Biography of Kalanithi Maran

Kalanithi Maran, born 1965, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Network, No. 1 media company in South Asia and Asia Pacific Region 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 and started his career with monthly news video called Poomaalai which was circulated among Tamil Nadu public thru video lending library. He is a son of the Late leader Murasoli Maran and a grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi, and the brother of Dayanidhi Maran, India's ex-Minister for Communications and Information Technology & the current textiles minister.

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. He was India's 20th richest person ranked by Forbes.

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.

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 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
Tamil

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)

Malayalam
SuryaTV
KiranTV
Telugu

GeminiTV
TejaTV
Gemini News
Kushi TV
Navvula Tera
Gemini Music
Gemini Cable Vision(comedy channel)

Kannada
UdayaTV
Ushe TV(COMEDY)
Udaya2
Udaya Movies
Udaya Varthegalu
Chintu TV

FM stations
SFM
S FM was re branded as RED FM across 38 cities in INDIA on 14 August 2009.

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

Telugu
SFM(Visakha)- Vishakapatinam(Vizag) - 93.5 MHz
SFM Hyderabad - 93.5 MHz
SFM Tirupathi - 93.5 MHz
SFM Rajahmandry - 93.5 MHz
SFM Warangal - 93.5 MHz
SFM Vijayawada(Bejawada) - 93.5 MHz

Kannada
SFM Bangalore - 93.5 SFM-MYSORE
SFM-MANGALORE MHz

Hindi
SFM Bhubaneshwar - 93.5 MHz
SFM Jaipur - 93.5 MHz
SFM Indore - 93.5 MHZ
SFM Pune - 93.5 MHz (Now Red FM)
Shareholder of
Red FM (India)

Print Media

Tamil
Dinakaran - (morning daily)
Tamil Murasu - (evening daily)
Kungumam
Mutharam
Vannathirai
Kunguma Chimizh

by,
Anand kumar Pandey
pgdm sec-a
3rd sem