The American Forces Network (AFN) is a government television and radio broadcast service the U.S. military provides to those stationed or assigned overseas. Headquartered at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, AFN's broadcast operations, which include global radio and television satellite feeds, emanate from the AFN Broadcast Center/Defense Media Center in Riverside, California. AFN was founded on 26 May 1942, in London as the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS).
Tehrangeles is a portmanteau deriving from the combination of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Los Angeles. A Persian community developed in Westwood, Los Angeles after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 prompted thousands of Iranians to flee to the United States. It is a shopping, eating and gathering place for the large number of Iranian-Americans and their descendants residing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area which is the largest such population outside Iran. The intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Wilkins Avenue was recognized by the City of Los Angeles as Persian Square.
Omid Djalili is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is bilingual in English and Persian.
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in clear (unencrypted) form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription, other ongoing cost, or one-off fee. In the traditional sense, this is carried on terrestrial radio signals and received with an antenna.
Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. (Mediacorp) is a Singaporean mass media conglomerate that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television in the country. As a media and entertainment group, it holds interests in radio broadcasting, television broadcasting and digital content creation.
KMEX-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 34, is the West Coast flagship station of the Spanish-language Univision television network, licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States. Owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of TelevisaUnivision USA, it is part of a duopoly with Ontario-licensed UniMás station KFTR-DT. Both stations share studios on Center Drive in Westchester, while KMEX-DT's transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.
"Greater Grand Forks" is the name used by some people to designate the twin cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, together with their surrounding areas. The two cities lie directly across from each other on both sides of the Red River of the North, but Grand Forks, with a population of 52,838, is more than five times larger than East Grand Forks, with a population of 8,601. The metropolitan area includes all of the related two counties in the two states: Grand Forks County in North Dakota and Polk County in Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 98,461, and in 2020 estimates placed the total population at 100,381.
Omid R. Kordestani is an Iranian-American businessman who is a member of the board at Twitter and was previously the Executive Chairman at Twitter from October 2015 to June 2020. He was a Senior Vice President, the Chief Business Officer, and most recently a special advisor to the CEO and founders at Google from July 2014 to October 2015 and was a director of Vodafone from March 2013 to October 2014. Kordestani had also previously been at Google from May 1999 to April 2009, reaching the position of Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations.
Omid Abtahi is an Iranian-American actor. He is best known for his roles as Salim in Starz Original American Gods, Doctor Pershing in The Mandalorian on Disney+, Saleem Ulman in NCIS on Paramount+, and Homes in the final installment of The Hunger Games film series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.
KAAH-TV, virtual channel 26, is a Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) owned-and-operated television station licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, and serving the Hawaiian Islands. The station's studios are located on Smith Street in downtown Honolulu, and its transmitter is located on Palehua Ridge, north of Makakilo.
Iran TV Network (ITN) was a Canadian exempt Category B Persian language specialty channel. It was wholly owned by Ethnic Channels Group with its name and programming used under license from the American-based TV channel Iran TV Network.
LAT TV was a Spanish-language television network emphasizing family-oriented and educational programming. It was owned by Latin America Broadcasting of Houston, Texas and launched in May 2006, initially on five low-power television stations in Texas and Arizona, four of which were in top-ten Hispanic markets. The network folded in May 2008.
Animax is an Asian pay television channel which broadcasts Japanese language anime and Simulcast anime, anime programming through English-language feeds in Southeast Asia South Asia, East Asia, and Middle East. It is the first television channel in Asia dedicated to anime, and was initially launched in Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia in January 2004,
Fusion TV was an American pay television news and satire channel owned by Fusion Media Group, a multi-platform media company subsidiary of Univision Communications, which relied in part on the resources of its parent company's news division, Noticias Univision. In addition to conventional television distribution, Fusion was streamed online and on mobile platforms to subscribers of participating cable and satellite providers.
Television was first introduced to Iran in 1958, as a privately owned and commercially operated enterprise, before being nationalised, remaining a state-controlled monopoly, first of National Iranian Radio and Television, and following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
Al Jazeera is a Qatari government-funded international Arabic-language news channel based in Doha, capital of Qatar, and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera Media Network. The flagship of the network, its station identification, is Al Jazeera.
Tehran Von Ghasri, or simply Tehran Ghasri, professionally known as Tehran formerly Tehran SoParvaz, is an American international comedian, actor, host, television and radio personality, entertainer of African-American and Persian descent. Tehran was brought up in Washington D.C. where he started his career. Multilingual performing comedy in Persian and English.
