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Atlantic Access is a Canadian publicly funded educational cable television network serving the Atlantic Canada region. It is owned by the Atlantic Access Corporation, a Crown corporation owned by the provincial governments of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. The network is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Atlantic Access receives funding from the Atlantic Canada provinces' governments as well as public donations. All pay television (cable, satellite, IPTV) providers throughout Atlantic Canada are required to carry Atlantic Access on their basic tier, and programming can be streamed for free online.

Overview[]

The founder of Atlantic Access was Matthew Martirosyan, a New Brunswick journalist. He stated in a 2011 interview that the idea of Atlantic Access was to allow people to "see the Atlantic provinces as they truly are."

The proposed Atlantic educational cable network began taking shape in 1992 in a meeting of ministers of the provincial governments of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland in Matthew's adopted hometown of Campbellton, New Brunswick. On May 13, 1995, Atlantic Access signed-on for the first time from it's original studio in Halifax.

In its programming, Atlantic Access covers a range of topics including politics, history and culture, arts and music, health, parenting, and science. It has a children's block, AA+!, produced out of the network's Halifax, Moncton and Charlottetown studios.

Atlantic Access formerly had a sister network, AA2 (formerly known as Maritimes Public Access), from 2000-2011, which was sold to Rogers Media in 2012 and became a regional affiliate of their Omni Television system as Omni Maritimes.

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