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Sun TV Network
Company typePublic
BSE: 532733
NSE: SUNTV
IndustryMass media
Founded14 April 1992 (32 years ago) (1992-04-14)
FounderKalanithi Maran
HeadquartersChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Key people
Kalanithi Maran (Chairman)
Products
RevenueDecrease ₹3,388.03 crore (US$400 million) (2020-2021)[1]
Decrease ₹1,453.22 crore (US$170 million) (2020-2021)[1]
Increase ₹1,520.41 crore (US$180 million) (2020-2021)[1]
Total assetsIncrease ₹7,777.68 crore (US$910 million) (2019-2020)[1]
Number of employees
1,352 (2021)[1]
ParentSUN Group
Websitewww.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.[citation needed]

Owned channels

On air channels

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

Channel Launched Language Category SD/HD availability
Sun TV 1993 Tamil General Entertainment SD & HD
KTV 2001 Movies
Sun Music 2004 Music
Chutti TV 2007 Kids SD
Adithya TV 2009 Comedy
Sun News 2000 News
Sun Life 2013 Classic
Gemini TV 1995 Telugu General Entertainment SD & HD
Gemini Movies 2000 Movies
Gemini Music 2008 Music
Kushi TV 2009 Kids SD
Gemini Comedy 2009 Comedy
Gemini Life 2013 Classic
Udaya TV 1994 Kannada General Entertainment SD & HD
Udaya Movies 2000 Movies SD
Udaya Music 2006 Music
Chintu TV 2009 Kids
Udaya Comedy 2010 Comedy
Surya TV 1998 Malayalam General Entertainment SD & HD
Surya Movies 2004 Movies SD
Surya Music 2014 Music
Kochu TV 2011 Kids
Surya Comedy 2017 Comedy
Sun Bangla 2019 Bengali General Entertainment SD
Sun Marathi 2021 Marathi General Entertainment SD

Defunct channels

Channel Launched Defunct Language Category SD/HD availability Notes
Sun Action Tamil Movies SD Replaced by Gemini Music HD
Gemini Action Telugu Replaced by Gemini Movies HD
Gemini News News Replaced by Sun Bangla
Udaya News Kannada Replaced by Sun Marathi
Suriyan TV Movies Replaced by Udaya TV HD
Surya Action Malayalam Replaced by Surya Comedy
Kiran TV Movies SD Replaced by Surya Movies

Upcoming Channels

Film production

Sun Pictures is a film production and distribution company established in 2000. It is a part of Sun TV Network. It has 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.[4][5]

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

Main article: Sun NXT

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 its TV channels.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "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 bails out Endhiran". Behindwoods.com. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  5. ^ 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.
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