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University of Scranton. Loyola College.
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Kalanithi Maran
Edit Profilechairman director of Sun Group
Career
He owns television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM radio stations, DTH services and a movie production house. He also held a major share in the Indian airline Spice Jet from 2010 to 2015. In 1990, Maran started a monthly video (VHS) news magazine in Tamil called Poomaala1657 which was stopped in 1992.
On 14 April 1993, he founded Sun television with an investment of United States$86,000 from a bank loan.
Sun television was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on 24 April 2006 upon raising $133 million for 10% of the share capital and catapulting him into the billionaire charts. He was among the few representatives at a roundtable with the visiting then United States President Bill Clinton.
By 2010, he was the 17th richest Indian with Netto worth of United States$4 Billion, and was the highest paid business man in India. Business entities
Sun Network – South Indian Television Channels
Sun Direct DTH – Direct to Home broadcasting Service
Suryan FM – Tamil Radio
Red FM – MultiLingual Indian Radio
Sun Cable Vision and Sumangli Cable - Cable tv distribution
Sun Pictures – Tamil Movie Production house
Dinakaran – Tamil daily news paper
Tamil Murasu – Tamil evening news papers
Kunkumam, Muthaaram, Vannathirai, Kunguma Chimizh – Tamil magazines
Sun 18 – to distribute its channels through cable, DTH, IPTV, HITS and MMDSk
Sunrisers HyderabadIPL team
Later in 2008, the dispute between Maran and Karunanidhi families was resolved.
In a status report to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on telecom, China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations said mala fide considerations and an "illegal gratification" of ₹550 crore (United States$82 million) were behind the "active intervention" of Dayanidhi in curbing the business interests of Aircel"s former owner C Sivasankaran.
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