News, music, films, series and the Nowruz countdown, live or on catch-up. No satellite dish and no special box: just the TV, stick or phone you already own.
Every plan includes the full Persian list, plus Kurdish, Afghan and Turkish channels. Looking for one channel? Ask us on WhatsApp before you buy.
Persian-language channels for news, entertainment, music, films and series
Film channels in Persian, around the clock
Kurdish channels, including 23 news, 12 kids’ and 11 sports channels
Turkish drama is what many Persian households watch now. It’s all in the same plan
Channels from Afghanistan for Dari- and Pashto-speaking families
HD on most channels, 4K where available and backup streams on some
Some channels are listed in more than one quality or with a backup stream, and each version is counted.
The new year arrives at the vernal equinox: 20:24 UTC on Saturday 20 March 2027, which is 23:54 in Tehran. Here’s when the countdown reaches your living room.
Times calculated from the equinox at 20:24 UTC. In North America the countdown lands on a Saturday afternoon, so the whole family can watch it together.
The longest night of the year: pomegranates, watermelon, Hafez and family late into the night. UNESCO added it to its heritage list in 2022.
The fire festival on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year, the start of the Nowruz week.
Saal Tahvil at 23:54 Tehran time, followed by the new year shows and concerts of the first days of Farvardin.
Iran played two of its World Cup 2026 group games in Los Angeles. Every national team match is a night for the whole family.
Sources: UNESCO (Yalda), timeanddate and universaltimedate (equinox time), FIFA World Cup 2026 schedule.
Iran stopped changing its clocks in 2022 and now stays on UTC+3:30 all year. The gap only moves when your own clocks change.
The first time in each row is for the northern winter, the second for the northern summer (Sydney the other way round).
In Los Angeles, Tehran’s prime time arrives at breakfast. On supported channels you can go back and watch programmes from the past few days, so the evening news and the new episode can wait for your evening.
For many families, Persian TV abroad started with a satellite dish: the first Persian-language satellite channel broadcasting from abroad launched in 1999, and relatives gathered at whoever’s home had one. People still search for channel frequencies and Persian TV boxes today.
A dish needs a roof, a landlord’s permission and a technician. A box is one TV with a fixed list. Neither gives you catch-up when you’re 11 hours behind.
Source: Ajam Media Collective, “Artifacts: The Satellite Dish”.
At the Khayam Persian School in Irvine, founded in 1982, almost all pupils are second-generation, and teachers say children who hear Persian at home learn to read and write it more easily. Persian TV in the background is the easiest way to keep the language in the house.
About half of Afghan immigrants in the US speak Dari or Farsi at home. They can follow the Persian channels, with 15 Afghan channels included as well.
Sources: Center for Applied Linguistics, Khayam Persian School profile; Migration Policy Institute, Afghan Immigrants in the United States.
Sources: Pew Research Center 2026 (ACS 2024), Statistics Canada 2021, ONS, NRS and NISRA censuses 2021–22, ABS Census 2021.
GitHub lists and free M3U links work for a while, then the channels go dark, usually on the night you wanted them.
About 10 Mbps of steady internet per screen for Full HD, 25 Mbps for 4K. A network cable to the TV prevents most buffering: check your connection in two minutes.
Every plan has every channel. You only choose how many screens play at the same time, and for how long. 3-month and 6-month plans are on the plans page.
or $60.99 (about $5 a month) for 12 months
or $99.99 for 12 months
or $150.99 for 12 months
Full refund within 48 hours, for any reason. Test the channels on your own TV, with your own internet. After that, our 14-day money-back guarantee covers any technical problem on our side that we can’t fix.
Pick the number of screens and how long you want it on the plans page.
A real person sends it, usually within 5 minutes and never more than 15.
The Persian channels sit together in their own groups, and the TV guide fills in automatically.
Yes. Watch TV Direct works over your home internet, so there’s no dish, no frequencies to set and no box to buy. It works on a smart TV, Firestick, phone or computer.
660+ on our Persian list, including HD and backup versions of some channels, with 25 Persian film channels among them. Every plan also includes 300+ Kurdish, 470+ Turkish and 15 Afghan channels.
Yes, 15 channels from Afghanistan are included, and Dari speakers can follow the Persian channels too.
The equinox is at 20:24 UTC on Saturday 20 March 2027: 23:54 in Tehran, 13:24 in Los Angeles, 16:24 in Toronto and New York, and 20:24 in London.
Send us the channel name on WhatsApp and we’ll check before you buy. It takes a minute.
Yes, with the 2-screen or 3-screen plan. Install the app on as many devices as you like; the plan sets how many can play at the same time.
We don’t do trials. Instead, you can ask for a full refund within 48 hours of buying, for any reason, so you can test the Persian channels on your own TV before you decide.
660+ Persian channels, 40,000+ channels in total, catch-up and a TV guide, on the devices you already own. Full refund within 48 hours if it’s not for you.
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