Sun TV Network
Type | Public |
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Traded as | BSE: 532733 NSE: SUNTV |
Industry | Mass media |
Founded | 14 April 1992 |
Founder | Kalanithi Maran |
Headquarters | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Key people | Kalanithi Maran (Chairman) |
Products |
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Revenue | ₹3,388.03 crore (US$450 million) (2020-2021)[1] |
Operating income | ₹1,453.22 crore (US$190 million) (2020-2021)[1] |
Net income | ₹1,520.41 crore (US$200 million) (2020-2021)[1] |
Total assets | ₹7,777.68 crore (US$1.0 billion) (2019-2020)[1] |
Number of employees | 1,352 (2021)[1] |
Parent | SUN Group |
Website | www www |
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 | ||||
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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 | ||||||
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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 | |||
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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 | Kannada | Replaced by Sun Marathi |
Upcoming Channels | |||
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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 | Kannada | Launching Post NTO 2.0 | |
Surya Music HD | Music | Malayalam | Launching Post NTO 2.0 |
Udaya Music HD | Kannada | Launching Post NTO 2.0 | |
Adithya TV HD | Comedy | Tamil | Launching Post NTO 2.0 |
Gemini Comedy HD | 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 will be co-producing upcoming webseries for the Sun NXT OTT Platform and this dept also co-produced the daily soaps which are to be telecasted in their channels.
OTT Platform[]
Sun NXT is a global online audio/video streaming (over-the-top) platform owned and operated by Sun TV Network. Has more than 4000 movie titles and more than 450 TV shows. Sun TV network usually takes the movies digital rights of the ones which are telecasted in it's tv channels.[7]
See also[]
- Sun Group
- Sun Pictures
- Sun Kudumbam Awards
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Sun Direct
- Red FM, Suryan FM
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.
- Sun Group
- 1993 establishments in Tamil Nadu
- Television networks in India
- Television stations in Chennai
- Television channels and stations established in 1993
- Indian Premier League franchise owners
- Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
- Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange