious programming alongside general content?

Yes. Tilawat and religious talks take their slots, the devotional grid deepens around the Eids, Hijri date and daily adhan graphics, generated automatically for your city, are arriving shortly. Channels built primarily around the masjid run on the same engine, with the prayer calendar driving the grid.

How does an Afghan channel make money?

The community’s businesses want to reach it and have almost nowhere else to advertise: remittance services, travel agencies, halal grocers, wedding halls, immigration practices and real-estate agents. Server-side ad insertion is included on every plan: bring your own advertisers, keep 100% of the revenue, and pay a flat $1 per 1,000 delivery-confirmed impressions. Sponsor graphics and house ads cost nothing.

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