Iranican

Infobox television
show_name = Iranican


caption = "Iranican" title card
format = Talk show
runtime = 1 hour
starring = Behnoush Babzani, Mahvash Jafarinejad, Iman Oskoorouchi
country = United States
network = Persian News Network Pnn
first_aired = October 8, 2005
last_aired = Present
imdb_id =

The term "Iranican" was first introduced by one of the hosts. This term was widely coined by Siamack Baniameri's book The [http://www.iranican-dream.com/ Iranican Dream] published in 2005. Iranican is a derivative of the two words "Iranian" and "American", however because in Persian, "Irani" means Iranian, it also carries the meaning of Irani [an] can.

History

From October 8th, 2005 with original co-hosts were Ali Ebrahimi, Samira Kashani, Iman Oskoorouchi, Shobeir Shobeiri, Shadi Sharif, Salman Roknizadeh, and Shadi Vaezzadeh till December 23rd, 2006; Iranican aired on Saturdays from 11AM-Noon PST on Persian News Network Pnn (See a List of Persian language television channels). A day or two later, Pnn was cut off Telestar5 satellite, however Iranican continued airing its shows live online directly from its website for a few weeks. Pnn has not come back since, but Iranican was picked up by another Satellite Channel, Markazi TV. The first Iranican show on Markazi aired live on July 29th 2007. A few months later Markazi went off Satellite for 2 months to switch frequency while Iranican started to make short online reports and has continued to do so since. On May 21st 2008, Iranican re-launched its discussion formatted talk shows as a radio program on Radio Javan.

Launch

The official launch on February 11, 2006 featured Maz Jobrani, an Iranian American Comedian [http://www.mazjobrani.com] and Ahmad Ahmad, an Egyptian American Comedian [http://www.ahmed-ahmed.com/] . This launch was the first Iranican show to feature a live audience in the studio and since then, Iranican has not had another show with a live audience.

External links

* [http://www.iranican.com Iranican]