Sun TV Network


Sun TV Network Limited is an Indian media company, headquartered in Chennai. It is a part of Sun Group and was established on 14 April 1993 by Kalanithi Maran. It owns a variety of television channels and radio stations in multiple languages. Its flagship channel is Sun TV.

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.

Television production company

Sun Entertainment is a television production company, which co-produces the daily soaps which are to be telecasted in their channels to hold the ip rights for future with themselves and also 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.

OTT Platform

Sun NXT is a global online audio/video streaming 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.

Owned channels

Sun TV Network currently owns and operates 36 TV channels across some Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Hindi.
ChannelLaunchedLanguageCategorySD/HD/4KNotes
Sun TV1993TamilGeneral EntertainmentSD+HD
KTV2001TamilMoviesSD+HD
Sun Music2004TamilMusicSD+HD
Sun News2000TamilNewsSD
Chutti TV2007TamilKidsSD
Adithya TV2009TamilComedySD
Sun Life2012TamilClassicSD
Gemini TV1995TeluguGeneral EntertainmentSD+HD
Gemini Movies2000TeluguMoviesSD+HDFormerly known as Teja TV
Gemini Music2005TeluguMusicSD+HD
Kushi TV2009TeluguKidsSD
Gemini Comedy2009TeluguComedySD
Gemini Life2012TeluguClassicSD
Udaya TV1994KannadaGeneral EntertainmentSD+HD
Udaya Movies2000KannadaMoviesSDFormerly known as Ushe TV and U2
Udaya Music2006KannadaMusicSD
Chintu TV2009KannadaKidsSD
Udaya Comedy2010KannadaComedySD
Surya TV1998MalayalamGeneral EntertainmentSD+HD
Surya Movies2005MalayalamMoviesSDFormerly known as Kiran TV
Kochu TV2011MalayalamKidsSD
Surya Music2013MalayalamMusicSD
Surya Comedy2017MalayalamComedySDFormerly known as Chirithira
Sun Bangla2019BengaliGeneral EntertainmentSD+HD
Sun Marathi2021MarathiGeneral EntertainmentSD+HD
Sun Neo2024HindiGeneral EntertainmentSD+HD

Defunct channels