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For the Canadian TV news channel, see Sun News Network.

Sun TV Network
Traded asBSE: 532733
NSE: SUNTV
IndustryMass media
Founded14 April 1992 (32 years ago) (1992-04-14)
Founder(s)Kalanithi Maran
HeadquartersChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Key people
Kalanithi Maran (Chairman)
Products
RevenueDecrease ₹3,388.03 crore (US$480 million) (2020-2021)[1]
Decrease ₹1,453.22 crore (US$200 million) (2020-2021)[1]
Increase ₹1,520.41 crore (US$210 million) (2020-2021)[1]
Total assetsIncrease ₹7,777.68 crore (US$1.1 billion) (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.

Owned Channels[edit]

On Air Channels[edit]

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/4K 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 Life 2013 Classic
Sun News 2000 News
Gemini TV 1995 Telugu General Entertainment SD+HD
Gemini Movies 2000 Movies
Gemini Music 2008 Music
Kushi TV 2009 Kids SD
Gemini Comedy 2010 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+4K
Surya Music 2014 Music
Kochu TV 2011 Kids
Surya Comedy 2017 Comedy
Sun Bangla 2019 Bengali General Entertainment
Sun Marathi 2021 Marathi

Defunct channels[edit]

Channel Launched Defunct Language Category SD/HD availability Notes
Sun Action 2006 2014 Tamil Movies SD Replaced by HD channels in 2016-2017
Gemini Action 2012 2014 Telugu
Gemini News 2005 2019 News Replaced by Sun Bangla
Udaya News 1999 2021 Kannada Replaced by Sun Marathi
Suriyan TV 2011 2017 Movies Replaced by HD channels in 2016-2017
Surya Action 2007 2014 Malayalam Replaced by Surya Comedy

Film production[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "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. ↑ 5.0 5.1 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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