03 Dec 07 Sun TV launches S FM Radio Channel in Pondicherry
Sun TV Network has informed the stock exchanges that the company has launched S FM, FM radio channel in Pondicherry. SUN TV Neywork is poised to be the Number 1 company in the FM radio business. It holds licences to start 45 FM Radio Stations across India. With the TV business stagnating in terms of growth, SUN TV hopes to make it big in the radio business.
05 Nov 07 Sun TV lauches S FM Radio at Lucknow and Bhopal
Sun TV Network has launched two new FM radio channels. The FM radio channels have been launched in Lucknow and Bhopal under the brand name S FM. SUN which is very dominant in South India has now started aggressively entering North India with FM radio channels. Sun TV has many more licences to start FM radio stations all over North India.
08 Oct 07 Raj TV to launch New Tamil News Channel
Raj Television Network Limited, commonly known as Raj TV, has informed the stock exchanges that it has obtained the required approvals from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to launch a New Tamil News Channel. The new Tamil News Channel launched by RAJ TV will be a 24*7 news channel and will compete with SUN NEWS which is owned by the SUN TV group. The concept of having a dedicated news channel for Tamil News doesn’t look too exciting, when you consider that SUN News itself is not very popular and in terms of revenue doesn’t even come close to that generated by SUN TV and K TV, the other SUN TV group channels. With the RAJ TV group enjoying political favour in Tamilnadu, lets wait and watch how successful Raj TV’s News Channel becomes. RAJ TV’s shareholders are a happy lot, with the share prices of RAJ TV moving up rapidly after the announcement about the new 24*7 news channel launch was made.
04 Jun 07 After Kalaignar TV, its Jai Hind TV
After the DMK, which was recently in the news for planning to launch Kalaignar TV, it now seems to be the turn of its central ally, Congress which proposes to launch Jai Hind TV. Congress is preparing to launch its own TV news channels, in various states and languages in co-ordination with a group of NRI investors. Jai Hind TV seems to be congress’ pilot project which will be launched in Kerala, in the malayalam language, ahead of next month’s Assembly elections. Later, congress plans to launch Jai Hind TV, in Kannada, Hindi, Telugu and Bengali. Are we witnessing a large scale politicisation of Indian media?
22 May 07 RAJ TV to launch Kalaignar TV named after Kalaignar Karunanidhi
Raj TV has been enjoying both the government patronage and also a steady rise of its share prices ever since the Maran family and the Karunanidhi family feud broke out. This week RAJ TV has announced that it will soon launch a new channel called Kalaignar TV. Kalaignar TV is the first of the 11 channels RAJ TV proposes to launch. The new channel, Kalaignar TV will be a news, current affairs and general entertainment channel. RAJ TV managing director Rajendran, denied that the new channel, Kalaignar TV, has anything to do with the DMK or M. Karunanidhi who is popularly known as Kalaignar (artist). “The name Kalaignar has nothing to do with the DMK or the government. We already had plans to launch 11 channels that have been approved by our board. The Karunanidhi link is a coincidence,” he said. Well, the whole of TN knows that this is not true. I don’t know why RAJ TV managing director Rajendran is denying the fact that RAJ TV is Pro DMK and is now taken the place of SUN TV as the DMK’s media vehicle and political mouthpiece. While RAJ TV is doing extremely well in the stock market, SUN TV’s shares have taken a beating. Any fan of contrarian investment concept would start picking up the SUN TV shares now. Afterall, SUN TV is still the most popular regional channel in south India, by a huge margin.
25 Apr 07 Sun TV Network launches Chutti TV : Chutti TV kids channel
Sun TV Network has announced that it is all set to launch a new channel called Chutti TV targetting tamil kids all over the world. Chutti TV will be the first of its kind 24 hours channel from the Sun TV Network targeting children in the age group 2 to 14, with regional and international flavour. Chutti TV will show popular cartoons like Tom & Jerry, He-Man and so on, but Chutti TV will show these cartoons in Tamil.
