Sun TV Network

Sun TV Network
	Sun Network headquarters
Type	Public
Traded as	BSE: 532733; NSE: SUNTV
Industry	Mass media
Founded	14 April 1992 (29 years ago)
Founder	Kalanithi Maran
Headquarters	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Key people	Kalanithi Maran (Chairman)
Products	Broadcasting; publishing; radio; web portals;
Revenue	₹3,388.03 crore (US$450 million) (2020-2021)
Operating income	₹1,453.22 crore (US$190 million) (2020-2021)
Net income	₹1,520.41 crore (US$200 million) (2020-2021)
Total assets	₹7,777.68 crore (US$1.0 billion) (2019-2020)
Number of employees	1,352 (2021)
Parent	SUN Group
Website	www.suntv.in; www.sunnetwork.in

Sun TV Network is an Indian Mass media company headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a part of Sun Group and is one of Asia's largest TV networks.^[2]^[3] Established on 14 April 1992 by Kalanithi maran, it owns a variety of television channels in multiple languages and radio stations in multiple languages. Its flagship channel is Sun TV, which was the first fully privately owned Regional TV Channel in India and the First Tamil TV channel in World. Sun Group has owned Hyderabad-based IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad since 2012.^[4]^[5]

Products and operations[]

Television channels[]

SUN Group currently owns and operates 33 TV channels (25 SD + 8HD) across Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and Bengali .

HD Channels
Category	Tamil	Telugu	Kannada	Malayalam
Entertainment	Sun TV HD	Gemini TV HD	Udaya TV HD	Surya TV HD
Movie	K TV HD	Gemini Movies HD
Music	Sun Music HD	Gemini Music HD


SD Channels
Category	Tamil	Telugu	Kannada	Malayalam	Bengali	Marathi
Entertainment	Sun TV	Gemini TV	Udaya TV	Surya TV	Sun Bangla	Sun Marathi
Movie	K TV	Gemini Movies	Udaya Movies	Surya Movies
Music	Sun Music	Gemini Music	Udaya Music	Surya Music
Comedy	Adithya TV	Gemini Comedy	Udaya Comedy	Surya Comedy
Kids	Chutti TV	Kushi TV	Chintu TV	Kochu TV
Classic	Sun Life	Gemini Life
News	Sun News

Defunct Channels
Name	Category	Language	Notes
Sun Action	Movies	Tamil	Replaced by HD Channels in 2016-2017
Gemini Action		Telugu	Replaced by HD channels in 2016-2017
Surya Action		Malayalam	Replaced by Surya Comedy
Suriyan TV		Kannada	Replaced by HD channels in 2016-2017
Gemini News	News	Telugu	Replaced by Sun Bangla
Udaya News	News	Kannada	Replaced by Sun Marathi

Upcoming Channels
Name	Category	Language	Notes
Sun Bangla HD	Entertainment	Bengali	Launching Post NTO 2.0
Surya Movies HD	Movies	Malayalam	Launching Post NTO 2.0
Udaya Movies HD	Movies	Kannada	Launching Post NTO 2.0
Surya Music HD	Music	Malayalam	Launching Post NTO 2.0
Udaya Music HD	Music	Kannada	Launching Post NTO 2.0
Adithya TV HD	Comedy	Tamil	Launching Post NTO 2.0
Gemini Comedy HD	Comedy	Telugu	Launching Post NTO 2.0
Sun News HD	News	Tamil	Launching Post NTO 2.0

Film production[]

Sun Pictures is a film production and distribution company established in 2000 it is a Part of Sun TV Network. It produced the TV film Siragugal and Rajnikanth starrer Endhiran. It has distributed more than 20 Tamil films starting from Kadhalil Vizhunthen, and now Producing many big budget movies.^[6]^[7]

Television production company[]

Sun Entertainment is television production company, which produces small budget movies for Sun TV Direct TV Premier, after movie released in TV it will available only on Sun NXT OTT App, also co-producing all upcoming webseries in Sun NXT OTT Platform which are coming soon in 2022 mid and also co-producing the serials which are showing in their TV channels.

OTT Platform[]

Sun NXT is a global online audio/video streaming platform owned and operated by Sun TV Network. Has more than 4000 movie titles and more than 450 TV shows. Sun TV network is planning to invest more it's ott platform Sun NXT by making original web series and original ott movies from the mid of the 2022 .^[7]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Sun TV Network Profit & Loss". Sun TV Network. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
^ "Sun, Zee remain top on profitability charts". Rediff.com. 31 December 2013.
^ "Problems in Sun TV Network license renewal". kinindia.net. 8 June 2015.
^ "Sun TV Network win Hyderabad IPL franchise". Wisden India. 25 October 2012. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
^ "Sun Risers to represent Hyderabad in IPL". Wisden India. 18 December 2012. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
^ "Sun TV bails out Endhiran". behindwoods.com. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
^ ^a ^b Narasimhan, T. E. (13 November 2020). "Sun TV to invest around Rs 600 cr in movies and content for OTT platform". Business Standard India. Retrieved 7 December 2020.

[SunTVAnnualReport-1] "Sun TV Network Profit & Loss". Sun TV Network. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2019.

[2] "Sun, Zee remain top on profitability charts". Rediff.com. 31 December 2013.

[3] "Problems in Sun TV Network license renewal". kinindia.net. 8 June 2015.

[4] "Sun TV Network win Hyderabad IPL franchise". Wisden India. 25 October 2012. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2012.

[5] "Sun Risers to represent Hyderabad in IPL". Wisden India. 18 December 2012. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2012.

[6] "Sun TV bails out Endhiran". behindwoods.com. Retrieved 28 November 2015.

[Narasimhan-7] Narasimhan, T. E. (13 November 2020). "Sun TV to invest around Rs 600 cr in movies and content for OTT platform". Business Standard India. Retrieved 7 December 2020.

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