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| Type | Public (BSE: 532733, NSE: SUNTV) |
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| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Founder(s) | Kalanidhi Maran |
| Headquarters | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Key people | Kalanidhi Maran (Chairman) K. Vijaykumar (CEO and MD) |
| Products | Broadcasting, publishing, satellite television, Internet and movie production |
| Revenue |  19.26 billion (US$350 million) (2012)[1] |
| Net income | 6.82 billion (US$120 million) (2012) |
| Employees | 1,908 (2011) |
| Parent | Sun Group |
| Website | www.suntv.in www.sunnetwork.in |
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References: Owner of Hyderabad IPL Team |
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Sun TV Network Limited is an Indian mass media company headquartered in MRC Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a part of Sun Group. It has been named as Asia's most profitable media corporations and the largest TV network.[2][3] Established on April 13, 1993, it created and owns a variety of television channels and radio stations in multiple languages covering all Indian States. Its flagship channel is Sun TV which was the first fully privately owned Tamil channel in India when it emerged. Sun TV Networks are the owners for an Hyderabad based IPL Team, taken over from the Deccan Chargers from 2012.[4]The team will be known as the Sun Risers[5] from the 2013 season of the Indian Premier League
The company is owned by Kalanidhi Maran, who is the chairman and managing director who was recently awarded the CNBC Business Excellence Award in 2005.
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Products and operations [edit]
Television channels [edit]
Sun Network offers 32 television channels in four languages, generally targeting southern Indian viewers.
| SD Channels | |||||
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| Category | Tamil | Telugu | Kannada | Malayalam | |
| Entertainment Channels | Sun TV | Gemini TV | Udaya TV | Surya TV | |
| Music Channels | Sun Music | Gemini Music | Udaya Music | Kiran TV | |
| Movie Channels | K TV | Gemini Movies | Udaya Movies | ||
| News Channels | Sun News | Gemini News | Udaya News | ||
| Old Song Channels | Sun Life | Gemini Life | |||
| Comedy Channels | Adithya TV | Gemini Comedy | Udaya Comedy | Chirithira | |
| Kids Channels | Chutti TV | Kushi TV | Chintu TV | Kochu TV |
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| Action Movie Channels | Sun Action | Gemini Action | Suriyan TV | Surya Action |
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Sun TV RI (Rest of India) will transmit the same Sun TV content but specialized for the Rest of India i.e. all States other than Tamilnadu and enabling the Advertiser to focus on specific geographical areas.
| HD Channels | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Tamil | Telugu | Kannada | Malayalam | |
| Entertainment Channels | Sun TV HD | Gemini TV HD | |||
| Music Channels | Sun Music HD | ||||
| Movie Channels | K TV HD | ||||
The following channel is planned:[6]
- SUN NEWS ENGLISH
Print media [edit]
Sun Group’s print media - an integral part in daily life with the core purpose of enhancing society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.
NEWS PAPERS
- Dinakaran - daily morning tamil newspaper
- Tamil Murasu - daily evening tamil newspaper
MAGAZINES
- Kungumam - weekly tamil magazine
- Kumguma Chimizh - weekly tamil magazine
- Kungumam Thozhi - weekly tamil women's magazine
- Aanmigam - weekly tamil religious magazine
- Mutharam - weekly tamil magazine
- Vannathirai - weekly tamil cinema magazine
Radio stations [edit]
Sun Network is one of largest radio broadcaster in India with 45 FM Radio Stations in two Radio brands: Suryan FM in Tamil Nadu & Red FM in other parts of India.
| SURYAN FM 93.5 MHZ | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Language | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Tamil Nadu | TAMIL | Chennai | Coimbatore | Trichy | Madurai | Tirunelveli | Tuticorin | Pondicherry |
| RED FM 93.5 MHZ | ||||||||
| Kerala | MALAYALAM | Kochi | Trissur | Kannur | Kozhikode | Thiruvananthapuram | - | - |
| Andhra pradesh |
TELUGU | Rajamundry | Hyderabad | Tirupati | Vijayawada | Vishakapatnam | Warangal | - |
| Karnataka | KANNADA | Bengaluru | Mangalore | Mysore | Gulbarga | - | - | - |
| Maharashtra | MARATHI /OTHER | Aurangabad | Pune | Nashik | Nagpur | - | - | - |
| Uttar Pradesh |
HINDI /OTHER | Lucknow | Varanasi | Kanpur | Allahabad | - | - | - |
| Gujarat | HINDI /OTHER | Rajkot | Vadodara | Ahmedabad | - | - | - | - |
| Madhya Pradesh |
HINDI /OTHER | Indore | Bhopal | Jabalpur | - | - | - | - |
| Other States | HINDI /OTHER | Jaipur | Bhubaneshwar | Jamshedpur | Siliguri | Asansol | Gangtok | Guwahati |
| Other States | HINDI /OTHER | Shillong | Aizwal | - | - | - | - | - |
| with a 48.9% stake |
HINDI /OTHER | New Delhi | Mumbai | Kolkata | - | - | - | - |
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ FY 2012 Sun TV Network
- ^ "From cable TV to aviation biz, Maran’s march continues". Financialexpress.com. 2010-07-13. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
- ^ http://www.rediff.com/money/2009/apr/24sun-zee-tv-top-profitability-chart.htm
- ^ "Sun TV Network win Hyderabad IPL franchise". Wisden India. 25 October 2012.
- ^ "Sun Risers to represent Hyderabad in IPL". Wisden India. 18 December 2012.
- ^ Sun Networks new set of channels to be launched soon, India.
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