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ImaginAsian Entertainment is a multi-media company based in New York City. Its main feature is a television network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...

, iaTV, which premiered in 2004 and which focuses on entertainment featuring people of East Asian and South East Asian descent. There is also some South Asian content. The channel competed in certain markets with AZN Television
AZN Television
AZN Television promoted itself as "the network for Asian America". It was run by International Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. The channel’s programming targeted the fast-growing, young, affluent, English-speaking Asian American community...

 until April 2008, when the competing network ceased broadcasting. It is not yet available in many American television markets
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...

.

They also operated The ImaginAsian
The ImaginAsian
The ImaginAsian is a movie theater in midtown Manhattan, New York City, dedicated to exclusively showcasing Asian and Asian American films. Located on 59th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, The ImaginAsian is owned by ImaginAsian Entertainment, which also operates ImaginAsian TV , ImaginAsian...

, a renovated movie theater
Movie theater
A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....

 located in Midtown Manhattan that shows only first-run and classic Asian films, as well as several film festivals per year. The company renovated a second former movie theater in Los Angeles that opened in December 2007, the former Linda Lea Theater, which originally showed Japanese films and served the Little Tokyo area before shuttering in the 1980s.

In addition, past divisions of the company consisted of iaLink, ImaginAsian Entertainment's monthly e-zine, which at one point had over 10 million subscribers, ImaginAsian Pictures and Home Entertainment, a film and DVD distribution division that released several DVDs of Asian films and iaTV original shows, and the successful theatrical and DVD release of the Vietnamese American film Journey From The Fall
Journey from the Fall
Journey from the Fall is a 2006 independent film by writer/director/editor Ham Tran, about the Vietnamese reeducation camp and boat people experience following the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. This drama was released on March 23, 2007, by ImaginAsian to sold-out screenings...

, and iaRadio, a block of radio programming both streamed online as well as made available on certain terrestrial stations.

Current status

As of late 2009, the company has undergone internal changes. Offices in New York were closed and operations were transitioned to Los Angeles under a new team. The television network currently airs its library content while programming, website, and relaunch preparations continue. Both theaters have closed, with the New York City location being operated by Phoenix Theatres, and the LA location being operated by the property owners as the Downtown Independent.

List of corporate affiliates

  • ImaginAsian Entertainment (IAEI) is the corporate parent
  • ImaginAsianTV (iaTV) is the television network
  • ImaginAsian Radio (iaRadio) is a streaming online radio
  • iaLink is an online e-zine
  • The ImaginAsian Theater
    The ImaginAsian
    The ImaginAsian is a movie theater in midtown Manhattan, New York City, dedicated to exclusively showcasing Asian and Asian American films. Located on 59th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, The ImaginAsian is owned by ImaginAsian Entertainment, which also operates ImaginAsian TV , ImaginAsian...

    , a movie theater in New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

     which is now owned by Phoenix Theatres
  • ImaginAsian Pictures
    ImaginAsian Pictures
    ImaginAsian Pictures is an Asian/Asian-American film distribution arm of ImaginAsian Entertainment....

    is for the creation, distribution, and promotion of films
  • ImaginAsian Home Entertainment is the DVD and home video division
  • The ImaginAsian Center
    The ImaginAsian Center
    The Downtown Independent is a theater and cinema located in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. It is operated by the Downtown Independent and owned by Orange County, California's Cinema Properties Group...

    is the film/event theatre in the Gallery Row area of Los Angeles, California, which opened on December 1, 2007. The Los Angeles center seems to have stopped operations in October 2008, though its web site (http://www.theimaginasian.com/la/) is still up.

Television programs

  • Asian Charlie's Angels
    Asian Charlie's Angels
    Asian Charlie's Angels is a Taiwanese version of the successful 1970s American television show, filmed in Mandarin. Produced in 2004 and airing on ImaginAsian in the United States, the show stars Annie Wu as Annabelle, Kelly Lin as Cindy and Qu Ying as Betty. Christy Chung also appears in the film...

  • All About Eve
    All About Eve (Korean TV series)
    All About Eve or 이브의 모든것 in Korean is a South Korean television drama which was aired in 2000 on MBC that focused on two beautiful, young TV news reporters competing for the top position at the network they work for.-Plot:Sun Mi is a lovely college student who lives with her middle class widowed...

  • Bare Beauty
  • Comedy Zen
  • Couple in Trouble
  • Explore Asia
  • Extreme Gourmet
    Extreme Gourmet
    Extreme Gourmet is a television show broadcast in Singapore by MediaCorp. It is rebroadcast in the United States by ImaginAsian TV. The show features people travelling around China eating adventurous foods. It is hosted by Lum May Yee, and features different guests each episode....

  • Full House
    Full House (Korean drama)
    Full House is a 16-episode South Korean television drama series broadcast by KBS in 2004. It based on the manhwa of the same name by Woon Soo-yoon....

  • Finding My America
  • High Fly
  • It Started With a Kiss (TV series)
    It Started with a Kiss (TV series)
    It Started with a Kiss is a Taiwanese drama starring Joe Cheng, Ariel Lin and Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit. It was based on the first 10 volumes of the Japanese manga series Itazura na Kiss written by Kaoru Tada...

  • Jo Jo New York
  • Kikay Machine

  • The Lounge
  • Movies for the ImaginAsian
    Movies for the ImaginAsian
    Movies for the ImaginAsian is a show on the ImaginAsian television network showcasing East Asian and South Asian films. Its hosts until recently were Jackson Loo and Pooja Kumar. Miss Kumar left the show in 2005 to pursue an acting career....

  • Pacific Fusion
  • Pancrase: Legends of Mixed Martial Arts
  • Party Guide for an Urbanite
  • Parental Guidance (TV series)
    Parental Guidance (TV series)
    Parental Guidance is a Singaporean drama produced by local TV station MediaCorp and airs on MediaCorp Channel 5 on Thursdays at 8.30pm starting on 8 February 2007 to 3 May 2007 for a total of 13 episodes.- Cast :- Season One :-Season 2:...

  • The Phoenix (2004 TV series)
  • Princess Hours
    Princess Hours
    Princess Hours is a 2006 Korean drama starring Yoon Eun Hye, Joo Ji Hoon, Kim Jeong Hoon and Song Ji-hyo. It was based on manhwa Goong by Park So-Hee. It was broadcast from 11 January to 30 March 2006 on MBC.Princess Hours was one of MBC's most popular dramas of 2006, second only to Jumong...

  • Sidestitch
  • Sunflower
    Sunflower
    Sunflower is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence . The sunflower got its name from its huge, fiery blooms, whose shape and image is often used to depict the sun. The sunflower has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves and circular heads...

  • Soulmate
  • The Great Horror Family
    The Great Horror Family
    was a 2004 Japanese horror comedy television series directed by Kenji Murakami, Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima and Yūdai Yamaguchi, which aired on TV Tokyo affiliated stations.- Episodes :...

  • Tracking Your X-Boyfriend
  • Uncle Morty's Dub Shack
    Uncle Morty's Dub Shack
    Uncle Morty's Dub Shack was a television series produced by the cable network ImaginAsian TV from 2004 through 2006. Written, directed by and starring Trevor Moore and James Matison and also starring John Chou, Aladdin Ullah and Patrick T. McGowan, the show ran for two seasons, though there is...

  • Valley of Love
  • White Blouse
  • Winter Sonata
    Winter Sonata
    Winter Sonata is a South Korean television drama series broadcast by KBS in 2002. It is the second part of the Endless Love installment directed by Yoon Seok-Ho...



Japanese (Anime)

  • Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales
    Ayakashi
    is a Japanese animated horror anthology television series produced by Toei Animation.The series is made up of three stories: "Yotsuya Ghost Story", an adaptation of the classic Japanese ghost story; "Goddess of the Dark Tower", based on the play by Kyōka Izumi; and Goblin Cat, an original story by...

  • Black God: The Animation
    Black God (manga)
    is a Japanese-Korean manga series written by Dall-Young Lim and illustrated by Sung-Woo Park. Square Enix publishes the manga in Japan's bi-monthly seinen magazine Young Gangan. The story is initially set in modern day Tokyo, then changes to the island of Okinawa in the middle of the story. The...

  • Cat's Eye
    Cat's Eye (anime)
    is a comic written and drawn by Tsukasa Hojo. The comic was made into a televised animated series originally broadcast in 1983 on NTV. Cat's Eye has also aired in a number of countries outside Japan, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Philippines, and China...

  • Elemental Gelade
    Elemental Gelade
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mayumi Azuma. The fantasy adventure is a tale of a group of five who are on a journey to Edel Garden, the birthplace of mystical beings called Edel Raids who are described as "living weapons"....

  • Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
    Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
    is an anime series loosely based on Alexandre Dumas, père's classic French novel, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Spanning 24 episodes, it was produced by Gonzo, directed by Mahiro Maeda and broadcast by Animax across its respective networks in Japan, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America,...

  • Gravitation
    Gravitation (manga)
    is a shōnen-ai manga series written by Maki Murakami.The story follows the attempts of Shuichi Shindo and his band, Bad Luck, to become Japan's next musical sensation and his struggles to capture Yuki's heart...

  • Hikaru no Go
    Hikaru no Go
    is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...

  • Human Crossing
    Human Crossing
    , is a Japanese manga written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane. The manga is about a series of unrelated stories of people's life and their lessons in life...

  • Initial D
    Initial D
    is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno which has been serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine since 1995. It has been adapted into a long-running anime series by OB Planning, Studio Comet, Studio Gallop, Pastel, and A.C.G.T, and a live action film by Avex and Media Asia...

  • Kamichu
    Kamichu
    is a Japanese anime television series, strongly influenced by the Shinto religion, that follows the adventures of teenage goddess Yurie Hitotsubashi and her friends. The title is short for . The series was created by , which is the joint pen name of Tomonori Ochikoshi, Koji Masunari, and Hideyuki...

  • Kiba
    Kiba (anime)
    , a fantasy anime by Madhouse, began broadcasting on TV Tokyo on April 5, 2006. The series is directed by Hiroshi Kōjina with Upper Deck Japan, a trading card game company, as the main sponsor...

  • Kino's Journey
    Kino's Journey
    , shortened to Kino's Journey, is a Japanese light novel series written by Keiichi Sigsawa, with illustrations by Kouhaku Kuroboshi. The series originally started serialization in volume five of MediaWorks' now-defunct light novel magazine Dengeki hp on March 17, 2000...

  • King of Bandit Jing
    King of Bandit Jing
    , also known as King of Bandit Jing, is a seven volume manga series by Yuichi Kumakura about the adventures of the bandit Jing and his partner Kir. The manga was adapted into a 13 episode anime series produced by Aniplex and directed by Hiroshi Watanabe as well as a Game Boy game released in 2000...

  • Kyo Kara Maoh!
    Kyo Kara Maoh!
    , is a series of Japanese light novels written by Tomo Takabayashi and illustrated by Temari Matsumoto. The first light novel was published in 2000 by Kadokawa Shoten and to date 22 novels have been released...


  • The Law of Ueki
    The Law of Ueki
    is a Japanese manga series by Tsubasa Fukuchi. It was first serialised in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 2002 and ended in 2005. Sixteen tankōbon volumes was compiled and published by Shogakukan. An anime adaptation was first broadcast on TV Tokyo on April 4, 2005, ended with 51...

  • Mai hime
  • Niea 7
  • Nobody's Boy: Remi
  • Paradise Kiss
    Paradise Kiss
    , abbreviated to "ParaKiss", is a manga series written and illustrated by Ai Yazawa. It appeared as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine Zipper. Shodensha collected the chapters into five volumes...

  • Pani Poni Dash
  • Scrapped Princess
    Scrapped Princess
    is a Japanese light novel series by Ichiro Sakaki and illustrated by Nakayohi Mogudan, a popular adult dōjin artist. In 2003, it was adapted into an anime series produced by Bones...

  • Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars
    Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars
    is an anime series directed by Tatsuo Sato and mainly animated by Madhouse. Shingu aired from May 8, 2001 through December 4, 2001 on NHK. It ran for 26 episodes and was released on DVD on five volumes by The Right Stuf International in the United States....

  • Super Dimensional Century Orguss
  • Twelve Kingdoms
  • Wedding Peach
    Wedding Peach
    is a shōjo manga by Nao Yazawa and Sukehiro Tomita that was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Ciao magazine. In North America it is translated and published by VIZ Media in its entirety, comprising six volumes....



Korean

  • Guardian Fairy Michel
  • Hermos: The Green Chariot

  • Restol SRS
  • Spheres (TV series)


Cable/satellite providers

  • New York, New York - Time Warner Cable
    Time Warner Cable
    Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

     Channel 560
  • Hudson Valley, New York - Time Warner Cable
    Time Warner Cable
    Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

     Channel 560
  • Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

     - Time Warner Cable
    Time Warner Cable
    Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

     Channel 157
    • Charter Communications
      Charter Communications
      Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...

       Channel 143
    • Champion Broadband
      Champion Broadband
      Champion Broadband is a cable, Internet, and telephone provider in the United States. It operates in the Denver and Los Angeles markets. It also owns smaller systems in rural markets....

       Channel 196 (Arcadia, Monrovia and Pasadena)
  • San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California
    San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

     - Comcast
    Comcast
    Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...

     Channel 28
  • Princeton, New Jersey
    Princeton, New Jersey
    Princeton is a community located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It is best known as the location of Princeton University, which has been sited in the community since 1756...

     - Patriot Media Channel 149
  • Houston, Texas
    Houston, Texas
    Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

     - Comcast
    Comcast
    Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...

     Channel 241
    • TVMax
      TVMax
      TVMax is a commercial privately owned TV station in Panama City, Panama that is available all over the country, except the province of Colón. Its owned by Televisora Nacional, S.A that has an older TV station named TVN....

       Channel 109
    • Fision Channel 349
  • Dallas, Texas
    Dallas, Texas
    Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

     - Time Warner Cable
    Time Warner Cable
    Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

     Channel 342
  • Fairfax County, Virginia
    Fairfax County, Virginia
    Fairfax County is a county in Virginia, in the United States. Per the 2010 Census, the population of the county is 1,081,726, making it the most populous jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with 13.5% of Virginia's population...

     - Cox Communications
    Cox Communications
    Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...

     Channel 465
  • Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

     - Oceanic Time Warner Cable Channel 134

Broadcast television stations

  • Edison, New Jersey
    Edison, New Jersey
    Edison Township is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey. What is now Edison Township was originally incorporated as Raritan Township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1870, from portions of both Piscataway Township and Woodbridge Township...

     - WDVB-CA
    WDVB-CA
    WDVB-CA is a low-power television station officially licensed in Edison, NJ which mainly serves the New Jersey suburbs of New York City. Its Digital transmitter is located at the Empire State Building, and the station broadcasts in Analog over Channel 39 and in Digital over Channel 23.-History:This...

    (Formerly W36AS) Channel 39 (Middlesex, Monmouth, Essex and Union Counties)

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