KalanithiMaran

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KalanithiMaran
Born 1964[1] Tamilnadu India

Occupation

Entrepreneur

Known for

Founder of Sun Network

Net worth

US $ 4 billion (2010)

Spouse

Kaveri

Children

Kavya

KalanithiMaran (Tamil: ) is the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Network, which is the most profitable Television network in Tamil Nadu.[2][3] In June 2010, he acquired Spice Jet which is the most profitable [4] airlines in India.[5][6] While his television channels and newspapers are primarliy concentrated in South India, his FM radio stations, DTH service and Airlines are spread across the country.
Contents
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1 Early life 2 Business expansion

3 Family

2.1 Business entities

3.1 Dispute with Karunanidhi's family

4 External links 5 References

edit]Early life

Schooling at Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai[Madras]. In Loyola College, Chennai he became the students union chairman and led an agitation on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue [1].

Has an MBA from the University of Scranton. Returning to India in 1987, he worked for Kungumam Tamil Magazine owned by his family in the late 1980s.

edit]Business expansion

In 1990 he started a monthly video (VHS) news magazine in Tamil called Poomaalai which was stopped in 1992 due to piracy.

He founded Sun TV on April 14, 1993 with an investment of US $86,000 from a bank loan.[7][8]

His net worth reached $10 million by 1995. His net worth reached $100 million by 2000. His net worth reached $1 billion by 2005. By 2010, he was the 17th richest Indian with net worth of US$ 4 Billion .[9] He is the highest paid business man in India.[10] He has won Young Businessman awards from CNBC, ERNST & Young.[11] Prestigious USA based Forbes magazine named him the "Television king of southern India".[12]

He was among the few representatives at a roundtable with the visiting then U.S. President Bill Clinton.[13]

[edit]Business

Sun TV was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on April 24, 2006 upon raising $133 million.[14]

entities

Sun Network - South Indian Television Channels Sun Direct DTH - Direct to Home broadcasting Service. Spicejet - Airlines Suryan FM - Tamil Radio Red FM - MultiLingual Indian Radio Sun Pictures - Tamil Movie Production house Dinakaran - Tamil daily news paper Tamil Murasu - Tamil evening news paper

Kunkumam, Muthaaram, Vannathirai, KungumaChimizh - Tamil magazines

Sun 18 - to distribute its channels through cable, DTH, IPTV, HITS and MMDS.

edit]Family

He is the son of the Former Union Minister of commerce MurasoliMaran and the brother of India's textile minister DayanidhiMaran. His father's mother is the sister of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.He married Kaveri a Kannadiga in 1991 and has a daughter named Kavya (Born 1992)[2]. His wife is the Joint Managing Director of Sun network. He proved to be successful in spite of his father's political rivals ruling the state for most of the period since he entered the media business. He also emerged as No. 1 in neighboring states where his competitors include politicians and business men from those states.

[edit]Dispute with Karunanidhi's family

In May 2007 followers of Karunanidhi's son M K Azhagiri attacked Maran's newspaper office after a survey in the newspaper claimed people prefer M K Stalin over Azhagiri.[15] Later in Dec 2008 it was claimed that dispute between Maran and Karunanidhi Families was resolved.[16] However in 2010, a criminal case against KalanithiMaran [17] was filed by Azhagiri owned Cable TV distrubiton company Jak communications.
[18]

edit]External links

Sun TV Network QRZ Ham Radio Callsign Database - VU2PUG Forbes

edit]References
1. ^ http://www.ghallabhansali.com/admin/file/Kalanidhi%20Maran.pdf 2. ^ "From cable TV to aviation biz, Marans march continues".
Financialexpress.com. 2010-07-13. Retrieved 2010-08-08.

3. ^ "Sun, Zee remain top on profitability charts". Rediff.com. 2004-12-31.

Retrieved 2010-08-08.

4. ^ The Times Of
India. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5765676.cms.

5. ^ "New deal to take SpiceJet higher". Business-standard.com. 2010-0615. Retrieved 2010-08-08.

6. ^ "KalanidhiMaran buys 37.7 p.c. stake in SpiceJet". The Hindu. 201006-13. Retrieved 2010-08-08.

7. ^ Karmali, Naazneen (2009-11-30). "Strong Signal". Forbes.com.

Retrieved 2010-08-08.

8. ^ Rediff India Abroad, April 28, 2006 - KalanithiMaran: A 'Sunshine' story,

by SanjivShankaran and S. Bridget Leena in New Delhi

9. ^ "#17 KalanithiMaran". Forbes. 2010-09-29. 10. ^ "Newsmaker: KalanithiMaran". Business-standard.com. Retrieved

2010-08-08.

11. ^ "Welcome To Sun Network". Sunnetwork.org. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 12. ^ "#20 Kalanithi Mar". Forbes.com. 2009-11-18. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 13. ^ Chennai Best - Media Personalities - KalanidhiMaran 14. ^ Variety.com, Monday, April 24, 2006, 6:36pm PT - Sun TV shines on
Exchange

15. ^ http://ibnlive.in.com/news/warring-sons-cast-cloud-over-dmks-risingsun/40112-4-single.html

16. ^ http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/12/02/stories/2008120257690100.ht
m

17. ^ http://www.business-stand.com/india/news/sc-stays-criminalproceedings-against-kalanithi-maran/107862/on

18. ^ http://www.livechennai.com/detailnews.asp?newsid=1206
[hide]v d eSun Group Key people Telecommunications KalanithiMaran W. HansrajSaxena Sun Cable Vision Sun Direct DTH Sun 18 South

TamilSun TV KTV Sun Music Sun News Adithya TV Chutti TV Sun News English Sun Life Sun Acti

TeluguGemini TV Gemini Movies Gemini Music Gemini News Gemini Comedy Kushi TV Gemini Actio Television channels MalayalamSurya TV Kiran TV Kochu TV Surya News Surya Action KannadaUdaya TV Udaya Movies Udaya Music Udaya News Udaya Comedy Chintu TV Radio stations Publications Production Airlines Red FM 93.5 Suryan FM Dinakaran Tamil Murasu Kunkumam Sun Pictures SpiceJet

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Sun TV Network

Type

Private

Industry

Media, film production,distribution, telecommunication

Founded

1992

Headquarters

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Area served

27 countries including U.S.A, Canada, Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, Srilanka, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand

Key people

KalanidhiMaran

Products

Sun TV Dinakaran Suryan FM Red FM 93.5 Sun Pictures Sun Direct DTH

Spicejet

Website

Sun TV Network Web site

Sun TV Network is an Indian media company based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, part of Kal Media Services, Sun Group. It has been named as Asia Pacific & South Asia's most profitable media corporations and the largest TV network.[1] Established on April 14, 1992, it created and owns a variety of television channels and radio stations in multiple languages covering all Indian States. Its flagship channel is Sun TV which was the first fully privately owned Tamil channel in India when it emerged. The company is owned by KalanidhiMaran, who is the chairman and managing director who was recently awarded the CNBC Business Excellence Award in 2005. Sun Network had recently begun film distribution and production through Sun Pictures. In addition, is also provides direct-broadcast satellite under the service called Sun Direct DTH, a joint venture along with Astro.
Contents
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1 History and ownership 2 Products and operations

2.1 Televisio n channels

2.2 Print media

2.3 Radio stations

3 See also 4 References 5 External Links

edit]History and ownership

Sun Network was founded by KalanidhiMaran who is related to M. Karunanidhi, the ex- Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and head of the DravidaMunnetraKazhagam.

edit]Products and operations

channels

[edit]Television

Sun Network offers 20 television channels in four languages, generally targeting southern Indian viewers.
Television Channels Category Tamil Telugu Gemini TV Gemini Music Gemini Movies Gemini News Kannada Udaya TV Udaya Music Udaya Movies Udaya News Malayalam Surya TV Kiran TV -

Entertainment Channels Sun TV Music Channels Movie Channels News Channels Comedy Channels Kids Channels Sun Music KTV Sun News

Adithya TV Gemini Comedy Udaya Comedy Chutti TV Kushi TV Chintu TV Kochu TV Coming soon

up coming channels [2] 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. SURIYAN TV SUN NEWS ENGLISH SUN TV R1 SUN ACTION GEMINI ACTION SURYA ACTION SUN LIFE GEMINI LIFE SUN TV HD

10. KTV HD 11. SUN MUSIC HD 12. GEMINI HD

[edit]Print

media

Dinakaran - (Daily Morning Newspaper) Tamil Murasu - (Daily Evening Newspaper) Kungumam Mutharam Vannathirai KumgumaChimizh

[edit]Radio

stations

Sun Network owns two Radio brands: Suryan FM and for other territories than Tamil Nadu, Red FM. Sun is one of the largest Radio broadcasters in India.
SURYAN FM 93.5 MHZ Tamilnadu TAMIL Chennai Trichy Coimbatore Madurai Tirunelveli Tuticorin Puducherry

RED FM 93.5 MHZ State Kerela Andhra pradesh Karnataka Language 1 2 Trissur 3 Kannur Tirupati Mysore Nashik Kanpur 4 Kozhikode 5 Thiruvananthapuram Warangal 6

MALAYALAM Kochi TELUGU KANNADA

Rajamundry Hyderabad Bengaluru Mangalore

Vijayawada Vishakapatnam Gulbarga Nagpur Allahabad Bhubaneshwar -

Maharashtra HINDI /OTHER Aurangabad Pune Uttar pradesh Gujarat Madhya pradesh HINDI /OTHER Lucknow HINDI /OTHER Rajkot HINDI /OTHER Indore HINDI /OTHER Asansol HINDI /OTHER Gangtok with a 48.9% HINDI /OTHER New Delhi stake Varanasi Vadodara Bhopal

Ahmedabad Jabalpur Jaipur -

Jamshedpur Guwahati Siliguri Mumbai Shillong Kolkata

edit]See also

Sun Pictures Sun Direct DTH SpiceJet Sun Kudumbam Awards

edit]References
1. ^ http://www.rediff.com/money/2009/apr/24sun-zee-tv-top-profitabilitychart.htm

2. ^ Sun Networks new set of channels to be launched soon

[

edit]External Links
[show]v d eCable, satellite and other specialty television

http://www.dinakaran.co.in http://www.tamilmurasu.org http://www.sunnetwork.org/suryanfm/

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