Sun TV Network
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| Public (: , : SUNTV) | |
| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Founder | Kalanidhi Maran |
| Headquarters | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
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Key people
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Kalanidhi Maran (Chairman) K. Vijaykumar (CEO and MD) |
| Products | Broadcasting |
| Revenue | ₹23.95 billion (US$360 million) (2015) |
| ₹7.82 billion (US$120 million) (2015) | |
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Number of employees
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2,005 (2015) |
| Parent | Sun Group |
| Website |
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Sun TV Network Limited is an Indian mass media company headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a part of Sun Group and is Asia's largest TV network. Established on 13 April 1993 by Kalanidhi Maran, it owns a variety of television channels and radio stations in multiple languages. Its flagship channel is Sun TV, which was the first fully privately owned Tamil channel in India. Sun Group owns Hyderabad-based IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad since 2012.
Sun Group owns 34 TV Channels across four South Indian languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
Sun Group owns two daily newspapers and five magazines in Tamil. Dinakaran was founded in 1977 by K. P. Kandasamy and was acquired from K. P. K. Kumaran by Sun Network in 2005. It is the second largest circulated Tamil daily in India after Dina Thanthi. Tamil Murasu is an evening newspaper. The group owns magazines Kungumam, Kumguma Chimizh, Kungumam Thozhi, Aanmigam, Mutharam and Vannathirai.
The group owns 48 FM radio stations across India broadcasting under the names Suryan FM and Red FM.
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