Kalanidhi Maran
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Kalanidhi Maran (1963) is the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Network which owns television channels (including the Tamil-language channel Sun TV), FM radio stations and newspapers in South India. He is the son of deceased leader Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi.He is the brother of Dayanidhi Maran, India's Minister for Communications and Information Technology. He got into the business at the age of 27 when satellite broadcasting took off in the early 1990[1] and started his career with freelance video album Poomalai in tamil.
He is recipient of the International Young Business Achiever award in 1999 (from the Worldcom group, New York), Kalanidhi Maran was also among the few representatives (of India's future in business) at the round table with the visiting U.S. President Bill Clinton.[2] He was india's # 20th richest person ranked by Forbes.[3]
Sun TV was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Apr. 24, 2006, with 10% of the shares widely held and 90% still owned by Maran.[4]
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[edit] TV channels
- SunTV Tamil,
- KTV Tamil,
- Sun Music Tamil,
- Sun News Tamil,
- Chutti TV,
- SuryaTV,
- KiranTV,
- GeminiTV,
- TejaTV,
- AdithyaTV,
- Teja News,
- Gemini News,
- Gemini Music,
- Gemini Cable Vision,
- UdayaTV,
- UsheTV,
- Udaya2,
- Udaya Movies,
- Udaya Varthegalu & Udaya News.
[edit] FM stations
- Suryan FM - Chennai - 93.5 MHz Tamil,
- Suryan FM - Coimbatore - 93.5 MHz Tamil,
- Suryan FM - Tirunelveli - 93.5 MHz Tamil,
- Visakha FM - Vishakapatinam - 105.6 MHz
- SFM Bangalore - 93.5 MHz
- SFM Hyderabad - 93.5 MHz
- SFM Jaipur - 93.5 MHZ
[edit] External links
- Homepage of Mr. Kalanidhi Maran retrieved on 11 Feb 2007.
- Homepage of Sun Network retrieved on 11 Feb 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ Rediff India Abroad, April 28, 2006 - Kalanidhi Maran: A 'Sunshine' story, by Sanjiv Shankaran & S Bridget Leena in New Delhi
- ^ Chennai Best - Media Personalities - Kalanidhi Maran
- ^ India's 40 Richest by Forbes - #20 Kalanithi Maran
- ^ Variety.com, Monday, April 24, 2006, 6:36pm PT - Sun TV shines on Exchange
