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Revision as of 11:41, 10 October 2008

13°02′31″N 80°14′54″E / 13.04199°N 80.24831°E / 13.04199; 80.24831

For other uses, see Sun TV (disambiguation).
Sun TV Network
Company typePrivate
IndustryDTH Pay TV
Founded1992
HeadquartersChennai, Tamil Nadu,  India
ProductsDirect broadcast satellite
Websitewww.sunnetwork.in

Sun TV Network is a Rs 16000-crore (4 Billion $) Indian cable television network based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1993, it offers a plethora of television channels in 4 languages covering the whole of southern India. It was the first fully privately owned Tamil channel in India when it emerged in 1993. Its serials and soaps have generated the maximum TRP for viewership all over India, making it the most popular network of channels in India. Till 2007 coupled with the DMK-backed Karunanidhi family, it was the largest political-media family in India till the split in November 2005.

All its channels occupy the top spots in their respective languages. Sun TV, in Tamil is the Network's flagship and most popular channel. Being the premier channel, Sun TV is often used to refer to the Sun TV Network in general.

Kalanithi Maran is the Chairman and Managing Director of media giant Sun Network and has been given various awards including the CNBC "Business Excellence Award" in 2005.

Sun Network also offers FM Radio Stations ( 93.5 FM ) It has 45 FM Radio Stations and has recently forayed into the print business. In addition, it has also recently launched a DTH satellite television service entitled Sun Direct.

Recently Sun Network introduced its cinema entertainment label Sun Pictures.

Channels

Sun Network offers 20 television channels in four languages, generally targeting southern Indian viewers. Various networks are also available abroad for international viewers. The channel offerings are as follows:[1]

Although its main presence is in Tamil, it has channels in other languages also.

Tamil
Channel Type
Sun TV Tamil Entertainment Channel
KTV Tamil Movie Channel
Sun Music Tamil Music Channel
Sun News Tamil News Channel
Chutti TV Tamil Kids Channel
Comedy Thirai Tamil Comedy Channel
Kannada
Channel Type
Udaya TV Kannada Entertainment Channel
Udaya Movies Kannada Movie Channel
U 2 Kannada Music Channel
Udaya Varthegalu Kannada Documentary Channel
Chintu TV Kannada Kids Channel (coming soon)
Haasya Tere Kannada Comedy Channel
Telugu
Channel Type
Gemini TV Telugu Entertainment Channel
Teja TV Telugu Movie Channel
Gemini Music Telugu Music Channel
Gemini News Telugu News Channel
Gemini Kids Telugu Kids Channel (coming soon)
Navulla Tara Telugu Commedy Channel
Malayalam
Channel Type
Surya TV - Malayalam Entertainment Channel
Kiran TV - Malayalam Music Channel
Kochu TV - Malayalam Kids Channel (coming soon)

Bengali

Film Production

Sun Network has also ventured into producing tamil films from September 2008. The production venture is named Sun Pictures Pvt. Ltd. It plans to produce at least 10 feature films each in three languages - Tamil, Telugu and Kannada annually through Sun Pictures. Sun TV Network has signed up with all leading players, including stars, directors and music directors in the Tamil film industry.The move to directly get into film production is a natural extension for Sun, which has acquired almost 80 per cent of all the movies in the southern regional markets for well over a decade. Films produced or in production under this banner are:

FM Radio Stations

Visit http://www.sfm935.in/ to hear Chennai Suryan FM online

Tamil FM Stations

Malayalam FM Stations

Telugu FM Station

Kannada FM Station

Hindi / Other Language FM Station

SUN DIRECT - DTH Service

Satellite Insat 4B

The "SUN Direct", DTH service from the South Indian Media Giant, SUN Network, started on 7th December 2007. The Initial rollout was only in its home land "Tamil Nadu", where they face all hurdles. After a big struggle, they were able to launch the product in all over south and has more 1.3 million subscribers in south India making it the largest and most popular DTH service provider in south India. Kicking off its drive to achieve a pan-India presence, Sun Direct TV Pvt Ltd launched its services in Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and other states of Hindi speaking belt would be targetted in the other phases of expansion.

  • Sun Direct - India's youngest and most exciting state of the art DTH Company. It is the fastest growing DTH company in India. It predicts to cross 2 million subscribers within this year end.

Sun Direct uses the latest MPEG-4 based technology to increase broadcast capacity. Sun Direct confirms to provide next-generation services in fast-growing and emerging markets quickly and efficiently. Sun Direct will be supported by Irdeto's conditional access solution to manage content and revenues in the satellite broadcasting venture.

Sun Direct selected Oracle based on its convergent multi-service capabilities and proven real-time scalability allowing it to consolidate billing operations, enable powerful new service offerings and improve visibility into customer information across services.

Sun Direct is also ready to offer High Definition Televison (HDTV) and it is currently aggregating HDTV content. The DHT service provider hopes to come out with HDTV over next few months.

Print Media

Tamil NewsPapers

Weekly Tamil Magazine

Location and Contact Address

SunTV Network Corporate Office

4, Norton Road,

Mandaveli, Chennai-28.

Tamil Nadu, India.

Phone No: 044-24648181

Fax: 044-24648282

History and Ownership

Its ownership lies in the hands of Kalanidhi Maran who is related to Karunanidhi, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and head of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). In fact the logo of Sun TV was inspired by the "Rising Sun" which is the party symbol of DMK. The headquarters too is in the premises of Anna Arivalayam the HQ of DMK in Chennai.

It was the first fully privately owned Tamil channel in India when it emerged in 1993.

On November 7, 2005, DMK president M Karunanidhi announced that his wife Dayalu Ammal has relinquished her 20% shares in Sun Network and its Tamil publications [1]. This arrangement was on the cards for many months. The move by Karunanidhi’s family to divest from the Rs 600-crore Sun TV Group comes in the wake of speculation that the 85-year-old DMK patriarch is quite piqued with the channel’s managers for virtually blacking out his son, MK Stalin, the DMK’s deputy general secretary, who is being groomed to take over the DMK reins.

See also

External links

Other links

  1. ^ http://www.SunNetwork.in/
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