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Hamilton Spectator
2 days ago
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
ATN Increases Dividend 15% as Part of Disciplined Capital Allocation Strategy
BEVERLY, Mass., June 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ATN International, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATNI) announced that its Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend increase of 15% to $0.275 per share. The quarterly dividend will be payable on July 7, 2025, on all common shares outstanding to stockholders of record as of June 30, 2025. 'The Board's decision to increase the dividend at this time reflects our confidence in the company's financial strength and future cash flow generation,' said Brad Martin, ATN's Chief Executive Officer. 'As we move forward, we remain focused on monetizing the investments made during our recent three-year strategic capital spending cycle, supported by ongoing cost management and efficiency initiatives. These efforts reinforce our commitment to disciplined capital allocation and our confidence in delivering sustained long-term value to our shareholders.' About ATN ATN International, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATNI), headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, is a provider of digital infrastructure and communications services in the United States and internationally, including the Caribbean region, with a focus on rural and remote markets with a growing demand for infrastructure investments. The Company's operating subsidiaries today primarily provide: (i) advanced wireless and wireline connectivity to residential, business and government customers, including a range of high-speed Internet and data services, fixed and mobile wireless solutions, and video and voice services; and (ii) carrier and enterprise communications services, such as terrestrial and submarine fiber optic transport, and communications tower facilities. For more information, please visit . Source: ATN International, Inc.
The Journal
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Journal
The family-friendly wild bee festival run by two 'citizen scientists' in Co Dublin
IT'S SUMMERTIME, WHICH means it's festival season: we've seen festivals like AVA, Forbidden Fruit, ATN, and Beyond the Pale come and go. But today marks the beginning of a slightly different type of festival – the Skerries Annual Wild Bee Festival. Kicking off this evening with the screening of ' Plight of the Bumblebee ', a new documentary concerning the world of bees and their connection to Irish religion, folklore, and biodiversity, the festival will run until Sunday evening. This year marks the fourth occurrence of the festival, which began in 2022. Described as 'a family-friendly event with bee themed crafts and activities for children as well as educational events and lectures suited to serious nature lovers both amateurs and experts', it was originally put on by the National Biodiversity Data Centre (NBDC) in collaboration with Fingal County Council. After its first successful outing, however, the centre had to move on from Skerries to spread the message to other parts of the country. Charles and Marion Heasman, a retired couple involved with the NBDC who describe themselves as 'keen amateur naturalists and citizen scientists', decided that although the NBDC had to 'spread the love around the countryside', they wanted the festival to continue in Skerries. 'So we formed a group, and we've run the festival for the last three years, including this one, which is the fourth,' Charles told The Journal . The festival is run 'on a shoestring', but between small grants from the council and some local fundraising, the couple have been successful in making it free to attend – although this evening's screening requires the purchase of a ticket due to the cost to put the documentary on. Advertisement Charles Heasman Charles Heasman Both 2023 and 2024 were slightly less well-attended than it had been hoped due to inclement weather, but with a brighter forecast for this weekend, the Heasmans are hoping for a turnout of a couple of thousand people. 'When the NBDC organised the first one, it was fairly academically inclined for people that were already in the conservation field, as it were, and interested,' Charles said. 'We make our festival much more family friendly.' The couple described some of the activities aimed at children on offer, including face painting, fancy dress, arts and crafts, among others. Marion said that they hope that their festival allows people to become more engaged in the ongoing climate crisis – but also to provide a lighter view. 'A lot of people get anxious about climate change and biodiversity,' she said, 'and just having talks and being able to say, 'well, hold on a minute. We can all do something little to help – don't get too anxious'.' Charles Heasman Charles Heasman The weekend event, which is to be held at Skerries Mills, will feature activities for children, bird watching, talks from ecologists and botanists, walks around certain parts of the area to explore the local ecology, as well workshops. The local community garden, which the Heasmans are also involved in, is at the same site, which has 'lots of bees' – including a threatened species of bumblebee that those involved in the NBDC's work are trying to conserve. The Large Carder Bee located in the Skerries garden just prior to the festival in 2022 after efforts were made over a number of years to lure it in with the pollinator friendly garden. The NBDC has described Skerries as 'leading the way in demonstrating how a local community can work together and take action'. You can find out more about the festivities here . Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone... A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation. Learn More Support The Journal
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Business Standard
04-06-2025
- General
- Business Standard
Pakistan's Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called out by journalist at UN
Pakistan's former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was called out here by a journalist on his comments about alleged demonisation of Muslims in India. The former Pakistan foreign minister, who is leading a team of experts to inform the world about the recent conflict with India, was briefing the media about their perspective on Tuesday. During the question-answer session, Egyptian-American journalist Ahmad Fathi, UN correspondent of American Television News (ATN), asked Bilawal about his comments on India's treatment of Muslims and reminded him that it was an Indian Muslim military officer who was briefing the media during the conflict. Let me start with a statement you made today, saying that the recent terrorist attack in Kashmir is being used as a political tool to demonise Muslims in India. Sir, I have watched the briefings on both sides, and as far as I recall, there were Muslim Indian military officers who were conducting the briefing on the Indian side, Fathi said. He was about to ask his second question when Bilawal stopped him mid-sentence. The Pakistani leader then went on to criticise India and continued his usual rhetoric. Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after the Pahalgam terror attack, with India carrying out precision strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the early hours of May 7. Pakistan attempted to attack Indian military bases on May 8, 9, and 10. The Indian side strongly responded to the Pakistani attempts by inflicting heavy damage to a number of key Pakistani military installations, including air bases, air defence systems, command and control centres and radar sites. On May 10, the militaries of the two countries agreed on an understanding to end the hostilities. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Cision Canada
13-05-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
ATN expands largest channel lineup in Western Canada
TORONTO, May 13, 2025 /CNW/ - Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) (TSXV: SAT), Canada's largest South Asian broadcaster and pioneer broadcaster of cricket is proud to announce the expansion of its channel offerings on ROGERS (formerly Shaw) in Western Canada. Customers in Western Canada now will have access to an even broader range of premium South Asian content, further strengthening ATN's commitment to delivering culturally rich and diverse south Asian programming. The newly launched channels include a mix of general entertainment, movies, music, news, and spiritual programming in multiple South Asian languages such as Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, and Bengali. With this expansion, ATN now has increased the channel count from 12 to 54, reinforcing ATN's position as the largest South Asian broadcaster in North America and enhances accessibility to premium multicultural content for viewers across the country. "I am personally very grateful to the late great Mr. Ted Rogers who encouraged me to launch the first ever South Asian Canadian television series on ROGERS cable in Toronto. At that time ROGERS studio on Adelaide St. in Toronto had no colour cameras. To me he is an exceptional role model and an extraordinary visionary. Our strong association with ROGERS continued when they acquired CFMT channel 47, where we had developed the South Asian Programming. CFMT is now flourishing as Omni. Our congratulations to ROGERS for the bold and successful acquisition of Shaw Cable. We are thrilled to deepen our partnership with ROGERS and bring even more of ATN's award-winning and exclusive content, to a huge South Asian community in Western Canada" said Dr. Shan Chandrasekar, President & CEO of ATN. "This expansion reflects our ongoing mission to serve multicultural audiences with high-quality programming that reflects their languages, cultures, and values" he added. ATN's current 12 channels include ATN Star Plus, ATN Life, ATN Cricket Plus, CBN, ATN Punjabi, ATN PM One, ATN Food Food, ATN Sony, ATN SAB TV, ATN Colors, ATN News (Republic TV) and among the newly added channels in various categories are as follows: Hindi Language – ABP News, ATN &TV, ATN Aastha, ATN B4U Music, ATN B4U Plus, ATN Rishtey, ATN DD Bharati, ATN DD India, ATN DD News, ATN MAX2, ATN Movies (Star Gold), ATN SET MAX, ATN SONY PAL, ATN SONY YAY, ATN Sports, ATN Zoom & MTV India Punjabi Language – ATN Punjabi, ATN Punjabi Plus, ATN ABP Saanjha, ATN Alpha Punjabi, ATN Punjabi News, ATN Punjabi 5 & ATN Zee Punjabi English & Hindi Language – ATN News 18, ATN Times Now & NDTV Good Times Urdu Language – ATN ARY Digital, ARY Musik, ARY QTV, ATN ARY News & ATN Urdu Bengali Language – ATN Bangla, ATN Colors Bangla, ATN Sony Aath & Channel I Bangla Tamil Language – ATN Jaya TV, ATN Vijay TV, ATN Tamil Plus & ATN Vijay Super Gujarati Language – ATN Gujarati Marathi Language – ATN Colors Marathi Telugu Language – SVBC Customers will be able to subscribe to these channels individually or as part of ATN's multicultural packages. This strategic packaging is expected to significantly boost ATN's subscription-based revenue, as it allows for greater market penetration and higher per-household value through bundled offerings. About ATN-Asian Television Network International Limited ATN serves Canada's diverse cultural communities with over 50 specialty television channels. The Company offers its flagship ATN-HD general interest legacy service along with 7 other general interest Hindi channels, 3 sports channels, 7 news channels, 5 Bollywood movie channels and a variety of channels that include music, lifestyle, and several regional language channels that includes Punjabi, Tamil, Bengali, Urdu, Gujarati & Marathi. ATN has been a pioneer in the production of multicultural television programming in Canada. ATN has programming alliances with leading international broadcasters like Sony Entertainment Television, Disney/Reliance-Star, Viacom/ India Cast, CNN News 18, Zee Network, Doordarshan, Times Television, B4U, NDTV (Good Times), Republic TV, ABP News Network, Jaya TV, ARY, FOOD FOOD Network and many more.. ATN is also a pioneer broadcaster of Cricket in Canada and has exclusive broadcast rights for various International Cricket Boards. ATN was the first to bring the ICC World Cup of Cricket live across Canada in 1987 and since have exclusively broadcast a large number of Test Matches, One Day Internationals, limited over T-20 games including the Premier of IPL & various T-10 leagues. ATN's content is also available on Amazon Prime in USA & UK, ATN has its own state of the art production and digital broadcast facilities which have also been used by various production companies associated with Netflix, CBC and others. We rely on safe harbour provision.
Time of India
05-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Engineers flag safety concerns in old ATC system shift to new facility
1 2 3 4 5 6 Kolkata: A section of engineers in the communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) dept as well as controllers at Kolkata airport have raised apprehensions regarding the proposed relocation of existing air safety systems from the current air traffic navigation (ATN) building to the new ATC tower and technical block. These systems are crucial for maintaining air safety standards. The automation system plays a vital role in ensuring aviation safety, affecting both local flights and approximately 800 aircraft passing through the Kolkata flight information region (FIR). The Kolkata FIR oversees 18.5 lakh sq km of airspace, comprising 14.7 lakh sq km continental and 3.8 lakh sq km oceanic areas. Air traffic controllers in Kolkata supervise 15 international routes, 37 crossings and 10 converging points. You Can Also Check: Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata The relocation aims to utilise the newly completed ATN complex, operational since Feb 2024, and facilitate the old building's demolition for constructing a new terminal in the airport's expansion phase. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like The place-to-be for automation and robotics Undo Relevant topics from automation, AI and robotics Undo Valuable contacts with international exhibitors Undo Fresh input at the top-class supporting program Undo The leading trade fair for automation & robotics Undo Sources informed TOI about worries regarding the durability of aged systems and equipment and their ability to withstand the relocation. "The system and equipment that are currently in use were purchased around 2012-13. They should have been replaced by now. But with the procurement being delayed, it is now being proposed to relocate the facilities with the old system to the new complex. That may lead to a compromise in safety. We strongly recommend the shift takes place after the new system and equipment is installed," an official said. The implementation of new systems would require approximately two years, encompassing tender processes, bidder selection, procurement, installation and testing procedures. The relocation involves multiple facilities, including the seventh-floor tower, third-floor area control, second-floor simulator training facility, ground floor offices (briefing, NOTAM, and Met), CNS department offices across various floors, and administrative sections. Officials highlight significant challenges in relocating the MSSR, used for precise aircraft tracking, and VHF transmitters.
