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IRANIAN TELEVISION

Start an Iranian TV channel, Persian television beyond the dish era.

A 24/7 channel with music and poetry on a schedule, cooking in the afternoons, Nowruz and Yalda live, and Persian rendered properly on screen. From Westwood to Stockholm, delivered from 330+ cities.

Step by step

How to start an Iranian TV channel

Persian broadcasting abroad has a longer history than almost any diaspora television. The next chapter of it is streaming, and it starts in a browser tab.

  1. Build the library from culture you can license

    Music archives, live sessions, poetry evenings, cooking shows and films from independent distributors you can actually reach go into the library, tagged by series so the guide reads like listings.

  2. Grid the week across the diaspora’s clocks

    One schedule serves Los Angeles, Toronto, London and Stockholm. Anchor the evening talk and music blocks for North America, repeat for Europe, and let the classical archive carry the overnight.

  3. Put Persian on screen properly

    Titles, lower thirds and tickers render right-to-left with your own fonts uploaded on higher plans. English subtitles on higher plans keep the second generation, and the neighbours, watching.

  4. Own the calendar

    Nowruz, Yalda, Charshanbe Suri and Mehregan are the nights everyone tunes in. Build the seasonal grids ahead, broadcast the gatherings live from one encoder, and let the replays carry the week after.

The broadcast week

What runs on a Persian channel.

Music is the anchor, poetry is the depth, and the calendar is when everyone watches at once.

Music

From the classical archive to pop

Persian music is the deepest well in diaspora television: the classical repertoire, the LA-era pop canon, live sessions with artists on tour. Music anchors the day and carries the overnight with dignity.

Poetry & ideas

A literature on television

Hafez and Rumi readings, literary talk shows, and the poetry programming Persian audiences genuinely watch. With English subtitles on higher plans, it becomes culture the whole city can tune into.

Food & lifestyle

The sofreh, televised

Cooking shows are the most bankable format in diaspora TV: beloved by the audience, safe for every advertiser, and endlessly rewatchable. Tea, tahdig and a host the community trusts.

The calendar

Nowruz, Yalda and the nights everyone watches

The tahvil countdown, haft-sin specials, Yalda’s longest night, Charshanbe Suri and Sizdah Bedar, covered live and replayed through the week. Seasonal grids built ahead and switched in with the calendar.

The details

What it takes, in practice

Starting an Iranian TV channel takes a rights-clean library, a weekly grid built in a browser, and an encoder for everything live. Playout, graphics, the programme guide and worldwide delivery run in the cloud on the Cloud Playout plans, from $254 per month with unlimited viewers. It is the Persian-language shape of a FAST or linear channel, and a channel with content ready can be on air the same day.

The satellite generation and the streaming one

Persian television abroad built a real broadcast tradition, studios, schedules and audiences, in the satellite era. The audience it built is now on smart TVs and phones, and the generation after it never owned a dish. A streaming channel carries the tradition forward with the same grammar, a schedule, a guide, broadcast graphics, at a fraction of the cost, and with the city-level map showing exactly where the audience lives, from Westwood to North York to Stockholm.

Subtitles turn heritage into reach

Automatic subtitles on higher plans, and translate-and-dub on the Studio plan, quietly solve diaspora television’s oldest problem: the grandchildren. The channel broadcasts in Persian, the second generation reads it in English, and the poetry evening or the Nowruz special becomes something a mixed household, or a curious neighbour, watches together. Reach stops being capped by the language.

Related guides

Sibling guides cover Afghan, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Bangla, Tamil and Punjabi channels, and the same engine runs them all.

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Questions

Iranian channels, answered.

How much does it cost to start an Iranian 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. One advertiser from the community’s deep business ecosystem, a realtor, a jeweller, a travel agency, typically covers the month.

Does the channel render Persian script properly?

Yes. On-screen graphics support right-to-left and multi-script text, so Persian 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.

Persian TV has broadcast from Los Angeles for decades. Why streaming now?

That satellite tradition proved the appetite; streaming is where its audience went. A streaming channel plays in the web player, casts to the smart TV via Chromecast and AirPlay, reaches the second generation that never tuned a dish, and costs a fraction of a transponder. The programme guide, the schedule and the broadcast graphics all carry over; the distribution modernizes.

What fills a 24/7 Persian channel?

Music first, classical and pop, live sessions and archive performances. Then talk and community programming, poetry and literature shows, cooking and lifestyle, licensed films and serials where you hold rights (independent Iranian cinema distributors are often reachable directly), and the calendar: Nowruz, Yalda, Charshanbe Suri, Mehregan. A weekly grid with recurring blocks gives it the rhythm of real television.

What happens to the schedule at Nowruz?

Nowruz is the season the whole audience watches at once: the countdown to the moment of tahvil, the haft-sin specials, the Sizdah Bedar picnics. Seasonal grids are built ahead in the browser and switched in with the calendar, and Yalda night gets the same treatment in December: poetry, pomegranates and the longest night, live.

Can AI subtitles widen the audience beyond Persian speakers?

Yes, and for this community it matters twice. Automatic subtitles are available on higher plans, and the Studio plan can translate and dub, so the grandparents watch in Persian while the grandchildren read English, and the channel becomes watchable far beyond the diaspora itself. A poetry evening or a Nowruz special with English subtitles is culture the whole city can tune into.

Our audience is in LA, Toronto, London and Northern Europe. Does one channel work?

Yes. Delivery runs from 330+ cities, so Westwood, North York, London, Hamburg and Stockholm each stream from a nearby edge. 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, hour by hour.

How does an Iranian channel make money?

The Persian diaspora runs one of the strongest community business ecosystems anywhere: real estate, law and immigration practices, jewellers, medical and dental clinics, travel agencies, restaurants. They advertise where the community watches. 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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