| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Media, film production, distribution, telecommunication |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Area served | 27 countries including U.S.A, Canada, Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, Srilanka, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand |
| Key people | Kalanidhi Maran |
| Products | Sun TV Dinakaran Suryan FM Red FM 93.5 Sun Pictures Sun Direct DTH |
| Parent | Sun Group |
| Website |
Sun TV Network website Sun Group website Sun Network website |
Sun TV Network is an Indian media company based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, part of Kal Media Services, Sun Group. It has been named as Asia's most profitable media corporations and the largest TV network.[1][2] Established on April 14, 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.
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. Sun Network had recently begun film distribution and production through Sun Pictures. In addition, is also provides direct-broadcast satellite under the service called Sun Direct DTH, a joint venture along with Astro.
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Sun Network offers 21 television channels in four languages, generally targeting southern Indian viewers.
| SD Channels | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[3] | Gemini Movies | Udaya Movies | - | |
| News Channels | Sun News | Gemini News | Udaya News | - | |
| Comedy Channels | Adithya TV | Gemini Comedy | Udaya Comedy | - | |
| Kids Channels | Chutti TV | Kushi TV | Chintu TV | Kochu TV |
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| HD Channels | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Tamil | Telugu | Kannada | Malayalam | |
| Entertainment Channels | Sun TV | Gemini TV | |||
| Music Channels | Sun Music | ||||
| Movie Channels | K TV | ||||
The following channels are planned:[4]
Sun Network owns two Radio brands: Suryan FM[5] and for other territories than Tamil Nadu, Red FM. Sun is one of the largest Radio broadcasters in India.
| SURYAN FM 93.5 MHZ | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamilnadu | TAMIL | Chennai | Coimbatore | Trichy | Madurai | Tirunelveli | Tuticorin | Pondicherry |
| RED FM 93.5 MHZ | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Language | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Kerala | MALAYALAM | Kochi | Trissur | Kannur | Kozhikode | Thiruvananthapuram | - |
| Andhra pradesh |
TELUGU | Rajamundry | Hyderabad | Tirupati | Vijayawada | Vishakapatnam | Warangal |
| Karnataka | KANNADA | Bengaluru | Mangalore | Mysore | Gulbarga | - | - |
| Maharashtra | HINDI /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 | - | - | - |
| HINDI /OTHER | Asansol | Jamshedpur | Guwahati | Jaipur | Bhubaneshwar | - | |
| HINDI /OTHER | Gangtok | Siliguri | Shillong | - | - | - | |
| with a 48.9% stake |
HINDI /OTHER | New Delhi | Mumbai | Kolkata | - | - | - |
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