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Punjabi Channels Live in the USA & Canada — 90+ Punjabi TV Channels
Morning kirtan from Amritsar, the news from Chandigarh, Vaisakhi and the Gurpurabs, kabaddi from the village grounds and the music nobody can sit still through — streamed to your television and held for seven days, whatever the clock says in Punjab.
- 90+Live Punjabi channels
- 7 DaysCatch-up on live TV
- IncludedPunjabi on demand
- No DishNo contract
Built for Punjabi homes abroad
One subscription for the whole household, with every other Indian language included.
- Daily Gurbani kirtan and Gurpurab coverage
- News, serials, talk shows and cinema
- Bhangra, folk, Sufi and new Punjabi music
- Punjabi films on demand
- Smart TV, Firestick, phone, tablet or box
- Support in Punjabi, Hindi and English
No card details needed for the trial.
The language that travelled further than most
Few communities have spread as widely or held on as tightly. Punjabi has roughly 150 million native speakers, and outside South Asia the largest concentrations are in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia — around 670,000 speakers in Canada alone, where Punjabi has become one of the most spoken languages in the country.
In North America that means Surrey and Abbotsford in British Columbia, Brampton and Mississauga in Ontario, Calgary and Edmonton, and across the border the Central Valley towns of California, the New York and New Jersey suburbs, Chicago, Seattle and the trucking corridors of Indiana and Texas. Communities built over generations, not a recent arrival.
Our Punjabi package brings Punjab's television into those homes: live channels, seven days of catch-up so nothing is lost to the time difference, and an on-demand library of films and programmes to watch whenever it suits.
Punjabi is the official language of Punjab state in India and the most widely spoken language in Pakistan. Figures from census and language-survey data.
Kirtan in the morning, wherever you wake up
For a great many Punjabi households this is the single most important thing a subscription does. Not the serials, not the films — the live kirtan that goes on in the background while the house wakes up, exactly as it would at home.
Daily kirtan
Live Gurbani broadcasts run through the day from Amritsar and other historic gurdwaras, so Asa di Var in the morning and Rehras in the evening are there without anyone needing to find them.
Gurpurabs
Full coverage of the Gurpurabs through the year, including Nagar Kirtan processions, akhand path conclusions and the programmes that run for days around the larger anniversaries.
Katha and history
Katha, discourse and Sikh history programming, alongside the children's and youth content that teaches Gurmukhi and the shabads to a generation growing up in English.
The seven-day catch-up matters more here than anywhere. A Gurpurab programme that runs through the night in Punjab lands in the middle of a North American working day. Being able to come back to it after dinner, rather than missing it for another year, is the reason many families subscribe in the first place.
What Punjabi households watch
Punjab's television is louder and more musical than most, and its news agenda is unusually close to the land. Every channel is delivered through authorised distribution partners. The full channel listing sets out everything included, language by language.
News from Punjab
Bulletins and debate from Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Amritsar, covering state politics, the districts and the NRI stories that matter when half the family lives abroad.
Farming and mandi coverage
Crop news, mandi rates, weather for the sowing and harvest windows, and agricultural programming — a daily fixture on Punjabi television and the thing many families abroad still check first.
Punjabi music
One of the most exported music industries on earth. New releases, countdowns and live performance, alongside the folk that came before it — tappe, boliyan, and the tumbi and algoza traditions.
Bhangra and giddha
Competition programming, academy showcases and festival performance, with the dhol work that children here will recognise from every wedding they have ever been to.
Punjabi cinema
An industry with a strong comedy tradition and an unusually direct relationship with its diaspora — films set as often in Canada and England as in Punjab itself.
Kabaddi
Circle-style kabaddi from village grounds and tournament circuits, the sport that still draws the biggest crowds in rural Punjab and has its own league season across North America.
Sufi and devotional music
Qawwali, kafis and the Sufi poetry tradition that belongs to Punjabi on both sides of the border, alongside shabad kirtan and bhajan programming.
Talk shows and comedy
Celebrity interviews, music-industry chat, stand-up and the sketch comedy that circulates endlessly through family WhatsApp groups.
Cookery
Sarson da saag and makki di roti in winter, langar-style cooking, dhaba food, pinni and the festival sweets that mark each point in the year.
Kids in Punjabi
Cartoons dubbed into Punjabi and children's programming made in the language — everyday listening for children who speak English at school and answer their grandparents in it too.
The Punjabi year, month by month
Punjab keeps its own calendar, and broadcasting follows it. Here is the year by Punjabi month with each month's approximate Western position. Gurpurab dates vary by the calendar a community follows, so exact days move from year to year.
| Punjabi month | Occasions | What you'll see on TV |
|---|---|---|
| Chetmid-Mar – mid-Apr | Punjabi New Year · Hola Mohalla | New year programming, and the martial display, kirtan and langar of Hola Mohalla from Anandpur Sahib |
| Vaisakhmid-Apr – mid-May | Vaisakhi | The biggest day of the year: Nagar Kirtan processions, Khalsa commemoration, harvest programming and bhangra from dawn |
| Jethmid-May – mid-Jun | Martyrdom commemorations | Historical programming, katha and shabad kirtan through the hottest weeks of the year |
| Harhmid-Jun – mid-Jul | Monsoon arrives | Sowing-season farming coverage and weather programming |
| Sawanmid-Jul – mid-Aug | Teeyan · Rakhi | The women's monsoon festival with giddha and folk song, and Raksha Bandhan programming |
| Bhadonmid-Aug – mid-Sep | First Parkash commemoration | Kirtan darbars and historical programming marking the first installation of the Guru Granth Sahib |
| Assumid-Sep – mid-Oct | Navratri · Dusshera | Festival coverage and the start of the harvest-season agricultural reporting |
| Katakmid-Oct – mid-Nov | Bandi Chhor Divas · Diwali · Guru Nanak Gurpurab | Illuminations and fireworks from Amritsar, then the Gurpurab with Nagar Kirtan, akhand path and night-long kirtan darbars |
| Magharmid-Nov – mid-Dec | Martyrdom week | Days of commemorative programming, katha and historical documentaries |
| Pohmid-Dec – mid-Jan | Lohri · Winter | Bonfire night with folk song, dhol and sweets, plus winter cookery and wedding-season programming |
| Maghmid-Jan – mid-Feb | Maghi · Guru Gobind Singh Gurpurab | Maghi mela coverage from Muktsar and Gurpurab programming across the channels |
| Phagunmid-Feb – mid-Mar | Holi · Basant | Spring colour, kite-flying programming and the run-up to the new year |
Where Punjab's broadcast day falls on your clock
India does not shift for daylight saving but North America does, so the gap moves twice a year. That matters most for the early kirtan and the late Gurpurab programming.
| In Punjab (IST) | Typical programming | Eastern · Toronto, New York | Central · Calgary, Chicago | Pacific · Surrey, Seattle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00 – 6:00 am | Amrit vela kirtan | 6:30 – 8:30 pm, previous day | 5:30 – 7:30 pm, previous day | 3:30 – 5:30 pm, previous day |
| 8:00 am | Morning news and farming | 10:30 pm, previous day | 9:30 pm, previous day | 7:30 pm, previous day |
| 1:00 pm | Afternoon cinema and music | 3:30 am | 2:30 am | 12:30 am |
| 7:00 pm | Evening news and debate | 9:30 am | 8:30 am | 6:30 am |
| 8:00 – 11:00 pm | Prime time, kirtan darbars on Gurpurabs | 10:30 am – 1:30 pm | 9:30 am – 12:30 pm | 7:30 – 10:30 am |
Times are for daylight saving (mid-March to early November); take off another hour in winter. The useful quirk is at the top of the table: amrit vela kirtan in Punjab lands in the early evening across North America, so it is one broadcast you can catch live without setting an alarm.
Gurmukhi at Sunday school, Punjabi the rest of the week
Most gurdwaras in North America run Punjabi classes, and they teach the script and the shabads properly. What a few hours a week cannot give a child is the sheer quantity of ordinary spoken Punjabi needed before answering bibi ji in Punjabi feels easier than answering in English.
Television does that quietly. It also keeps children connected to things that are hard to describe from six thousand miles away — what a Nagar Kirtan actually sounds like, what the fields look like at harvest, why everyone in the room stands up when a particular shabad begins.
What tends to work
- Leave kirtan on in the morning. Children absorb the rhythm and the vocabulary long before they can explain either.
- Switch a favourite cartoon to Punjabi. A story they already know carries them through unfamiliar words.
- Watch Vaisakhi together. Half a million people in Surrey makes more sense once they have seen the processions in Punjab too.
- Use the music. Punjabi songs travel into children's heads faster than any lesson ever will.
Set it up in the time it takes to make chah
There is no dish, no technician and no appointment to wait in for. The picture comes down the same line as everything else in the house, and about 15 Mbps will carry one HD channel, with 25 Mbps comfortable for two or three screens together.
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- iPhone & iPad
- Android phone & tablet
- Windows & macOS
- MAG & IPTV set-top boxes
Away from home a lot? The account works on a phone as well as the television, which suits long-haul drivers and anyone on shifts. For the house, a set-top box arrives configured and opens straight onto the channel list.
Four steps to Punjabi TV
- Trial it. A day of real access, on your own television, before you commit to anything.
- Choose a period. One month through to five years, paid once and done.
- Check your inbox. The login lands there minutes after the order clears.
- Watch. Punjabi channels, catch-up and on demand, plus the other language packs.
One account instead of six
Most families end up with kirtan on one app, the news on a website, music on a video platform and somebody's cousin's login for the rest. It works until a stream fails on a Gurpurab morning or nobody can remember where the serials were.
Putting it in one place ends the guesswork. One login for the household, one charge a year or five, and a number that someone actually answers. Every stream is delivered through authorised distribution partners; we do not host or rebroadcast content ourselves and we do not carry unlicensed feeds.
Charges that simply do not exist
- No equipment fee. Nothing is fitted to the property and nothing is reclaimed later.
- No automatic billing. The term expires quietly and waits for you to decide.
- No per-language add-on. Every Indian language pack is included.
- No postcode restrictions. The login follows you to any province or state.
- No hidden charges. Our refund policy is published in plain English.
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Punjabi IPTV questions, answered
What Punjabi households in the US and Canada ask us most often. More in our general FAQ.
How many Punjabi channels are included?
More than 90 live Punjabi channels, covering Gurbani kirtan and devotional programming, news and farming coverage, music, bhangra and folk, cinema, talk shows, comedy, cookery, kids and kabaddi. Punjabi films and programmes on demand are included at no extra cost, and the same subscription carries every other Indian language pack.
Can I watch live kirtan from Amritsar?
Yes. Live Gurbani broadcasts run through the day from Amritsar and other historic gurdwaras, so morning and evening kirtan are available without searching for them. The amrit vela broadcast falls in the early evening across North America, which makes it one of the few programmes easier to catch live here than at home.
Is Vaisakhi and Gurpurab programming covered?
Yes. Vaisakhi brings Nagar Kirtan processions and a full day of programming, and the Gurpurabs through the year are covered with kirtan darbars, akhand path conclusions and historical programming. All of it stays on seven-day catch-up, which matters because Gurpurab broadcasts often run overnight in Punjab and land in the middle of a working day here.
Do you carry channels from Pakistani Punjab as well?
The package is built mainly around channels broadcasting from Punjab in India, in Gurmukhi. Punjabi music, Sufi poetry, folk traditions and cinema are shared widely across both sides of the border. If particular programming matters to your household, mention it when you request the free trial and we will show you what is available before you pay.
Is there kabaddi coverage?
Yes. Circle-style kabaddi from village grounds and tournament circuits is carried on the Punjabi channels, along with wrestling and other rural sport. Coverage is heaviest through the winter tournament season.
What time do Punjabi programmes air in the US and Canada?
Prime time in Punjab runs roughly 8:00 to 11:00 pm, which is about 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on the East Coast and 7:30 to 10:30 am on the Pacific coast during daylight saving time, an hour earlier in winter. Early morning kirtan lands in the previous evening here, between roughly 3:30 and 8:30 pm depending on your time zone.
Does the Punjabi package work in Canada?
Yes, and Canada is where most of our Punjabi customers are. It works the same in Surrey, Abbotsford, Brampton, Mississauga, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg or Montreal as anywhere in the United States, since everything travels over broadband rather than a dish.
Will it help my children keep their Punjabi?
It supplies what Sunday classes at the gurdwara cannot: hours of everyday spoken Punjabi. Classes teach Gurmukhi and the shabads well, but fluency comes from listening, and kirtan in the background, dubbed cartoons and family programming all provide that without feeling like a lesson.
Do I need a dish or a set-top box?
No dish is needed at any point. A Smart TV, streaming stick, tablet or laptop will all carry it. A set-top box is optional and worth it when older family members want one remote that opens on the channel list with no menus to learn.
Can I watch on my phone while I'm on the road?
Yes. The account works on phones and tablets as well as the television, which suits long-haul drivers and anyone working shifts. Mobile data will carry a stream, though a wi-fi connection at a stop uses far less of your allowance.
What internet speed do I need?
One HD channel runs on about 15 Mbps of dependable bandwidth; allow 25 Mbps or more for 4K or a houseful of screens. Plugging the television into the router directly, where that is possible, fixes more picture problems than anything else.
Can I try Punjabi channels before paying?
Yes. No card number and no billing details are needed for the 24-hour trial. Mention Punjabi when you apply and the trial will be set up with the Punjabi channels so you can check picture quality on your own television and connection.
Is the service licensed?
Content is delivered through authorised distribution partners. We do not host or rebroadcast programming ourselves and we do not carry unlicensed feeds.
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