Sun TV Network

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Sun TV Network
Company type Public
BSE:  532733
NSE:  SUNTV
Industry Media conglomerate
Founded14 April 1993;32 years ago (1993-04-14)
Founder Kalanithi Maran
Headquarters Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Key people
 Kalanithi Maran (Chairman)
Products
RevenueIncrease2.svg₹4,282.10 crore (US$510 million) (FY24) [1]
Increase2.svg₹2,613.11 crore (US$310 million) (FY24) [1]
Increase2.svg₹1,925.8 crore (US$230 million) (FY24) [1]
Total assets Increase2.svg₹11,420.95 crore (US$1.4 billion) (2024) [2]
Number of employees
1,048 (2024) [2]
Parent Sun Group
Website www.suntv.in
www.sunnetwork.in

Sun TV Network Limited is an Indian media company, headquartered in Chennai. It is a part of Sun Group and was established on 14 April 1993 by Kalanithi Maran. It owns a variety of television channels and radio stations in multiple languages. Its flagship channel is Sun TV.[ citation needed ] It promotes Tamil's to Fight for Tamil nation.

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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 Rajinikanth starrer Enthiran . It has distributed more than 20 Tamil films starting from Kadhalil Vizhunthen , and now producing many big budget movies. [3]

Television production company

Sun Entertainment is a television production company, which co-produces the daily soaps which are to be telecasted in their channels to hold the ip rights for future with themselves and also 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. [4]

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 its TV channels. [3]

Owned channels

Sun TV Network currently owns and operates 36 TV channels (25 SD + 11 HD) across some Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Hindi.

ChannelLaunchedLanguageCategorySD/HD/4KNotes
Sun TV 1993 Tamil General EntertainmentSD+HD
KTV 2001Movies
Sun Music 2004Music
Sun News 2000NewsSD
Chutti TV 2007Kids
Adithya TV 2009Comedy
Sun Life 2012Classic
Gemini TV 1995 Telugu General EntertainmentSD+HD
Gemini Movies 2000MoviesFormerly known as Teja TV
Gemini Music 2005Music
Kushi TV 2009KidsSD
Gemini Comedy Comedy
Gemini Life 2012Classic
Udaya TV 1994 Kannada General EntertainmentSD+HD
Udaya Movies2000MoviesSDFormerly known as Ushe TV and U2
Udaya Music2006Music
Chintu TV2009Kids
Udaya Comedy2010Comedy
Surya TV 1998 Malayalam General EntertainmentSD+HD
Surya Movies 2017MoviesSDFormerly known as Kiran TV
Kochu TV 2011Kids
Surya Music2013Music
Surya Comedy2017Comedy
Sun Bangla 2019 Bengali General EntertainmentSD+HD
Sun Marathi2021 Marathi
Sun NEO2024 Hindi

Defunct channels

ChannelLaunchedDefunctLanguageCategorySD/HD/4KNotesSource(s)
Sun Action20122017 Tamil MoviesSDReplaced by Gemini Music HD[ citation needed ]
Gemini Action20122017 Telugu SDReplaced by Gemini Movies HD[ citation needed ]
Gemini News 20042019NewsReplaced by Sun Bangla [5]
Suriyan TV20122017 Kannada MoviesSDReplaced by Udaya TV HD[ citation needed ]
Udaya News 20042019NewsReplaced by Sun Marathi [6]
Kiran TV20052017 Malayalam MoviesSDReplaced by Surya Movies [ citation needed ]
Surya Action20122017Replaced by Surya Comedy [ citation needed ]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sun TV's PAT increases by 9 per cent in Q4 FY24". The Hindu Businessline. 24 May 2024. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Annual Report 2024" (PDF). Sun TV Network. 25 June 2024. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. ↑ "Don't miss out on the ultimate entertainment experience - switch to Sun Network today. | www.sunnetwork.in". www.sunnetwork.in. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  5. ↑ iromero (6 October 2023). "The Gemini South Maintenance Shutdown". Gemini Observatory. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  6. ↑ Staff, T. N. M. (25 August 2017). "After 19 years, Sun TV to shut down Udaya News over insurmountable losses". The News Minute. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
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