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.[citation needed]
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 Sun Network headquarters | |
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| BSE: 532733 NSE: SUNTV | |
| Industry | Media conglomerate |
| Founded | 14 April 1993 |
| Founder | Kalanithi Maran |
| Headquarters | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Key people | Kalanithi Maran (Chairman) |
| Products | |
| Revenue |  ₹3,772 crore (US$450 million) (FY23)[1] |
| ₹2,392 crore (US$290 million) (FY23)[1] | |
| ₹1,707 crore (US$200 million) (FY23)[1] | |
| Total assets | ₹7,777.68 crore (US$930 million) (2019)[2] |
Number of employees | 1,451 (2023)[2] |
| Parent | Sun Group |
| Website | www www |
Owned channels
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
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.[4]
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