In November 2004, Ethnic Channels Group was granted approval from the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called
Persian/Iranian TV, described as
"a national ethnic Category 2 specialty programming undertaking devoted to providing programming primarily to the Persian-, Azeri-, Kurdish-, Armenian- and Assyrian-speaking communities." The channel was launched in early 2006 as
Iran TV Network (ITN) and featured programming from US-based channel, Iran TV Network. In early 2010, the channel was renamed Jaam-e-Jam and began featuring programming from Jaam-e-Jam International in Iran. In May 2015, the channel was renamed 'Iran TV Network' once again due to loss of programming from Jaam-e-Jam. On August 30, 2013, the CRTC approved Ethnic Channels Group's request to convert Jaam-e-Jam from a licensed
Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat. B third language service. In 2020, both
Bell Fibe TV and
Telus TV, the only providers that carried the channel, dropped it from their line-ups, rendering the channel no longer available. It continues to broadcast on
satellite and is available throughout North America as well as parts of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Asia. ==References==