Sun Network

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Sun Network is a Rs 12000-crore Indian cable television network based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1992, it offers a plethora of television channels in 4 languages covering the whole of South India. It was the first fully privately owned Tamil channel in India when it emerged in 1992. Its serials and soaps have generated the maximum TRP rating for viewership all over India, making it the most popular network of channels in India. It is a regional television network in South India and thus most North Indians are unaware of it. 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 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 ) and has recently forayed into the print business.

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Visit

http://www.sun.in

http://sunnt.com

http://www.sunnetwork.in

http://www.sunnetwork.org

Dinakaran NewsPaper - http://www.dinakaran.com

Suryan FM 93.5 - http://www.dinakaran.com/suryanfm/

1 Channels offered by Sun Network - SUN TV LIMITED
2 FM Radio Stations
3 Print Media
4 History and Ownership
5 See also

[edit] Channels offered by Sun Network - SUN TV LIMITED

Tamil

Sun TV - http://www.sunnetwork.in/suntv/
KTV
Sun News
Sun Music
Chutti Tv - http://www.sunnetwork.in/chuttitv/

Kannada

Udaya TV
Ushe TV
Udaya News
Udaya 2

Telugu

Gemini TV
Teja TV
Teja News
Aditya TV

Malayalam

It had also offered 2 (now defunct) channels Sun Movies and Sun Music. The latter was however relaunched years later in the present avatar with better success. Sun Movies was later relaunched as KTV.

[edit] FM Radio Stations

Tamil FM Stations

Suryan FM - Chennai - 93.5 MHz

-(Now we can hear Suryan FM thru Internet - Click This Link - http://www.dinakaran.com/suryanfm/)

Suryan FM - Coimbatore - 93.5 MHz
Suryan FM - Tirunelveli - 93.5 MHz

Telugu FM Station

S FM - Vishakapatinam - 93.5 MHz
S FM - Hyderabad - 93.5 MHz

Kannada FM Station

S FM - Bangalore - 93.5 MHz

Jaipur FM Station

S FM - Jaipur - 93.5 MHz

[edit] Print Media

Tamil NewsPaper - Dinakaran.Com - http://www.dinakaran.com

Dinakaran - (Daily Morning Newspaper)[1]
Tamil Murasu - (Daily Evening Newspaper)[2]

Weekly Tamil Magazine

Kungumum
Mutharam
Vannathirai
Kumguma Chimizh

[edit] 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 1992.

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 [3]. 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 82-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.

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