Sun TV Network is an Indian
mass media
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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 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
On air channels
SUN Group currently owns and operates 33 TV channels (25 SD + 8HD) across
Indian languages –
Tamil,
Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
,
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam wa ...
,
Kannada,
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
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and
Bengali.
Defunct channels
Film production
Sun Pictures
Sun Pictures is an Indian film distribution and production studio based in Chennai, India. It is a unit of Sun TV Network a part of the Sun Group. Founded in 2000, it started producing the TV film ''Siragugal
''Siragugal'' () is an Indi ...
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.
Television production company
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
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
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Sun Group
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Sun Pictures
Sun Pictures is an Indian film distribution and production studio based in Chennai, India. It is a unit of Sun TV Network a part of the Sun Group. Founded in 2000, it started producing the TV film ''Siragugal
''Siragugal'' () is an Indi ...
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Sun Kudumbam Awards
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Sunrisers Hyderabad
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Sun Direct
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Red FM,
Suryan FM
References
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Sun Group
1993 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Television networks in India
Television stations in Chennai
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Indian Premier League franchise owners
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Television broadcasting companies of India
Mass media companies of India
Broadcasting
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