Sun TV Network explained

Sun TV Network
Type:Public
Traded As:
Industry:Media conglomerate
Founder:Kalanithi Maran
Location:Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Key People:Kalanithi Maran (Chairman)
Revenue: (FY23)
Operating Income: (FY23)
Net Income: (FY23)[1]
Assets: (2019)[2]
Num Employees:1,451 (2023)
Parent:Sun Group
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Sun TV Network Limited is an Indian Media conglomerate company headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a part of Sun Group and is one of Asia's largest TV networks. Established on 14 April 1993 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

See main article: List of channels owned by Sun TV Network.

Sun TV owns 37 television channels across 7 different languages. 34 out of these 37 are in South Indian languages i.e. Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, as Sun TV network is a South-India based network. It expanded its reached towards other regions by launching GEC channels in Marathi, Bengali and Hindi languages.

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] [4]

Television production company

Sun Pictures is a 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.[5]

OTT Platform

See 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.

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Sun TV Q4 net profit down 7% to ₹380 crore . 17 July 2023 . The Hindu Businessline . 20 May 2023 . en.
  2. Web site: Sun TV Network Profit & Loss . Sun TV Network . 30 October 2017 . 23 February 2019.
  3. Web site: Sun TV bails out Endhiran. 28 November 2015. Behindwoods.com.
  4. News: Narasimhan. T. E.. 2020-11-13. Sun TV to invest around Rs 600 cr in movies and content for OTT platform. Business Standard India. 2020-12-07.
  5. Web site: Don't miss out on the ultimate entertainment experience - switch to Sun Network today. www.sunnetwork.in . 2023-10-29 . www.sunnetwork.in.