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VIDEO: Multi-Ethnic Station Serves Indian, Filipino, Taiwanese, and Many Communities

Ravi Kapur co-founded KAXT, the first Channel 1 in the nation, which has 20 different stations and is readying a launch in the African American community Sept. 26.

Flip on Channel 1 watch the world come to you.

Taiwanese, Filipinos, the Taiwanese, the Vietnamese, Spanish speakers, and the Indians now have a television channel devoted to their communities.

On free TV, not cable.

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KAXT, based in San Jose, is the most diverse television channel in the nation, says co-founder Ravi Kapur, with 12 different news channels and eight audio stations, to serve hyperlocal communities in the Bay Area that never before had their own stations.

Co-founders Ravi Kapur and Warren Trumbly will launch the first African-American television channel on Sept. 26 to increase their coverage of the Bay Area's ethnic communities.

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Once the FCC transitioned from analog to digital television in 2009, Kapur and Trumbly were able to transmit 20 channels using one stream. Ah, the power of digital.

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