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Kalanithi Maran, born 1965, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Network ,No 1 media company in South Asia and Asia Pacific Region [1]) which owns television channels, FM radio stations, and newspapers in South India. He got into the business at the age of 27, when satellite broadcasting took off in the early 1990s[1] and started his career with monthly news video called Poomaalai which was circulated among Tamil nadu public thru video lending library. He is the son of the Late leader Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi, and the brother of Dayanidhi Maran, India's ex-Minister for Communications and Information Technology.
He was a 1999 recipient of the International Young Business Achiever award from the Worldcom group, New York. Kalanithi Maran was also among the few representatives at a roundtable with 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 April 24, 2006, with 10% of the shares widely held and 90% still owned by Maran.[4]
Maran entered the prestigious Forbes list of billionaires in 2007. He is now ranked 349th in the world.
Early life
- Schooling at Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai.
- Graduate of Loyola College, Chennai.
- Received MBA from the University of Scranton.
- Amateur Radio Operator - Callsign is VU2PUG.
- He was Working for Kunkumam in the late 1980s.
- Started own monthly video newsmagazine, Poomaalai, in 1990.
- Founded SunTV on April 14, 1993.
TV channels
- Sun TV
- KTV
- Sun Music
- Sun News
- Chutti TV
- Comedy Thirai (available only in Sun DTH)
- Adithya TV (another channel for comedy - available to Cable TV's also)
- SuryaTV
- KiranTV
- GeminiTV
- TejaTV
- AdithyaTV
- Teja News
- Gemini News
- Gemini Music
- Gemini Cable Vision
- UdayaTV
- UsheTV
- Udaya2
- Udaya Movies
- Udaya Varthegalu
- Udaya News
FM stations
Tamil
- Suryan FM - Chennai - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Coimbatore - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Tirunelveli - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Tiruchirappalli - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Madurai - 93.5 MHz
- Suryan FM - Pondicherry - 93.5 MHz
- Visakha FM - Vishakapatinam - 105.6 MHz
- SFM Hyderabad - 93.5 MHz
- SFM Tirupathi - 93.5 MHz
- SFM Bangalore - 93.5 MHz
- SFM Bhubaneshwar - 93.5 MHz
- SFM Jaipur - 93.5 MHz
- SFM Indore - 93.5 MHZ
Shareholder of
Print Media
Tamil
- Dinakaran - (morning daily)
- Tamil Murasu - (evening daily)
- Kungumam
- Mutharam
- Vannathirai
- Kunguma Chimizh
See also
External links
- Homepage of Mr. Kalanidhi Maran retrieved on 11 Feb 2007.
- Homepage of Sun Network retrieved on 11 Feb 2007.
- Famous Hams From All Walks Of Life
- QRZ Ham Radio Callsign Database - VU2PUG
References
- ^ Rediff India Abroad, April 28, 2006 - Kalanithi Maran: A 'Sunshine' story, by Sanjiv Shankaran and 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