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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 300+ cities.

Step by step

How to start an Iranian TV channel

Persian television has broadcast from Los Angeles for decades, on satellite. Its audience now watches on smart TVs and phones.

  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. Tag by series on the way in; retagging four hundred files later is nobody’s idea of a Saturday.

  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. Set Persian right to left

    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 fills most of the day. Poetry and cooking earn the evening slots, and Nowruz takes over the grid in March.

Music

From the classical archive to pop

Persian music gives a channel decades of material: the classical repertoire, the LA-era pop canon, live sessions with artists on tour. It anchors the day and fills the overnight.

Poetry & ideas

A literature on television

Hafez and Rumi readings, literary talk shows, and the poetry programming Persian audiences actually sit down for. With English subtitles on higher plans, a Hafez reading works for viewers who never learned to read Persian.

Food & lifestyle

The sofreh, televised

Cooking shows repeat well and sit comfortably next to any advertiser. 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

Persian television abroad used to need a studio and a transponder. It now needs a library you hold rights to, a weekly grid built in a browser, and an encoder for the live sessions and the tahvil countdown. Playout, graphics, the programme guide and worldwide delivery are handled in the cloud on the Cloud Playout plans, from $254 per month billed yearly with viewers never metered, and a FAST (free, ad-supported) or linear channel can be on air in minutes.

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, 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.

Afghan, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Bangla, Tamil and Punjabi channels use the same weekly grid and programme guide.

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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, a fraction of what a satellite transponder costs. Viewers are unlimited and delivery is worldwide. There is no contract, and the first purchase has a 7-day money-back guarantee.

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.

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. Build the Nowruz grid in the browser weeks ahead and switch it in on the day. 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 come on every plan, 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. Westwood, North York, London, Hamburg and Stockholm each stream from close by, with delivery from 300+ cities. The time gap is the real planning job: Stockholm is nine hours ahead of Los Angeles, so the Westwood evening show reaches Europe before dawn. Repeat it in the European evening, and check the analytics map, which shows each city hour by hour.

How does an Iranian channel make money?

Real estate, law and immigration practices, jewellers, medical and dental clinics, travel agencies and restaurants: the Persian diaspora’s own businesses advertise where the community watches. Server-side ad insertion is on every plan, so their spots play inside the channel itself. You keep 100% of the revenue and pay a flat $1 per 1,000 delivered impressions, with the first 25,000 each month included. Sponsor graphics and house ads cost nothing.

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