Wikipedia kalanithi maran biography
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Sun Group
Indian media conglomerate
For the Vietnamese company, see Sun Group (Vietnam).
Sun Group is an Indian media conglomerate, based in Chennai.[1][2] It was founded by Kalanithi Maran in 1992.[3] The Sun Group, besides television media, operates 48 FM radio stations,[4] two daily newspapers, five magazines, a DTH satellite service and T20 cricket franchises.
Subsidiaries
[edit]Television
[edit]In 1990, Kalanithi Maran started a monthly video (VHS) news magazine in Tamil called Poomaalai. Sun TV is the first and flagship channel of the group started on 14 April 1993.[5][6][7][8] Sun TV was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on 24 April 2006 upon raising $133 million.[9] Sun Group owns Sun TV Network's 37 TV Channels across four South Indian languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and the company's first step of TV Channel segment in North India is Bengali language and in the Marathi language the company launched TV Channel on 17 October 2021, the Group's second step of TV channel segment in North India.
DTH and Cable Provider
[edit]Sun Direct is a DTH service provider established in December 2007.[10][11] Sun Direct is the fourth larges
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Karunanidhi family
Indian political family in Tamil Nadu
The Karunanidhi family are an Indian political family who have had considerable influence in the politics and cinema of Tamil Nadu. The most notable member of the family was M. Karunanidhi who was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for five terms and was the DMK party leader from 1969 till 2018.
Karunanidhi's grandnephew Dayanidhi Maran has been the union cabinet minister for two terms, once as a Minister of Information and Technology and once as a Minister of Textiles. One of Karunanidhi's sons, M. K. Stalin, is the 7th and current chief minister of Tamil Nadu, has been a five-time MLA in Tamil Nadu Legislative assembly and a one-time deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu; another son, M. K. Alagiri, was the Minister of Chemicals in the central cabinet and also the co-ordinator for South Tamil Nadu for DMK. His daughter Kanimozhi is a Member of the Parliament in Lok Sabha. His grandnephew Kalanidhi Maran is the owner of the Sun Network, the second largest TV network in India and also Sun Pictures, a Tamil movie production company. The fourth generation of the family comprising Arivunithi, Dayanidhi Azhagiri, Udhayanidhi Stalin, Member of Legislative assembly and Arulnithi are involved in the Tamil cinema industry.
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Kalanidhi Maran
Alma mater
Loyola College, Chennai
University help Scranton
Spouse(s)
Kavery Kalanithi
Kalanithi Maran (born 24 July 1965) assignment an Soldier media king who crack the chair and author of rendering Sun Group.[2][3][4] He owns television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM Wireless stations, Facility services limit a silent picture production dwelling. He further held a major vote in interpretation Indian airway Spice Plane from 2010 to 2015.[5][6][7]
Career[]
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