Sun Group is a business conglomerate, which is based in Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

, India. The group is founded by the DMK Chief Dr

Doctor (title)

Doctor, as a title, originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre . It has been used as an honored academic title for over a millennium in Europe, where it dates back to the rise of the university. This use spread...

. Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi and now owned and headed by Indian billionaire Kalanithi Maran and his family members including his wife Kaveri Maran. In a short span, Sun Group's Sun TV Network has become one of the largest media networks of India. It also entered the aviation business with Spicejet

SpiceJet

SpiceJet is a low-cost airline headquartered in Gurgaon, India. It began service in May 2005 and by 2008, it was India's second-largest low-cost airline in terms of market share. SpiceJet was voted as the best low-cost airline in South Asia and Central Asia region by Skytrax in...

.

Sun Group is divided in two holdings: Kal Media Services Pvt. Ltd. and Kal Airways Pvt. Ltd.. While Kal Media Services manages the TV, Radio, Newspaper and Magazine business, Kal Airways focuses on the development of its airline Spicejet.

Divisions

Kal Media Services Pvt. Ltd.

Following segments are part of Sun TV Network:

21 TV Channels across South India

South India

South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area...

n languages

45 Radio stations across all India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

2 daily newspapers in Tamil language

4 weekly magazines in Tamil language

Sun Pictures

Sun Pictures

Sun Pictures is a film distribution and production studio unit of Chennai, based Sun Network owned by Kalanidhi Maran. Founded in 2008, it started distributing low-budget Tamil-language films, Kadhalil Vizhunthen being the first, and holds the credit of producing India's costliest film Enthiran...

, a leading film production and distribution company

Sun Direct, one of India's leading DTH companies, also first to carry HD channels in India.

Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV)

Sun Cable Vision

Sun Cable Vision is one of India's largest Multi System Operators with presence in most of the cities in Tamil Nadu including Chennai and Coimbatore....

 - Multi System Operators (MSO).

Sun 18 south - to distribute its channels.


Kal Airways Pvt. Ltd.

Spicejet

SpiceJet

SpiceJet is a low-cost airline headquartered in Gurgaon, India. It began service in May 2005 and by 2008, it was India's second-largest low-cost airline in terms of market share. SpiceJet was voted as the best low-cost airline in South Asia and Central Asia region by Skytrax in...

Board

• Kalanidhi Maran (Chairman and Managing director)
• Kaveri Maran (Joint Managing Director)

• M K Harinarayanan (Director)
• Nicholas Martin Paul (Director)
• S Selvam (Director)
• S Sridharan (Director)
• J Ravindran (Director)

• Tony D'Silva (CEO of Sun Group)
• K. Vijay Kumar (CEO of Sun TV Network)
• Sembian Sivakumar (COO of Sun Pictures)
• R. Mahesh Kumar (CEO of Sun Direct)
• Neil Mills (CEO of Spicejet)
• Sanjay Reddy (Head of Andhra Pradesh segment)
• L. V. Navaneeth (Vice-president)
• R. Ravi (Company Secretary & Compliance Officer)
• S. Kannan (Chief Technical Officer)
• V.C. Unnikrishnan (Chief Financial Officer)