Sun TV Network
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters | Chennai, Tamil Nadu,  India |
| Industry | DTH Pay TV |
| Products | Direct broadcast satellite |
| Website | www.sunnetwork.in |
Sun TV Network is a Rs 16000-crore (4 Billion $) 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 southern 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 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 ) and has recently forayed into the print business. In addition, it has also recently launched a DTH satellite television service entitled Sun Direct.
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[edit] 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:
Visit - http://www.SunNetwork.in/
[edit] TAMIL
- Sun TV - Tamil Entertainment Channel
- KTV - Tamil Movie Channel
- Sun Music - Tamil Music Channel
- Sun News - Tamil News Channel
- Chutti TV - Tamil Kids Channel
Although its main presence is in Tamil, it has channels in other languages also.
[edit] KANNADA
- 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)
[edit] TELUGU
- Gemini TV - Telugu Entertainment Channel
- Teja TV - Telugu Movie Channel
- Gemini Music -Telugu Music Channel
- Gemini News - Telugu News Channel
- Gemini Kids - Coming Soon
[edit] MALAYALAM
- Surya TV - Malayalam Entertainment Channel
- Kiran TV - Malayalam Music Channel
- Kochu TV - Malayalam Kids Channel(coming soon)
[edit] BENGALI
- Surjo TV - Channel Left
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
Visit http://www.sfm935.in/ to hear Chennai Suryan FM online
[edit] Tamil FM Stations
- Suryan FM - Chennai - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Coimbatore - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Madurai - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Pondicherry - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Tirunelveli - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Tuticorin - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Trichy - 94.5 MHz
[edit] Malayalam FM Stations
- S FM - Thiruvananthapuram - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Trissur - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Kannur - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Kozhikode - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Kochi - 93.5 MHz
[edit] Telugu FM Station
- S FM - Vishakapatnam - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Hyderabad - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Tirupati - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Vijayawada - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Rajamundry - 93.5 MHZ
- S FM - Warangal - 93.5 MHZ
[edit] Kannada FM Station
- S FM - Bangalore - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Mangalore - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Mysore - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Gulbarga - 93.5 MHz
[edit] Hindi / Other Language FM Station
- S FM - Jaipur - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Bhubaneshwar - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Lucknow - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Bhopal -93.5 MHz
- S FM - Indore - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Varanasi - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Kanpur - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Allahabad - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Jabalpur - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Guwahati - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Jamshedpur - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Vadodara - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Nagpur - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Nashik - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Rajkot - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Aurangabad - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Ahmedabad - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Asansol - 93.5 MHz
- S FM - Shillong - 93.5 MHz
- Red FM (India)
[edit] SUN DIRECT - DTH Service
- SUN DIRECT - (Sun Direct DTH Service) http://www.SunDirect.in/
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 .
- Sun Direct - India's youngest and most exciting state of the art DTH Company.
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.
[edit] Print Media
Tamil NewsPapers
- Dinakaran - (Daily Morning Newspaper) - http://www.dinakaran.co.in/
- Tamil Murasu - (Daily Evening Newspaper) - http://www.dinakaran.co.in/
Weekly Tamil Magazine
- Kungumum
- Mutharam
- Vannathirai
- Kumguma Chimizh
[edit] Location and Contact Address
SunTV Network Corporate Office
4, Norton Road,
Mandaveli, Chennai-28.
Tamil Nadu, India.
Phone No: 044-24648181
Fax: 044-24648282
[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 [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.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Sun Direct Website
- S FM Website
- Indian Express Article
- Daily News and Analysis Article
- Television Point Article
[edit] Other links
- Sun Direct DTH blog
- Sun Direct DTH News Blog
- Channels on INSAT 4B (Sun Direct & DD Direct +)
- Sun Direct Channel Via Lyngsat
- Sun Direct Via Lyngsat Sorted by SID
